Winter 2012 > Upcoming Events

Greetings from the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations!

In this Winter edition of our eNewsletter you will find information about upcoming sponsored and co-sponsored Burkle Center events for the winter quarter, recent news, podcasts, and other announcements.

As a supporter of the Burkle Center, your attendance at our events and your feedback are invaluable. We encourage you to stay engaged and involved!

Best Wishes,
The Burkle Center Staff

Recent News

The Burkle Center and the Center for the Study of Women come out to support Angelina Jolie's new film.

We are proud to welcome our 2011-12 interns to the Burkle Center! This year we are fortunate to have 11 undergraduate student interns working with us to build our outreach and programming initiatives:

Taylor Braun
Bret Johnson
Carmel Lev
Andra Lim
Daniel Melling
Caroline Nguyen
Diane Nguyen
Trisha Parikh
Lilia Rizk
James Walker
Sara Weiss

Burkle Center program provides experience, personal development and global education

We are proud to announce the launch of the new student online magazine, The Generation, an international relations journal designed to provide student perspectives on matters of international concern. It is published in collaboration with the UCLA Undergraduate International Relations Society (UIRS). The Generation is edited by an undergraduate and graduate editorial interns. We are pleased to welcome the following students to this year's editorial team:

Shadee Ashtari
Rachael Cameron
Jennifer Ching
Reza Hessabi
Brad Rowe
David Taylor

For more information, to contact the editorial team and for students to submit articles, click here.

Support Us

Please consider supporting the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. Click below to learn about opportunities for support and engagement.

SAVE THE DATES:

Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture: SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL

Thursday, March 1, 2012
5:00 pm, Schoenberg Music Hall

REGISTRATION OPENS ON JANUARY 23, 2012 AT 12PM ON THE BURKLE CENTER WEBSITE

Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture:
DAVID REMNICK

Monday, January 30, 2012
5:00 pm, Korn Convocation Hall Anderson School of Management

About the Speaker: David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker since July 1998, began his reporting career at The Washington Post in 1982.  He is the author of several books, including The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, King of the World, Resurrection, and Lenin’s Tomb, for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism.  He became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1992 and has since written over a hundred pieces for the magazine.  Since Remnick became editor, The New Yorker has won thirty National Magazine Awards. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. WE ENCOURAGE YOU JOIN THE STANDBY LINE ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. ALL AVAILABLE SEATS WILL BE RELEASED AT 4:50 PM

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
12:00 pm, UCLA Bunche Hall, room 10383

"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination," a talk by Barry Sanders, UCLA Dept. of Communication Studies
Since September 11, 2001, the extensive literature on the United States’ image abroad, by popular pundits and academics alike, leaves the reader with a false impression that foreigners’ views of America are normally negative and impervious to change. In fact they are complex, emotional, frequently internally contradictory, and often change quickly. Barry A. Sanders corrects this misimpression with a rigorous and insightful textual analysis of the roots of people’s views of the United States and what can be done to alter them. General admission is on a space available basis. This event is open to the public.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
4:00 pm, UCLA Bunche Hall, room 4357

"The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West," a talk by Mitchell Silber, NYPD's Intelligence Division
Please join us for a talk by Mitchell Silber from the New York City Police Department Intelligence Division about his new book The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West. This lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. General admission is on a space available basis. This event is open to the public. RSVP here

Thursday, January 19, 2012
12:15 PM, UCLA School of Law, room 1457

"The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics," a talk by Kathryn Sikkink, University of Minnesota
Please join us for a talk by Prof. Kathryn Sikkink from the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, about her new book The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics. This lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA International Human Rights Law Program. General admission is on a space available basis. This event is open to the public. RSVP here

Tuesday, January 24, 2012
12:00 pm, UCLA Bunche Hall, room 10383

"The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square," a talk by Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations
Please join us for a talk by Steven Cook from the Council on Foreign Relations about his new book The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies & the Center for Middle East Development. General admission is on a space available basis. This event is open to the public. RSVP here

Conference

NIXON IN CHINA:
A LEGACY REVISITED

Thursday, February 23, 2012
10:30 am UCLA James West Alumni Center
Click here for more details.

This conference is co-sponsored with the Center for Chinese Studies. Registration opens at 12:00 pm on January 17 on the Burkle Center website.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
This conference will commemorate the 40th anniversary of President Nixon's historic visit to Beijing and Shanghai and his meetings with Chairman Mao. This visit was an electrifying event at the time, and had enormous repercussions in the ensuing decades for US-China relations and for the international order generally. The conference will assess both elements: the significance for domestic and international politics in the 1970s as well as the enduring legacies for our world today. We will seek to answer important questions such as assessing the evolution of US-China relations and whether Nixon's visit and the subsequent normalization of relationships influenced future developments; we will also explore the legacy of the summit and the status of current and future US-China relations.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Richard Solomon, President of the United States Institute of Peace, will be our keynote speaker. He will be interviewed by James Mann, author-in-residence at the Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Other conference participants include Richard Baum, Professor Emeritus of Chinese politics at UCLA; Burkle Center Senior Fellow Gen. Wesley Clark (ret.); Cornell University's Chair of History for US China Relations, Chen Jian; New America Foundation Senior Research Fellow Tim Naftali; Minxin Pei, Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College and Susan Shirk, Director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

Announcements

The application deadline
is Fri, March 30.
Click here for more details.

The Burkle Center seeks proposals for faculty research working groups and faculty research projects for academic year 2012-13. Proposed themes must address a topic or topics related to globalization, international relations, U.S. foreign policy, or issues of international cooperation and conflict.

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