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Women's Studies Branches Out
The UCLA Graduate Quarterly reports on international directions in women's studies. Three graduate students are profiled.
Posted: 10/30/2007
Myanmar, the Latest Petro Bully
Sky-high oil prices allow the junta, and other bad actors, to thrive and buy political protection, writes Michael L. Ross in The Los Angeles Times. (Photo courtesy of Thompson/Essential Science Information)
Posted: 10/26/2007
Muslim Feminist Seeks to Educate Journalists
Zainah Anwar, executive director of Malaysian-based Sisters in Islam, pushes a message of diversity and progressivism within the framework of Islam.
Posted: 10/19/2007
Former Cape Verdean President Sees Africa Standing Up
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, who served two five-year terms as Cape Verde's first president elected under a multiparty system, tells a UCLA audience that Africa is no lost cause, but a continent striving towards peace and democracy. He discusses Cape Verde's relations with China and other emerging powers.
Posted: 10/10/2007
South African Heritages and Their Owners
On a trip to Cape Town, Laura Foster, an attorney and UCLA doctoral student in women's studies, discovers that intellectual property rights are not marginal concerns for marginalized and historically oppressed communities. They're near the center of efforts to reclaim and reaffirm cultures.
Posted: 10/5/2007
Sputnik Launch Turns 50, Russia Yawns
Andrew L. Jenks, an assistant professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, explains that the Sputnik moment was a moment for Americans, not Russians (who also had Yuri Gagarin). And the moment could repeat itself.
Posted: 10/3/2007
Oak to Spearhead English-Language Studies of Korean Christianity
This summer Sung-Deuk Oak, a UCLA faculty member in Asian Languages and Cultures, was chosen to be the first scholar funded under the Dong Soon Im and Mi Ja Im endowment. He'll be charged with telling a remarkable story in the history of religion.
Posted: 10/2/2007
Richard Baum: The Political Impact of China's Information Revolution
Scholar traces the explosion of new media-facilitated forums and examines how the government seeks, with limited success, to limit open discussion.
Posted: 10/1/2007
Unforeign Language
UCLA's National Heritage Language Resource Center held its first annual conference at UC Davis in 2007. Participants laid the groundwork for K-12 and college students to advance skills in the non-English languages they learned at home.
Posted: 9/4/2007
Why Terrorists Aren't Soldiers, Wesley K. Clark and Kal Raustiala
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Wesley K. Clark and Center Director Kal Raustiala argue in The New York Times that the current U.S. practice of declaring terrorists "enemy combatants" at once impairs counterterrorism efforts and endangers civil liberties at home.
Posted: 8/8/2007
Q&A: Cheris Chan
A UCLA Global Fellow explains how Chinese people's inhibitions about discussing premature death have made it hard, but not impossible, for a life insurance market to develop in the country.
Posted: 8/3/2007
Majority World Finds Voice in Photos
Photographer from Bangladesh delivers lectures at UCLA about human rights, images, and new takes on citizen journalism.
Posted: 7/23/2007
The Mediator
UCLA Burkle Center Assistant Director Anna Spain brings government and UN experience to the job, along with lessons learned since high school about solving problems collaboratively.
Posted: 7/9/2007
Climate Change: Globalization of Environmental Impacts and Solutions
A presentation by SASSAN SAATCHI, Institute of the Environment, UCLA, at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Posted: 6/15/2007
Europe's 'Different Adventure'
The keynote speaker at a UCLA conference on security issues in Europe and Eurasia revisits the meaning of European unity.
Posted: 6/15/2007
Kal Raustiala in the Los Angeles Times: A Bill of Rights Without Borders
A 50-year-old court decision on constitutional protections overseas comes into play in the war on terror, writes Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 6/15/2007
Princeton Philosopher Urges Rich to Give More to Poor
Peter Singer's message is uncomfortable: Most people follow a minimalist morality that makes them a lot more immoral than they consider themselves to be.
Posted: 6/4/2007
Geographer Entrikin Steps into Top Role at International Institute
In more than three decades at UCLA, Nicholas Entrikin has led his department, the review of faculty promotions across campus, and the Institute's Global Studies IDP. Now he's taking on two jobs in one: overseeing the growth of UCLA's global relationships and building bridges among multidisciplinary programs on campus. He and Ron Rogowski, the outgoing vice provost and dean, talk about where the Institute is heading.
Posted: 5/30/2007
Crisis Persists in El Salvador
Fifteen years after El Salvador's civil war, says Blanca Flor Bonilla, a member of the Legislative Assembly, extreme poverty is promoting organized crime, mass emigration, and the disintegration of families.
Posted: 5/28/2007
Digital Showcase Touts Interdisciplinary Innovation
Nearly 350 faculty, staff, students and others packed the crowded exhibition space at Perloff Hall, peering at computer monitors, test-driving Web applications, taking notes, and trading ideas and business cards.
Posted: 5/23/2007
Promises in AIDS Fight Not Met
Focusing on Africa, former UN envoy Stephen Lewis expresses amazement at the passivity of the international community as the HIV/AIDS epidemic traumatizes women, creates orphans, and continues on its decades-long path of devastation. Listen to a Podcast of his speech.
Posted: 5/22/2007
Roots of Epidemic Still Go Unaddressed
Debrework Zewdie, the director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program at the World Bank, argues that efforts to fight the pandemic will come up short as long as "fundamental drivers" such as poverty, gender inequality, and the marginalization of high-risk groups are not dealt with. Listen to a Podcast of her speech.
Posted: 5/22/2007
Etzioni Puts Security Before Elections
The professor and public intellectual Amitai Etzioni practices the Socratic method at UCLA, arguing for a foreign policy that proceeds from the human right to be free from harm.
Posted: 5/21/2007
Allende's Shadow Fading, Says Venezuelan Ambassador
Bernardo Álvarez Herrera, who represents Venezuela and Hugo Chávez in Washington, says his country's break from the U.S.-endorsed model of economic policy in Latin America is giving the region hope that democracies can enact "revolutionary change." He faults the United States for upholding a "double standard" on terrorism and not minding its energy consumption.
Posted: 5/17/2007
Network-Builder Describes Role in Brazil's TV Globo
The American pioneer of a powerhouse Brazilian television network tells his story at UCLA.
Posted: 5/15/2007
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