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'Atomic Mom' Filmmaker Reveals Secret Stories of the Bomb
At a symposium on the anti-nuclear weapons movement, director M.T. Silvia screens and discusses a new film about her mother's role at a Nevada testing site and the story of a Hiroshima survivor; and Steve Leeper, chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, urges action by nonproliferation treaty signatories on disarmament.
Posted: 5/21/2010
CISA Announces 2009 Sardar Patel Award Winner
Congratulations to Dr. Gayatri A. Menon, recipient of the 2009 Sardar Patel Award, for the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India.
Posted: 5/21/2010
Fastest Way to Asia's Heart
About 150 people stopped at the alumni center for a day of tastings, demonstrations and discussions about Asian cuisines and cultures in Los Angeles.
Posted: 5/6/2010
Cambodian Students Begin Learning about Khmer Rouge Atrocities
Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, describes the challenges of teaching young people about the country's holocaust. Over the last two weeks of April, he met with students and faculty at UCLA, Berkeley, Irvine and San Diego.
Posted: 5/3/2010
Panelists Share Experiences from the Vietnam War
In commemoration of what is now known as Black April in the Southeast Asian community, the Vietnamese Student Union held a series of events last week highlighted by a commemoration event Thursday.
Posted: 5/3/2010
Prolific, Renowned Ko Un Brings his Poetry to UCLA
The former Buddhist monk and activist for Korean democracy brings a distinctive voice to campus, two weeks after marking a milestone in his career, the completion of "Ten Thousand Lives."
Posted: 4/27/2010
Fulbright Keynoter: University's Main Impact Is Moral
UCLA political scientist Susanne Lohmann underscores the value of values in higher education for a regional association of visiting Fulbright scholars. At afternoon and evening events on April 21, UCLA student leaders, foreign scholars and other invited guests assess the university's role in moral education.
Posted: 4/26/2010
Chilling Effect on Muslim Giving Examined at Law Conference
The UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law will devote one of its annual issues to papers emerging from the April 16 meeting on "Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror."
Posted: 4/21/2010
Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early 20th Century
A book talk with author Elisa Camiscioli (Binghamton University, History).
Posted: 4/19/2010
Eric Garcetti Speaks on "LA and CA in the World"
In this video, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti delivers a lecture on "LA and CA in the World: Our Global Interests and Global Positions." The lecture was presented by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and UCLA School of Public Affairs.
Posted: 4/15/2010
Are Native Languages Worth Saving? A Globetrotting Scholar Says Yes
Geography Professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond, the author of books on how societies succeed and fail, argues in a lecture that being bilingual or multilingual is good for cognitive skills, for memory in later years and probably for your country. The Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes was on hand for the discussion.
Posted: 4/14/2010
UCLA International Faculty Take 4 Guggenheim Fellowships
The winners include African Studies Center Director Andrew Apter and Center for Chinese Studies Co-director Yunxiang Yan. The 2010 fellowships will support UCLA research on Roman theater, Byzantine villagers, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and morality in contemporary China.
Posted: 4/14/2010
Festival of Books Preview: Geoffrey Robinson on East Timor
On Saturday, April 24, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on campus, UCLA Professor Geoffrey Robinson will participate in a discussion of "History: Rising Above Oppression." Robinson is the author of "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor" (Princeton University Press, 2010). The discussion will take place at 11 a.m. in Haines 39.
Posted: 4/13/2010
Festival of Books Preview: Joyce Appleby on Global Capitalism
On Sunday, April 25, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on campus, UCLA Professor Emerita Joyce Appleby will participate in a panel discussion on the U.S. economy. Appleby is the author, most recently, of "The Relentless Revolution: a History of Capitalism" (Norton, 2010). The discussion on Sunday will take place at 11 a.m. in Haines 39.
Posted: 4/13/2010
Festival of Books Preview: Richard Baum's China Tales
On Sunday, April 25, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on campus, UCLA Professor Richard Baum will participate in a discussion on "China: The Next Super Power? with three other panelists. Baum is the author, most recently, of "China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom" (University of Washington, 2010). The discussion on Sunday will take place at noon in Young Hall CS 50.
Posted: 4/13/2010
Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in the LA Times: "Consequences of the Catholic Church's Claim of Statehood"
The practice of treating the Catholic Church as a state has been bad for women's equality and gay rights. Now, the unfolding sexual abuse scandal reveals another dark side of the Holy See's status.
Posted: 4/11/2010
Haitian Ambassador Outlines Rebuilding Strategy, Thanks UCLA Medical Team
In events at the School of Nursing and the International Institute, Ambassador Raymond Alcide Joseph explains how international pledges to his country will build roads, schools, houses, trade and tourism and support a plan to decentralize the country, moving resources from Port-au-Prince to other regions.
Posted: 4/8/2010
No Tulips This Time, But Hope
Ali F. Igmen, a historian at CSU Long Beach who specializes in Central Asia and Kyrgyzstan, recalls the disappointments of the country's 2005 revolution in assessing the events of this week.
Posted: 4/8/2010
10 Questions with Joyce Appleby
In less than 400 years, capitalism has generated unprecedented wealth and new forms of power, altered prevailing wisdom about human nature, and spread itself far beyond its improbable original setting, a process that the eminent historian Joyce Appleby describes in "The Relentless Revolution: a History of Capitalism" (Norton, 2010). Running all the way to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, the history pauses on the lives of industrialists, adventurers and pamphleteers.
Posted: 3/30/2010
1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
A book talk with author Mary Elise Sarotte (University of Southern California, School of International Relations) and discussant Norman Naimark (Stanford University, History).
Posted: 3/29/2010
Conservative Nationalists and Right Radicals: Two Rival Trends of Hungarian Politics
A public lecture by Istvan Deak (Columbia University, History).
Posted: 3/29/2010
Creating Citizens' Democracy in Post-Communist Countries
A public lecture by Adam Michnik (Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, UCLA Regents Lecturer).
Posted: 3/29/2010
From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe Since 1973
A book talk with author Ivan Berend (UCLA, History).
Posted: 3/29/2010
Journalists Under Fire: An Independent Reporter's View from Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan
A public lecture by Anne Nivat, Award-Winning Paris-Based Freelance War Reporter and Writer.
Posted: 3/29/2010
Memory, Democracy, and Moral Justice: Romania Confronts Its Communist Past
A public lecture by Vladimir Tismaneanu (University of Maryland, Government and Politics).
Posted: 3/29/2010
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