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Is the Islamic Republic of Iran Headed for a Sexual Revolution?
Janet Afary, a visiting professor in the Department of History, will discuss her forthcoming book, "Sexual Politics in Modern Iran" (Cambridge University Press, 2009), at a public event on May 19. This related op-ed recently appeared in the Guardian newspaper.
Posted: 4/17/2009
Study Explores Roots of Ethnic Violence
Excluding ethnic groups from power is a recipe for civil war, say researchers led by Sociology Professor Andreas Wimmer and a former UCLA political scientist.
Posted: 4/16/2009
International Community Coming to Realize 'the Responsibility to Protect'
Gareth Evans, former foreign minister of Australia and author of a landmark report on stopping genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity, said Tuesday at UCLA that the international community is coming to realize that "the sin is not intervention, the sin is indifference."
Posted: 4/15/2009
Faculty Research, Foucault, and Human Rights are the Highlight of CNES's Spring Programs
Conferences on Women in Conflict Zones, Iranian-American Writers, and Foucault in the Middle East
Posted: 4/13/2009
Missed Opportunity Hurt US-African Relations for Decades
For the last half-century the United States has undermined itself in Africa by failing to distinguish itself from Europe and the colonial legacy, says Haskell Sears Ward, one of the first to graduate from UCLA with an interdisciplinary master's degree in African studies.
Posted: 4/10/2009
'To Know Mexico Better Is to Know Ourselves Better'
UCLA is expanding its studies of and ties with Mexico with the creation of a dedicated center under the Latin American Institute and new programs of scholarly collaboration and exchange. At the inaugural event for the Center for Mexican Studies, speakers honored decades of service by UCLA's "dean of Mexican studies," Professor James Wilkie.
Posted: 4/8/2009
Alumnus to Speak on US Relations with Africa
Haskell Sears Ward, an expert on development and one of the first UCLA graduate students in African Studies, will focus his Thursday afternoon talk on what Africa and the United States have meant to one another for the past 50 years.
Posted: 4/1/2009
Wartime Engineers as Social Visionaries
Aaron Moore, a Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA and faculty member at Arizona State University, explains the vision of a modern empire behind Japanese engineering projects during the Sino-Japanese War.
Posted: 3/31/2009
Malcolm Kerr's Middle East
The family of a famous Bruin peacemaker, assassinated 25 years ago while serving as president of the American University of Beirut, has remembered him by seeking truth about his killers and reconciliation between nations.
Posted: 3/30/2009
The Buddha as Astute Businessman, Economist, Lawyer
Wall Street bankers would have benefited from being in the Buddha's audience. At the 106th Faculty Research Lecture, Gregory Schopen explains.
Posted: 3/19/2009
Toward a Pan-American School of Things Korean
Now in its third year, the Korean Studies in the Americas program brings students to UCLA from four Latin American countries, supports collaboration among faculty, and sends American Koreanist scholars north and south for lectures. Funded by the Seoul-based Academy of Korean Studies, the UCLA-administered program has begun to snowball, attracting interest in the form of travel grants for Latin American students and faculty members visiting Korea and the United States.
Posted: 3/18/2009
Three Chinese Histories of Globalization
Delivering the inaugural lecture for the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies speaker series "Beyond the Headlines: China and the Global Future," Wang Gungwu of the National University of Singapore shows how China's image of and role in globalization have changed as the country has become less closed off and more of an active participant in world affairs.
Posted: 3/16/2009
Historian Looks Back on Fall of Communism 20 Years Ago
Visiting professor Jurgen Kocka, a modern social historian at the Free University of Berlin, gave a lecture that kicks off more than a year of talks, conferences and film screenings organized by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies. An international conference about 1989's events and a film series are set for November.
Posted: 3/13/2009
Musawah Movement: Seeking Equality and Justice in Muslim Family Law
A doctoral student in women's studies reports on a February gathering in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, demanding inclusion of women's perspectives in the construction of family law in both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority countries.
Posted: 3/13/2009
Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic
A book talk with author ROMAN KOROPECKYJ, UCLA, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and discussant BETH HOLMGREN, Duke University, Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Posted: 3/10/2009
The Agonizing History of the CIA's Intelligence Failures
In a lecture addressed to an audience of nearly 200 in Dodd Hall on March 2nd, Tim Weiner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times and author of "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Anchor Books), discussed his deeply researched book, which won the 2007 National Book Award for nonfiction. The event was organized by the Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 3/9/2009
The Collapse of Communism in Europe 1989 - Causes and Consequences
A public lecture by JURGEN KOCKA, Free University Berlin; Visiting Professor, UCLA, History
Posted: 3/9/2009
Drama: The Forgotten Genre
Cody Poulton of the University of Victoria traces the rise and fall of drama as a literary genre in early 20th-century Japan.
Posted: 3/6/2009
Colombian VP: Add Ecological Devastation to Cocaine's Toll
Francisco Santos Calderon, a former journalist and a victim of kidnapping himself by the Medellin drug cartel, came to campus with a message: cocaine use is killing Colombia's tropical rainforests, poisoning its rivers and land with toxic chemicals used in production of the drug, and ravaging a fragile ecosystem that sustains species of birds, amphibians, reptiles and plants that can be found nowhere else on this planet.
Posted: 2/27/2009
Lessons in Buddhism from an Iconoclastic Scholar
In his Faculty Research Lecture on March 10, Gregory Schopen hopes to illuminate a little-known aspect of Buddhism: the fact that it was one of the earliest social organizations in India to develop what might be called a corporation.
Posted: 2/26/2009
Roma Economic Strategies in Postsocialist Romania
A public lecture by GABRIEL TROC, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
Posted: 2/25/2009
Whose Buddhism and Which Science?
Donald S. Lopez Jr. of the University of Michigan seeks to explain why some Buddhists and some scientists have been so eager, for a century and a half, to assert the compatibility of two very different ways of seeking knowledge.
Posted: 2/25/2009
Venues of Transformation
Damola Osinulu, a doctoral student in the Department of World Arts and Cultures, took his International Fieldwork Fellowship to Lagos, Nigeria, to understand why at least a million Pentecostal worshippers come together just north of the city.
Posted: 2/24/2009
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