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Off the Radar Screen: The Unacknowledged Struggle to Protect Kosova's Islamic Traditions
A public lecture by ISA BLUMI, Georgia State University, History. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series.
Posted: 4/3/2008
Danish Ambassador Touts 'Dangerous' Example
How Denmark stays progressive, pro-U.S., and thoroughly multilateral, as explained by Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen, the country's top representative in Washington.
Posted: 3/14/2008
Gunter Grass' Peeling the Onion
A book talk with translator MICHAEL HEIM, UCLA Slavic Languages and Literatures, and discussant HANS WAGENER, UCLA Germanic Languages
Posted: 2/1/2008
The Book that Brought Tolerance to the Enlightenment
UCLAGetty Research Institute digital project revives Europe's first taste of religious tolerance.
Posted: 12/21/2007
10 Questions for Lynn Hunt
Professor of History Lynn Hunt's 2007 book "Inventing Human Rights: A History" was published with CIA-sponsored "torture flights," "enhanced interrogation techniques" and genocide all in the news. She spoke with UCLA International Institute Senior Writer Kevin Matthews about whether the very idea of human rights is now in danger, and how novels aided the concept's evolution.
Posted: 12/11/2007
Austria's Role in Central and Eastern Europe
A public lecture by PAUL LENDVAI, Austrian Journalist, with an introduction by Ivan Berend, UCLA History.
Posted: 12/10/2007
Headscarves and Hotpants: Islam, Secularism and Women's Fashion in Southeastern Europe
A public lecture by KRISTEN GHODSEE, Bowdoin College, Gender and Women's Studies. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series organized by CEES and CNES.
Posted: 12/10/2007
Living with Russia
Jack F. Matlock, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Posted: 12/10/2007
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure and the Internet
A CEES faculty lecture by CHRISTINE BORGMAN, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Posted: 12/10/2007
Sheherezada in Exile, or Writing Across the Borders: The Case of Dubravka Ugresic
A public lecture by JASMINA LUKIC, Central European University, Budapest, Gender Studies
Posted: 12/10/2007
Stone Records and Parallel Universes: Music and Globalization in Turkey
A CEES faculty lecture by MUNIR BEKEN, UCLA Ethnomusicology
Posted: 12/10/2007
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
A book talk with author MARGARET JACOB, UCLA History, and discussant DAVID HOLLINGER, UC Berkeley History
Posted: 12/10/2007
The Social Bases of Reform and Anti-Reform: A Comparative Study of Ukraine and Russia
A public lecture by DAVID LANE, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Posted: 12/10/2007
Women's Health and Welfare States: A Comparative Study of Western Europe
A CEES faculty lecture by NICOLETTE HART, UCLA Sociology
Posted: 12/10/2007
Last US Ambassador to USSR Makes Case for Cooperation
Ambassador Jack Matlock says that, on the most pressing global issues, the United States still needs Russia. Speaking ahead of parliamentary elections, he calls U.S. discussion of Putin's autocratic tendencies "overblown."
Posted: 12/4/2007
Panel Speaks on Oil Politics
The panel featured journalist Steve LeVine and discussion centered around oil in the Caspian region, where LeVine spent 11 years reporting. [The event was sponsored by the UCLA Center for International Business Education & Research and cosponsored with the UCLA International Institute and the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, among others.]
Posted: 11/7/2007
At UCLA, Mongolia's First Lady Seeks Ties with 'Third Neighbor'
Tsolmon Onon Enkhbayar addresses UCLA scholars and members of L.A.'s Mongolian community.
Posted: 10/30/2007
10 Questions with Saul Friedlander
UCLA History Professor Saul Friedlander, chronicler of the Holocaust, will receive the top award at the Frankfurt Book Fair this month.
Posted: 10/10/2007
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
Letter from Gyumri: Faith into Action
Epifania Amoo-Adare, a former UCLA graduate student in Education and staffer at the UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa, writes about her work in the South Caucasus.
Posted: 7/31/2007
307 Degrees Conferred by International Institute in 2006-07
View a slideshow of the 2007 International Institute Graduation Ceremony (Flash plug-in required). Speakers included retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark.
Posted: 7/10/2007
Former Swedish Legislator Visits UCLA Centers
While a member of the Swedish parliament in 2006, Berndt Ekholm worked on a committee report about relations between the West and the Muslim world, focusing on the European Union and its neighborhood.
Posted: 7/3/2007
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
Energy Security in South-Eastern Europe: the Role of Greece
A presentation by DIMITRIS CARAMITSOS-TZIRAS, Greek Consul General, Los Angeles, at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Posted: 6/15/2007
Energy Security: Risks and Advantages of Partnering with Russia
A presentation by MARTHA BRILL OLCOTT, Senior Associate, Russian and Eurasian Program, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Posted: 6/15/2007
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