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Professor Wins Top French Literary Prize with Congolese Fable
Alain Mabanckou, a visiting professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies, won the annual prize for his best-selling novel, "Mémoires de porc-épic" ("Memoirs of a Porcupine").
Posted: 11/27/2006
'After Bach': UCLA Live Welcomes Latvian Violinist Gidon Kremer
Joined by pianist Andrius Zlabys and percussionist Andrei Pushkarev, Kremer on Nov. 19 will perform celebrated works composed or influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Posted: 11/17/2006
50 Years Later: a Look at Hungary’s Failed Revolt
Center for European and Eurasian Studies hosts visiting professor to share unconventional analysis of historic event.
Posted: 11/13/2006
Case Histories in Ancient Medicine: Cross-Cultural Comparisons & Philosophical Reflections
A talk by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd
Posted: 11/13/2006
UCLA Visiting Professor Wins Prestigious French Book Prize
Prix Renaudot winners become "mega-stars overnight" in France.
Posted: 11/6/2006
Austrian Ambassador Discusses EU Expansion with Faculty
Lunch chat with Eva Nowotny, Austrian ambassador to the US, also covers EU constitution, immigration, and the country's recent parliamentary elections.
Posted: 10/12/2006
70 Years After Start of Spanish Civil War
UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese presents Oct. 10–Dec. 5 film series on Franco era's bloody beginning.
Posted: 9/28/2006
Armenians at Home
UCLA historian Richard Hovannisian instructs local K-12 teachers on more than a century of Armenian migrations to Southern California and elsewhere. His archive of interviews with 800 survivors of the Armenian Genocide is now digitized, with transcriptions and translations in the works.
Posted: 9/7/2006
Andrew Dawson's Award-Winning 'Absence and Presence' Makes Its Los Angeles Premiere at UCLA Live Oct. 11-15
English director, dancer and mime artist's intimate elegy to his father, whose body lay undiscovered for 10 days after he died in 1985, reflects on grief, regret and the unique emotions wrought by the death of a parent.
Posted: 8/30/2006
CEES Director Wins Teaching Award
Gail Kligman honored with 2006 Eugene Weber Honors Collegium Teaching Award.
Posted: 6/23/2006
Muslim American Poet Sets Down Stakes
University of Arkansas' Mohja Kahf asks what one more label could do for study of American writers, herself not excluded. The lecture is part of CNES-, CEES-, and government-sponsored sociology course on Muslims in Europe and North America.
Posted: 6/7/2006
The Talking Cure
Conference participants market strategies for managing small nations' images around the world. They call it 'country branding.'
Posted: 5/18/2006
Joschka Fischer Argues Global Powers 'Condemned to Cooperation'
In talk at UCLA, former German foreign minister sees no future for 'balance-of-powers' geopolitics, defends European expansion within bounds, urges US not to give up on 'the West.' Fischer calls Iranian nuclear program biggest threat in troubled Middle East.
Posted: 5/2/2006
Diary Offers Window into French Indochina
A chance encounter with a rare original source took a professor and his students on a captivating journey through Vietnam. In a colloquium at UCLA, Bucknell U's David Del Testa and Los Angeles educators discuss how to share a 19-year-old woman's personal story with K-12 students.
Posted: 4/28/2006
Bernard-Henri Lévy Warns on Anti-Semitism, Stage 6
The famed, if not always celebrated, French intellectual urges all groups to refrain from absurd, counterproductive 'competition of victimhoods.'
Posted: 4/14/2006
Islam and Politics, Muslim Diasporas, Historical Photography Anchor Spring Programs
More than 50 scholars from around the world participate in a host of academic activities sponsored by CNES
Posted: 4/5/2006
Headscarves and Discrimination in Europe
Author of 'The Islamic Challenge' says moderate European Muslims face challenges from all sides, should be consulted on security issues.
Posted: 3/1/2006
Designing for Terror
Institute-funded study of transit security, begun before bombing attacks in Madrid and London, finds officials concerned about physical design of stations, riders' perceptions of risk. Europeans get higher marks for coordination than more secretive American officials.
Posted: 1/3/2006
A Wake-up Call for Transit System Security
A study with funding from the Global Impact Research Initiative in the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations explores the complex security and terrorism issues that affect public transportation worldwide.
Posted: 12/8/2005
British Expert Discusses Globalization Issues
Over 125 people heard Blair adviser Anthony Giddens address global communications, security, and the history of the globalization debate.
Posted: 11/8/2005
Victory Deflated, Delayed, Debunked
Indecisive German elections spark questions at UCLA. What happened to Merkel's lead? Why can't anyone team with the Left? Did Germans bring the grand coalition on themselves?
Posted: 10/31/2005
Adam & Eve - The Oldest Pub in Norwich (and maybe England!)
This article was written by Erica Sin, a Communications and Business Economics major at UCLA who lived in East Anglia/Norwich, United Kingdom and contributed to the Travel Guide Urban Lowdown.
Posted: 8/25/2005
Hiker's Dream
This article was written by Jamie Hughins, a Design | Media Arts major at UCLA who lived in Lund, Sweden and contributed to the Travel Guide Urban Lowdown
Posted: 8/25/2005
Leeds International Film Festival
This article was written by Janet Cheng, a Communications/Sociology major at UCLA who lived in Leeds, England and contributed to the Travel Guide Urban Lowdown.
Posted: 8/25/2005
Lunchtime
This article was written by Jamie Hughins, a Design | Media Arts major at UCLA who lived inLund, Sweden and contributed to the Travel Guide Urban Lowdown
Posted: 8/25/2005
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