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The Complicated Lives of Gay Men in South Korea
According to anthropologist John Cho, single gay men in South Korea retreated from gay life in the wake of the 1997 Asian banking crisis and began to concentrate on making money, while married gay men became much more active in the gay community.
Posted: 4/10/2013
Profile of Nile Green
This engaging portrait of UCLA History Professor Nile Green, who is the director of the Program on Central Asia, was published in the Winter 2013 edition of "The UCLA College Report," a publication of the College of Letters and Science.
Posted: 4/5/2013
The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang, Bennington College. Part of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.
Posted: 4/2/2013
How do you teach the Arab Spring?
A recent course on the Arab Spring taught by CMED Director Steven Spiegel invited specialists from around the country and UCLA to lecture on individual countries—some in person and some via a videoconferencing link.
Posted: 4/1/2013
Stanley Kramer’s political critique of the Nuremberg Trials
Author and scholar Elisabeth Bronfen discusses a chapter from her book Specters of War:
Hollywood's Engagement with Military Conflict, explaining how Stanley Kramer uses film to critique the Nuremberg trials.
Posted: 3/14/2013
Iran and the Rise of the 21st Century Intellectuals
A lecture in Persian by Ata Hoodashtian, Institut Canadien de Management. Commentary by Dr. Ali Akbar Mahdi follows.
Posted: 3/12/2013
From Ad Hoc to Ongoing: The Mongol Invasions and the Institutionalization of Authority in Japan
A lecture by Thomas Conlan, Bowdoin College. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
Mongol Caucasia: Regional Historiographies and Social Change in an Integrating Eurasian World
A lecture by Steve Rapp, Sam Houston State University. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
No One Knew Who They Were: Russian Interaction with the Mongols
A lecture by Charles Halperin, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
Reception and (Mis)representation: Mongol Influences on China from the Perspective of Law and Gender
A lecture by Bettine Birge, USC. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
The changing role of women in Cilician Armenian court as a result of interacting with the Mongols
A lecture by Zara Pogossian, Bochum University/John Cabot College (Rome). Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
The Mongol Contribution to Eurasian History
Keynote lecture by Morris Rossabi, Distinguished Professor of History, Queens College, CUNY. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
The Mongols and the New World History
Opening Remarks by Sebouh Aslanian, Assistant Professor & Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/11/2013
Cambodian Americans Re-Member the Genocide of the Khmer Rouge
According to scholar Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Cambodian American artists are providing new interpretations of the Khmer Rouge period that go beyond the previous frame established by the movie,“The Killing Fields.” Their works critique the strategic amnesia of the United States regarding twentieth-century Cambodian history and are re-scripting the Cambodian experience so that it is not exclusively about trauma.
Posted: 3/8/2013
The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History
Opening Remarks by Nile Green, Professor & Director of the Program on Central Asia. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."
Posted: 3/8/2013
The Persistence of the Past: How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affect Our World Today
A lecture by Ronald Grigor Suny. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA
Posted: 3/8/2013
Dispensing Justice on Screen: Stanley Kramer's "Judgment at Nuremberg"
A public lecture by Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich, English and American Studies.
Posted: 3/7/2013
Discourse and Power in a Postwar European Periphery: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
A public lecture by Danijela Majstorovic, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies Fulbright Fellow and Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia.
Posted: 2/21/2013
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965
A book talk with author John Connelly, UC Berkeley, History. Discussant: Paul Lerner, USC, History.
Posted: 2/14/2013
The Élysée Treaty: Celebrating 50 Years of Franco-German Cooperation
A panel discussion marking the fiftieth anniversary of the post-war French-German reconciliation by the signing of the Élysée Treaty on January 22nd, 1963. Speakers: Dr. Bernd Fischer, Consul General of Germany, and Mr. Axel Cruau, Consul General of France. Moderator: Ivan Berend, UCLA History.
Posted: 2/1/2013
The Safety of Journalists
A lecture by Mohammad Manzarpour, BBC Persian Bureau Editor, Washington DC, following the screening of the documentary "The Ayatollah's Seal"
Posted: 1/31/2013
Panel assesses Palestine’s status as ‘observer state’
Several professors from the law school, the Burkle Center of International Relations and the UCLA Center of Middle East Development spoke at the panel, which primarily focused on the question of Palestinian statehood.
Posted: 1/25/2013
Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, the Opposition and the End of East German Socialism
A book talk with author Andreas Glaeser, University of Chicago, Sociology. Discussant: Gail Kligman, UCLA, Sociology.
Posted: 1/10/2013
A Night of Poetry with Renowned Iranian Poet: Houshang Ebtehaj (Sayeh)
A reading in Persian by Houshang Ebtehaj (Sayeh) on Sunday, December 09, 2012
Posted: 12/17/2012
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