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French Territorial Security: Urban Violence, Illegal Immigration, and Muslim Communities
A presentation by REMI BAUDOUI, Professor of Public Policy and Planning, University of Geneva, at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Posted: 6/15/2007
Security and Sustainability of Cities in a Changing Climate
A presentation by MARTIN BENISTON, Climate Research Group, University of Geneva, at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Posted: 6/15/2007
The Caspian Region and the New Canon of Security
A presentation by BABAK HEDJAZI, Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Geneva, at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Posted: 6/15/2007
The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea
A book talk by author KRISTEN GHODSEE, Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College
Posted: 6/15/2007
A Cautionary Tale: Revisiting Ceausescu's Anti-Abortion Policies
A public lecture by GAIL KLIGMAN, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies at UCLA
Posted: 6/14/2007
Border Security Policies and Technologies in the European Union
A presentation by REY KOSLOWSKI, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, SUNY Albany, at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Posted: 6/14/2007
Rail Transit Security in an International Context
A presentation by ANASTASIA LOUKAITOU-SIDERIS, Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA, at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Posted: 6/13/2007
AIDS Fight Needs Course Correction, Say Panelists
Prescriptions for combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe include increased funding, focus on local disease drivers, and reassertion of public health goals over political concerns.
Posted: 6/12/2007
The Politics of Sexual Harassment: A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany
A book talk by author KATHRIN ZIPPEL, Sociology, Northeastern University
Posted: 6/8/2007
Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town
A book talk by author ROGERS BRUBAKER, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Posted: 6/6/2007
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
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
Beyond 'The Crocodile'
UCLA literary translator Michael Heim and distinguished panelists revisit the life and the diary of Kornei Chukovsky, the Russian man of letters best remembered as a children's author. UCLA's Vyacheslav Ivanov recalls details of his lifelong friendship with Chukovsky.
Posted: 5/8/2007
Q&A: Nina Sylvanus
A UCLA Global Fellow discusses West African women's longstanding influence on a global market in textiles, and the emerging role of Chinese manufacturers. Sylvanus is organizing an April workshop at UCLA on China's role in Africa.
Posted: 4/24/2007
Growing EU Brings International Leaders and Issues to UCLA
Panelists from Central European countries discuss impact of integration, stability of democracies.
Posted: 4/20/2007
'American Islam Crystallized After 9/11'
CUNY's Mehdi Bozorgmehr, a sociology PhD from UCLA who directs a research center on both the Middle East and Middle Eastern Americans, explains the importance of religious identity in post-9/11 advocacy for groups affected by backlash.
Posted: 4/16/2007
Complex Issues Explored on Film
Documentary unearths different perspectives, definitions of terrorism and counterterrorism
Posted: 4/11/2007
An Iraqi Woman's Bleak Perspective
"I tried to imagine what I would feel like if I had to move to Sweden at the age of 72 with uncertain residence status and my family left behind in my own country which was torn apart by war," writes UCLA Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr in the Palisadian-Post.
Posted: 4/3/2007
Is Democracy Possible in the Balkans? On the Debates in and on Bosnia, Kosovo/a, and Serbia
A public lecture by SUSAN WOODWARD, Professor of Political Science, City University of New York
Posted: 3/19/2007
UCLA Faculty Craft 2 New Research Fields
Under proposals submitted by Professors Andrew Apter and Rogers Brubaker, each with a collaborator at another campus, the Social Science Research Council will steer dissertation writers towards "Black Atlantic Studies" and "Rethinking Europe."
Posted: 3/15/2007
'Arab Style' Hits Bulgarian Province
Kristen Ghodsee of the Gender and Women's Studies Program at Bowdoin College has observed a Persian Gulf-influenced Muslim religious revival in a southern Bulgarian province. In one of two recent UCLA talks, she describes her project to work out how it happened.
Posted: 2/26/2007
Robert Brenner on the Long Downturn
Robert Brenner, a UCLA professor of history and author of, most recently, "The Economics of Global Turbulence," shares his long- and short-run analyses of the post-WWII world economy.
Posted: 2/7/2007
UCLA Live to Bring Spanish Flamenco Icon Sara Baras
"Neither a purist nor a modernizer," Baras returns to UCLA with "Sabores" at Royce Hall Feb. 21-22.
Posted: 1/18/2007
Surprised, Again, by Dutch Voters
A visiting historian and a UCLA political scientist analyze November's inconclusive election in the Netherlands.
Posted: 12/15/2006
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