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Outgoing US Cultural Affairs Official Touts Social Networking Website
At a lecture cosponsored by the Burkle Center and student groups, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Goli Ameri introduces ExchangesConnect, a social networking website intended to bring a "new generation of digital natives" into conversation around the globe. Her bureau will also fund Indonesian dance performances on campus in spring.
Posted: 1/7/2009
An Architect for the Next Generation
As chair of UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, internationally acclaimed Japanese architect Hitoshi Abe has launched educational initiatives including a Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Studies.
Posted: 1/5/2009
Developments in the Study of Buddhist Art
Art History experts gather at UCLA to offer new interpretations of Buddhist art.
Posted: 12/19/2008
2 Exhibitions at Fowler to Showcase Contemporary African Art
From Feb. 22, the concurrent exhibitions 'Continental Rifts' and 'Transformations' will include video and film, photography, painting, sculpture and prints.
Posted: 12/18/2008
Fowler Exhibit Showcases Marsh Arabs and Their 'Floating Houses'
Photographer Nik Wheeler, a Vietnam War photographer, photojournalist and now a freelance photographer, took the iconic National Geographic images of the Marsh Arabs, or Mad'an.
Posted: 12/15/2008
Talk With the Taliban?
Two European-based anthropologists say that Afghans may be more inclined than some others to speak with enemies and to entertain views opposed to their own.
Posted: 12/10/2008
Shards
The late Roxanna Brown, who earned a UCLA doctorate in art history near the end of a creative scholarly career, found sweeping historical narratives in recovered Southeast Asian ceramics. Some of her unpublished works will be pieced together, but her vision can't be replaced, say three speakers at a UCLA symposium.
Posted: 12/8/2008
'Creating Places'
At the first "Asia in LA" program, architects, urban designers, and faculty members discuss the relationships between cosmopolitanism in a global city and particular locales.
Posted: 11/26/2008
Japan's Jazz Coffeeshops
Michael Molasky of the University of Minnesota discusses the surprising communities fostered by jazz coffeeshops in 20th-century Japan.
Posted: 11/20/2008
Bringing Africa to the Classroom
Organizers offered practical ways for the nearly 200 teachers to move beyond stereotypes about African disease, poverty, and chaos on the one hand, and safari animals and exotic customs on the other.
Posted: 11/10/2008
New Focus on Central Asia's Puzzles
Over the coming three years, the UCLA Asia Institute will continue to promote study of Central Asia, with the help of outside faculty and new funding from the International Institute. Last month on campus, international scholars engaged in a day-long discussion on the region's history, arts, and cultures.
Posted: 11/6/2008
UCLA Opens Egypt's 1st Official Archaeology Field School for US Undergrads
Willeke Wendrich, a renowned UCLA Egyptologist, and her co-director Ren Cappers of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands, lead the 36-person field school. They arranged nine pairs of American-Egyptian student teams to work together.
Posted: 11/4/2008
'Iraqi Marshlands Then and Now'
Opening Dec. 14, the exhibit at the Fowler Museum will recall the land and culture decimated by Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Gulf War.
Posted: 11/3/2008
Company Fruit in Danger
In the second of a series of talks by journalists for the UCLA Latin American Institute, Dan Koeppel discusses the history and the fate of the banana.
Posted: 10/29/2008
10 Questions for Albert Boime
The art historian's latest book tells of the evolution of Kamran Khavarani's art from the time of his Iranian exile to the present day.
Posted: 10/15/2008
Japan's Post-Bubble Artists Not so 'Cute'
Adrian Favell, UCLA professor of sociology, speaks in Yokohama, Japan at the opening of The ECHO: JAPAN NEXT, a contemporary art exhibit held at ZAIM as part of the third Yokohama Triennale.
Posted: 10/3/2008
Anthropologist Rose From Outcast to Academic
Now a professor of anthropology and co-director of Chinese studies at UCLA, Yan Yunxiang has returned many times to northeastern China to conduct fieldwork in Xiajia, where he lived for seven years as an ordinary farmer.
Posted: 10/1/2008
Famed Beijing Opera Troupe Kicks Off SoCal Tour at UCLA Oct. 8
The company is named for the late Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star, who gained worldwide fame portraying female characters on stage and introduced the form known as Beijing (or Peking) opera to the West.
Posted: 10/1/2008
Korean Classics for a Wider Audience
Thirteen Korean historical, religious, and philosophical classics will be introduced to English readers under a translation project coordinated by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
Posted: 9/26/2008
Michael Cooperson on Other Motives for Learning Arabic
A professor of Arabic at UCLA lists reasons, beyond the U.S. response to 9/11, that enrollments in Arabic courses have more than doubled in recent years. These include the influence of Arab architecture in California and on campus.
Posted: 9/19/2008
North African Vibes, Southern California
Highlights from a concert in Los Angeles featuring artists and music from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Posted: 9/18/2008
The Bird in the Top of the Tree
Alain Mabanckou left behind a legal career to achieve acclaim as a poet, a biographer, and an award-winning novelist.
Posted: 9/17/2008
Hip Hop Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: Local Perspectives from the Global Hip Hop Nation
A year-long film screening/speaker series exploring the local permutations of Hip Hop Culture in the Middle East and North Africa within the widely varying configurations of language, culture, politics, and religion in the region.
Posted: 9/16/2008
Seeking 'Spatial Justice' for World's Disabled
Victor Pineda, a doctoral student in urban planning, will return to Dubai on a Fulbright-Hays award in December to monitor the implementation of an ambitious disability rights law. He argues that the built environments we live in largely determine our abilities and who we are.
Posted: 9/5/2008
Artists Visit Advanced Chinese Class at UCLA
Award winners in paper cutting and folk dance come at the invitation of the Confucius Institute and others.
Posted: 8/28/2008
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