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Authentic 'Kujiki'
Northern Illinois University's John R. Bentley pokes holes in the view that 'Sendai Kuji Hongi' ('Kujiki') is a derivative historical text.
Posted: 3/24/2008
Mardi Gras, Middle Eastern Style
The fact that New Orleans has a very small Middle Eastern population doesn't stop carnival krewes--organizations that put on parade and balls for the carnival season--from pulling out all the stops on the road to a make-believe Mecca.
Posted: 3/24/2008
Dormant Argentina
Argentine director Fernando "Pino" Solanas screens and discusses his 2007 documentary about his country's achievements in science and engineering.
Posted: 3/10/2008
Welcome to the New Language Classroom
Innovative language teaching doesn't have to be high-tech, but in a new media age the foreign language classroom is changing. This newly launched website looks into how.
Posted: 3/10/2008
Invoking the 'Righteous Spirit'
Brandeis University's Matthew Fraleigh explains how the 'shishi' passed on Chinese poetic traditions by reinventing the poem "The Song of the Righteous Spirit."
Posted: 2/20/2008
Please Listen, People: Addressing HIV/AIDS in Bengali Scroll Paintings
on display at the Fowler Museum, March 16 through July 12, 2008
Posted: 2/12/2008
UCLA-Dutch Team Uncovers Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement
The findings, which were unearthed in 2006 and are still being analyzed, also suggest possible trade links with the Red Sea, including a thoroughfare from Mesopotamia, which is known to have practiced agriculture 2,000 years before ancient Egypt.
Posted: 2/12/2008
International Institute Grants Boost 8 Faculty Projects
The next round of applications for UCLA International Institute faculty grants, for globally oriented outreach and research, is due on March 3, 2008.
Posted: 2/11/2008
Blackwater and Democracy
Americans are not less sensitive to the deaths of private soldiers in wars than they are to those of regular U.S. troops, UC-Irvine political scientist Deborah Avant and a colleague discovered. But the use of security contractors in combat zones has other implications for a democracy, she tells a UCLA audience. Listen to a podcast of her talk.
Posted: 2/7/2008
Music for a Goddess
A new release from CISA ethnomusicologists Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
Posted: 2/4/2008
Week Explores South Asian Heritage
South Asian Heritage Week at UCLA. Article from the Daily Bruin.
Posted: 2/4/2008
World Journos Take Briefing on US Elections
Editors and correspondents from 18 nations and five continents met with a UCLA political scientist and the chairman of California's Republicans on campus to prepare for presidential primary debates and Super Tuesday.
Posted: 2/4/2008
Gunter Grass' Peeling the Onion
A book talk with translator MICHAEL HEIM, UCLA Slavic Languages and Literatures, and discussant HANS WAGENER, UCLA Germanic Languages
Posted: 2/1/2008
Zen for Sale
Art historian Kendall Brown explains how the Ryoanji stone garden in Kyoto, Japan, became a commercialized symbol of Zen Buddhism.
Posted: 1/23/2008
Culture Night Depicts Vietnam War
The three-hour-long event depicting a family torn apart by political ideology in the midst of the Vietnamese war was meant to stir up conversation.
Posted: 1/22/2008
Hip Hop Working Group
The Graduate Quarterly profiles UCLA students who are looking at a global movement in music from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Posted: 1/2/2008
The Book that Brought Tolerance to the Enlightenment
UCLAGetty Research Institute digital project revives Europe's first taste of religious tolerance.
Posted: 12/21/2007
Lyman's Life and Law
U of Arizona's Timothy Vance examines the life of the American mining engineer and accidental linguist Benjamin Smith Lyman.
Posted: 12/19/2007
Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
A public lecture by Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington University, on December 11, 2007 as part of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.
Posted: 12/17/2007
Lasting Support for UCLA Buddhist Studies
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai America establishes the Yehan Numata Endowment at the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies and pledges 10 years of additional support. The new funds will bring distinguished visitors and enhance graduate education.
Posted: 12/13/2007
10 Questions for Lynn Hunt
Professor of History Lynn Hunt's 2007 book "Inventing Human Rights: A History" was published with CIA-sponsored "torture flights," "enhanced interrogation techniques" and genocide all in the news. She spoke with UCLA International Institute Senior Writer Kevin Matthews about whether the very idea of human rights is now in danger, and how novels aided the concept's evolution.
Posted: 12/11/2007
National Identity in Postmodern Japanese Dance
U of Tokyo's Tadashi Uchino discusses the birth of Butoh dance and the performance of "children's" bodies in postmodern Japanese dance.
Posted: 12/11/2007
Sheherezada in Exile, or Writing Across the Borders: The Case of Dubravka Ugresic
A public lecture by JASMINA LUKIC, Central European University, Budapest, Gender Studies
Posted: 12/10/2007
Hope, Economic Transformation in Iraqi Marshlands
Peter Reiss, director of a USAID program to restore the world's second-largest wetlands, explains how Saddam Hussein's drainage of the area has altered an ancient culture.
Posted: 11/28/2007
Argentine Justice Speaks on War Crimes
Argibay's lecture was the last of a three-part series of lectures on international criminal law hosted by the UCLA School of Law, the UCLA Latin American Institute and the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.
Posted: 11/14/2007
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