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UCLA Hosts 1st Conference on Afghan Literature
"Afghanistan in Ink: Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile" focused on works written or recorded in the tumult of the past three decades. Audio podcasts of conference presentations are now available.
Posted: 1/21/2010
Afghan Discourses of Occupation Today: Oral and Literary Proverbs and Aphorisms in Uncertain Times
A Lecture by Margaret Mills, Ohio State University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference.
Posted: 1/20/2010
The Temporality of Selfhood: Azhdaha-i Khudi as an Allegory of History
A lecture by Wali Ahmadi, UC Berkeley, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Intimate Realism: Recording the Experience of Exile in Second-Generation Refugee Poetry in Iran
A lecture by Zuzanna Olszewska, St. Johns College, Oxford University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Nation, War and Exile as Portrayed in Afghan Diasporic Fiction: The Case of Muhammad Asef Soltanzadeh
A lecture by Dr. Mir Hekmatullah Sadat, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Solitude, Diaspora, and Narration: Epic Memory in Afghan and Afghan-American Literature
A lecture by Shafiq Shamel, Stanford University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Turning on the Taliban: Radical fiction from the Sewing Circles of Herat
A lecture by Nushin Arbabzadah, UCLA, part of the Afghanistan in Ink conference.
Posted: 1/20/2010
Campus Community Scrambles to Respond to Crisis in Haiti
Empathy for the people's suffering after a massive earthquake in Haiti has energized students, staff and faculty to raise awareness, raise funds and in some cases to travel to the devastated country.
Posted: 1/15/2010
Talk This Way
Indiana University's William Fierman gives a tour of language in post-Soviet Central Asia, describing how individual governments have responded to an altered political landscape in part by trying to control written and spoken usage.
Posted: 1/14/2010
Global Buddies Connects Travelers with Families Across Oceans
Established by UCLA's Global Center for Children and Families in 2006, the program aims to build lasting ties between Americans and families in developing countries.
Posted: 1/8/2010
Scholar Intrigued by How Societies Treat Their Elderly
The idea that it's human nature for parents to make sacrifices for their children and, in turn, for grown children to sacrifice for their aging parents--turns out to be a "naive expectation," the UCLA geographer and bestselling author Jared Diamond said in a recent lecture.
Posted: 1/7/2010
Zen and the Beholder
Shoji Yamada, professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, takes a closer look at Japan, Zen and the West.
Posted: 12/16/2009
Arabs, Turks, and Europeans in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Podcast of a lecture by Professor Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota on November 12, 2009.
Posted: 12/10/2009
Forum for Africa Scholarship, Opinion, Expression in 2nd Life Online
Since 1970 "Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies" has given marginalized voices on Africa, the African diaspora and related social issues a space to address general readers and scholars alike. Formerly in print, the peer-reviewed journal has two new issues available online and free of charge.
Posted: 12/10/2009
Jews from Libya: Cross-currents and Concretizations of Identity in Israel Today
A lecture by Professor Harvey E. Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Posted: 12/9/2009
Many Modernities Ahead
China's rise as a global power will change world politics and culture, not just the economy, argues Martin Jacques in a new book. To look ahead, start by understanding the difference between a nation-state and a civilization-state.
Posted: 11/30/2009
Thai Government Gift Backs Language Courses Through Tough Times
Because of the generous gift, UCLA remains the only campus in California offering Thai language instruction at all levels. On Nov. 23, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the International Institute hosted a luncheon in honor of Consul General Damrong Kraikruan.
Posted: 11/24/2009
Movie Sheds Light on Transnational Families
"Those Who Remain" tells the story of Mexican families who have at least one member working in the United States. On Nov. 18, the UCLA Latin America Institute will be screening the film on campus with co-director Carlos Hagerman present, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 11/18/2009
Tea and Chinese Cultural Aesthetics
Podcast of public lecture by Pei-kai Cheng, Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Posted: 10/30/2009
Shaping Islam to France (and Vice-Versa)
A public lecture by John Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis.
Posted: 10/28/2009
She Travels Sahara to Record History of Caravan Trade
Ghislaine Lydon, the new chair of the African Studies interdepartmental program, will travel to Mauritania in December to collaborate on an article and a documentary film about the last women caravanners in the western Sahara Desert.
Posted: 10/5/2009
Human Rights Advocate Somaly Mam Speaks on Campus
Somaly Mam, founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation goes into detail about her personal experiences as a survivor of forced prostitution for Daily Bruin Radio. Somaly urges students to visit her website somaly.org in order to read testimonials, look at pictures and learn how to save lives.
Posted: 10/2/2009
From Elephants to Tea: The Nilgiris Under Colonial Rule
Podcast of public lecture by Sanjay Subrahmanyam at the Fowler Museum at UCLA as part of the Steeped in History: The Art of Tea exhibit.
Posted: 9/24/2009
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