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The Last Soviet Dreamer: Conversations with Leonid Potemkin
A public lecture by JOCHEN HELLBECK, Rutgers University, History
Posted: 5/26/2009
Congress' Poor Oversight of Intelligence Is Longstanding Problem
This op-ed, addressing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's charge that the CIA and the Bush Administration misled Congress in its briefings about interrogations of terrorist suspects, was published recently by NationalJournal.com.
Posted: 5/22/2009
Mexican Writer Elena Poniatowska Addresses 250 on Literary Women
In a Spanish-language lecture on Latin America's women writers, the versatile and prolific Poniatowska explains that her vocation means something distinctive for Latin American women, and that passing centuries have brought little relief and appreciation for those who dare to make art.
Posted: 5/21/2009
Anderson Cooper Delivers Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA
The lecture series, established at UCLA in 2002, features scholars, journalists and policymakers who have contributed original analyses or constructive approaches to problems of international concern. Cooper spoke to a crowd of 900 on Sunday.
Posted: 5/18/2009
Cooper Honors Daniel Pearl
Though he never met Pearl, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said, he keeps a picture of him and another fallen journalist on his bulletin board at work as a source of inspiration. The Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture is cosponsored by the Burkle Center.
Posted: 5/18/2009
Japan Honors Notehelfer With Order of the Rising Sun
At a May 12 ceremony, the government of Japan recognizes former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer for his contributions to history and Japanese studies in the United States. He is one of 70 non-nationals to receive the Order this year.
Posted: 5/13/2009
Alfred Kokh and Igor Svinarenko's 4/27/09 Book Talk: A Crate of Vodka
On April 28, 2009 Alfred Kokh and Igor Svinarenko visited a UCLA Russian Flagship class to discuss their book, (A Crate of Vodka: An Insider View on the 20 Years that Shaped Modern Russia, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, Enigma Books).
Posted: 5/11/2009
Predicting Social Change
Psychology Professor Patricia Greenfield has elaborated a new theory that explains rapidly changing values in terms of adaptations to different types of environments. She posits a long-term, world-wide trend.
Posted: 5/8/2009
Guns, Roses and Graduate Degrees
At a conference that considered the impact of the French philosopher Michel Foucault on Middle East studies, visiting historian Janet Afary explains that the story of Iranian women since the Revolution is not entirely one of repression.
Posted: 5/6/2009
eBay Has Unexpected Effect on Looting of Antiquities, Archaeologist Finds
UCLA archaeologist Charles Stanish argues in the latest issue of Archaeology that the antiquities market created by the online auction house eBay has reduced incentives for looting.
Posted: 5/4/2009
Chilean Poet Raul Zurita Draws, and Stirs, a Crowd
Raul Zurita, one of Latin America's great living poets and one of Chile's most important voices against dictatorship, reads and discusses his poetry on campus.
Posted: 5/1/2009
Filling the Silent Space
One of the standing committees on South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission documents Korean War deaths including mass killings of some 100,000 South Koreans by their own military, police and allies. Dong-Choon Kim of Sung Kong Hoe University discussed the work of the committee he leads earlier this quarter at UCLA.
Posted: 5/1/2009
Ex-Interrogators Say Human Connection, Not Torture, Yields Results
In the national debate on whether the tactic of torture is warranted for the sake of national security, the experiences of the two former interrogators underscore the argument that torture is not an effective tool for unsealing secrets and getting at the truth.
Posted: 4/30/2009
Foucault and Middle East Studies - Foucault and the Historiography of Nationalism in the Arab Middle East
James L. Gelvin, UCLA
Posted: 4/29/2009
Foucault and Middle East Studies - Foucault, the Frankfurt School, and Sexuality in Modern Iran
Janet Afary, UCLA
Posted: 4/29/2009
Foucault and Middle East Studies - Genus of Sex
Afsaneh Najmabadeh, Harvard University
Posted: 4/29/2009
Foucault and Middle East Studies - Introduction
Introduction by conference organizer, Professor James Gelvin, UCLA
Posted: 4/29/2009
Foucault and Middle East Studies - Population, governmentality and social medicine: some questions from 19th- century Egypt
Khaled Fahmy, NYU
Posted: 4/29/2009
Foucault and Middle East Studies - The Virtues of Recalcitrance: Democracy from Foucault to Latour
Keynote Address by Professor Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University
Posted: 4/29/2009
Burkle Senior Fellow Kantathi Suphamonkhon: Can Thailand Avoid the Abyss?
Burkle Center Senior Fellow and 39th Foreign Minister of Thailand, Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, explains in a widely circulated op-ed how his country can "reset" its politics.
Posted: 4/24/2009
UCLA Holds 1st Graduate Conference on Indonesia
Sponsored by the new UCLA Indonesian Studies Program, a graduate student conference promotes activism and collaborative scholarship about the world's fourth-largest nation.
Posted: 4/23/2009
2 at International Institute Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Among the six new fellows on the UCLA faculty are Sanjay Subrahmanyam, a historian who directs the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, and Rogers Brubaker, a sociologist who serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 4/21/2009
Wangari Maathai Calls for Debt Forgiveness
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan founder of the global Green Belt Movement, told a Burkle Center audience that Africans "are literally slaves" to Western nations that profit from excessive interest payments on aid. Event coverage and video are available from Zocalo Public Square.
Posted: 4/21/2009
Professor Marina Goldovskaya Receives Scolarship and Preservation Award
CEES congratulates Professor Goldovskaya for receiving the 2008 Scolarship and Preservation Award from the International Documentary Association!
Posted: 4/20/2009
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