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Look to History to Understand Why Global Capitalism is Hated
Deepak Lal distils arguments from his recent book, "Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century." Lal is the James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies.
Posted: 2/6/2007
Webzine Covers Language in L.A.
With student-interns as reporters, the UCLA Center for World Languages launches an online magazine devoted to the city's linguistic diversity.
Posted: 2/1/2007
Book Takes on Neoliberalism
"Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire" incorporates insights about the current effects of global capitalism culled from McLaren and Jaramillo's recent conversations with teachers, scholars and social activists in Colombia, Israel and the Palestinian territories, South Africa, and Venezuela.
Posted: 1/23/2007
Clark: Iraq War Legal, Not Legitimate
Retired General Wesley K. Clark, a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, explains to a packed Law School auditorium that the United States has "squandered its mantle of legitimacy in this conflict."
Posted: 1/23/2007
Brazilian Justice Speaks on Race, UCLA Book
Joaquim Barbosa Gomes, the first Afro-Brazilian Justice on Brazil's Supreme Court, and three panelists praised a UCLA sociologist for his award-winning book. The panel discussed racial inequality in Brazil.
Posted: 1/22/2007
Venezuelan Higher Ed Ministry Names Chair for UCLA Professor
Also in September, Toronto-based Chopbox Magazine created the Peter L. McLaren Foundation for Social Change.
Posted: 1/18/2007
Outreach World Website Lauded by Federal Government
Developed and hosted by the UCLA International Institute, the online hub for K-12 area studies has been showcased in Washington, D.C., and garnered praise from the U.S. Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Posted: 1/2/2007
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
Bruin Angels: Niranjala and Lokubanda Tillakaratne
Using primarily their own savings, they fund self-help projects for poor Sri Lankan villages, where the Tillakaratnes spend their vacation time each year.
Posted: 12/13/2006
What Should America's Strategy Be in the Middle East?
A look at the policies of 11 U.S. presidents since the creation of the new Middle East in 1948 provides useful clues to a sound and viable strategy in the region, writes UCLA political scientist Steven Spiegel.
Posted: 12/13/2006
Welfare Fails to Save the World
"Whether or not there was a time for foreign aid, it is an idea whose time has gone," argues UCLA economist Deepak Lal in The Australian.
Posted: 12/4/2006
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
Democracy's No Panacea for Poverty, Study Finds
Michael Ross, a UCLA political scientist, concluded that democratic countries do no better than their non-democratic counterparts in helping the world's poorest citizens -- a troubling finding, he said, that contradicts the claims made by a generation of scholars.
Posted: 11/8/2006
UCLA Visiting Professor Wins Prestigious French Book Prize
Prix Renaudot winners become "mega-stars overnight" in France.
Posted: 11/6/2006
Powell Showcases Middle East in American Popular Fiction
The exhibit, curated by CNES Assistant Director Jonathan Friedlander, runs Nov. 6-Jan. 12 at UCLA’s Powell Library. A Jan. 11 lecture will treat the Middle East in American crime fiction.
Posted: 11/2/2006
Foremost Western Historian of India Publishes New Work on End of Colonial Period
UCLA Professor Emeritus Stanley Wolpert reflects on his career.
Posted: 10/26/2006
Lebanon's War With Cluster Bombs
The 40% of Israeli-dropped 'bomblets' that didn't explode during this summer's war continue to kill Lebanon's most vulnerable, writes Professor Saree Makdisi in the Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 10/25/2006
Professor Fights to Save Records
The records Robinson compiled during his time in East Timor have contributed to a larger record of archives collected by the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation, which collects records of the 25-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor.
Posted: 10/19/2006
UCLA Ethnomusicologist on Arab Classical Sounds
Racy explains pleasures of a musical tradition to the Kansas City Star.
Posted: 10/19/2006
Obituary: Mazisi Kunene, South African Poet Laureate, Anti-apartheid Leader, and UCLA Professor
The UCLA African Studies Center held a memorial service for Kunene on Oct. 12.
Posted: 10/18/2006
In UCLA Debut, Wesley Clark Critiques US Torture Policy
The former supreme allied commander of NATO, now a Burkle Center senior fellow, and UCLA law professors discuss provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Clark disputes need for "rough treatment" of detainees on practical, moral, and geo-strategic grounds.
Posted: 10/3/2006
Perspectives on Israel Studies: A Personal View
by Professor Leonard Binder, Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
Posted: 9/25/2006
Records of East Timor, 1999
UCLA historian Geoffrey Robinson is leading a mission to save evidence of a young nation's turbulent birth and working through his own memories of violence.
Posted: 9/21/2006
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
American in Beirut
UCLA Islamic Studies doctoral student Joanne Nucho went to Lebanon to study Arabic and a community in East Beirut. She ended up working to get out, a process that led her to new reflections on the region and her own family ties to it.
Posted: 8/24/2006
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