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Changing notions of identity and place in Central Asia
A May 2013 graduate research panel organized by the Asia Institute's Program on Central Asia explored the changing dynamics of identity and place in the region. The interdisciplinary session saw presentations by a linguist, an anthropologist and a geographer, respectively.
Posted: 5/23/2013
Mostafa Sho‘aiyan: The Forgotten Revolutionary and the Possibility of Unified Action
A lecture in Persian by Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria
Posted: 5/21/2013
Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period
A lecture by Michael Cooperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
Posted: 5/17/2013
Singing, Chanting, and Chatter: Street Sounds and Songs of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
A lecture by Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University
Posted: 5/16/2013
In Memoriam: Andrzej Korbonski (1927-2013)
Professor Emeritus of the UCLA Department of Political Science, Andrzej Korbonski was a distinguished Polish-American scholar whose contributions to communist and post-communist studies were internationally recognized.
Posted: 5/15/2013
Continuity and Change in the Cultural Legacy of Qajar Era
A lecture in Persian by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University. Part of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.
Posted: 5/10/2013
Historical Critique and the Thresholds of Political Voice After the Ottoman Empire
A CPSC lecture by Kabir Tambar, Stanford University, Anthropology.
Posted: 5/9/2013
Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet
A lecture by Murat Cankara, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Introductory remarks by Sebouh Aslanian. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
Posted: 5/8/2013
Being Danish: Paradoxes of Identity in Everyday Life
A book talk with author Richard Jenkins, University of Sheffield, Sociology. Discussant: Rogers Brubaker, UCLA, Sociology.
Posted: 4/25/2013
Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University
Posted: 4/17/2013
Return of the Brothers: Student Activism and Islamic Politics in 1970s Egypt
A lecture on April 10, 2013 by Abdullah Al-Arian,Wayne State University
Posted: 4/15/2013
Scholar to bring to life migrants’ perilous crossings
This profile of African Studies Center Director Françoise Lionnet looks at her upcoming presentation on historical and present-day migration and draws attention to the current phenomenon of African "boat people" — individuals from northern and western Africa in search of a better life who try to make the dangerous trip between the two continents in small boats. Lionnet delivers UCLA’s 114th Faculty Research Lecture in Schoenberg Hall on April 15, 2013, at 3 pm.
Posted: 4/15/2013
Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal
A book talk with author Carl T. Dahlman, Miami University of Ohio, Geography and discussant Adam Moore, UCLA, Geography.
Posted: 4/11/2013
The Complicated Lives of Gay Men in South Korea
According to anthropologist John Cho, single gay men in South Korea retreated from gay life in the wake of the 1997 Asian banking crisis and began to concentrate on making money, while married gay men became much more active in the gay community.
Posted: 4/10/2013
Profile of Nile Green
This engaging portrait of UCLA History Professor Nile Green, who is the director of the Program on Central Asia, was published in the Winter 2013 edition of "The UCLA College Report," a publication of the College of Letters and Science.
Posted: 4/5/2013
The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang, Bennington College. Part of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.
Posted: 4/2/2013
How do you teach the Arab Spring?
A recent course on the Arab Spring taught by CMED Director Steven Spiegel invited specialists from around the country and UCLA to lecture on individual countries—some in person and some via a videoconferencing link.
Posted: 4/1/2013
Stanley Kramer’s political critique of the Nuremberg Trials
Author and scholar Elisabeth Bronfen discusses a chapter from her book Specters of War:
Hollywood's Engagement with Military Conflict, explaining how Stanley Kramer uses film to critique the Nuremberg trials.
Posted: 3/14/2013
Iran and the Rise of the 21st Century Intellectuals
A lecture in Persian by Ata Hoodashtian, Institut Canadien de Management. Commentary by Dr. Ali Akbar Mahdi follows.
Posted: 3/12/2013
From Ad Hoc to Ongoing: The Mongol Invasions and the Institutionalization of Authority in Japan
A lecture by Thomas Conlan, Bowdoin College. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
Mongol Caucasia: Regional Historiographies and Social Change in an Integrating Eurasian World
A lecture by Steve Rapp, Sam Houston State University. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
No One Knew Who They Were: Russian Interaction with the Mongols
A lecture by Charles Halperin, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
Reception and (Mis)representation: Mongol Influences on China from the Perspective of Law and Gender
A lecture by Bettine Birge, USC. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
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