Asia News Archive

He Brings International Issues to Public's Attention

In his new post at the Burkle Center, Raustiala said he will take advantage of UCLA's West Coast setting to "focus on areas where we can really move the debate forward," including Latin America and the Pacific Rim, while still "covering the waterfront of international relations."
Posted: 2/7/2007

Lost in Translation? It's the L.A. Way

Three students, under the aegis of the Center for World Languages, part of the International Institute, launched a monthly online journal that celebrates L.A. and its astonishing linguistic diversity.
Posted: 2/7/2007

UCLA's Buswell Elected 1st Koreanist to Lead Asian Studies

In 2008, Robert Buswell will become president of the Association for Asian Studies, the largest group of its kind. It's a breakthrough for UCLA and Korean studies alike and may owe to the unusually wide expertise of this one-time Buddhist monk.
Posted: 2/7/2007

Webzine Covers Language in L.A.

With student-interns as reporters, the UCLA Center for World Languages launches an online magazine devoted to the city's linguistic diversity.
Posted: 2/1/2007

Surprised, Again, by Dutch Voters

A visiting historian and a UCLA political scientist analyze November's inconclusive election in the Netherlands.
Posted: 12/15/2006

UCLA Receives Grant to Develop Heritage Classes

New UCLA Language Resource Center offers specialized instruction for students with background in a language
Posted: 12/11/2006

Welfare Fails to Save the World

"Whether or not there was a time for foreign aid, it is an idea whose time has gone," argues UCLA economist Deepak Lal in The Australian.
Posted: 12/4/2006

UCLA Center Launches National Effort to Understand, Educate 'Heritage' Speakers

With a new National Language Resource Center, the federal government is recognizing that the preservation of U.S. language communities will not be accomplished with approaches aimed at monolingual Americans.
Posted: 11/29/2006

Professor Wins Top French Literary Prize with Congolese Fable

Alain Mabanckou, a visiting professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies, won the annual prize for his best-selling novel, "Mémoires de porc-épic" ("Memoirs of a Porcupine").
Posted: 11/27/2006

Unknown Voices from Argentina

Photographer Patrick Liotta and Mapuche Indian performer Beatriz Pichi Malen tell of the Mapuche people's bravery and determination in confronting wars, poverty, and domination by various groups.
Posted: 11/17/2006

Report Gives Insight into International Enrollment

Though numbers have been declining since 2002-2003, a downward trend may be ending.
Posted: 11/16/2006

The Aesthetics of 'Bijin'

USC scholar discusses a Japanese notion of beauty and its artistic representation in Meiji period paintings.
Posted: 11/15/2006

Dershowitz Shifts Focus to World Outside Israel

In talk co-sponsored by CNES, the Harvard professor and author argues "obsessive" focus on Israel takes time and energy away from the protest of other more serious human rights violations perpetrated by other countries.
Posted: 11/9/2006

Democracy's No Panacea for Poverty, Study Finds

Michael Ross, a UCLA political scientist, concluded that democratic countries do no better than their non-democratic counterparts in helping the world's poorest citizens -- a troubling finding, he said, that contradicts the claims made by a generation of scholars.
Posted: 11/8/2006