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A World of Conflict
Listen to a UCLAradio story about a documentary screening by Kevin Sites, a pioneering solo journalist for Yahoo! News, on war zones around the world. The event was presented by AsiaMedia, sponsored by the UCLA International Institute, Latin American Center, African Studies Center and Asia Institute.
Posted: 5/1/2007
Online Conflict Reporting Hits the Big Screen
Pioneering solo journalist Kevin Sites screens his film about the civilian cost of war.
Posted: 5/1/2007
Leading Buddhist Studies Program Eyes Tibetan Gap
Center events on Tibetan Buddhism are part of an effort to create a UCLA chair in the field. On May 23, a high-ranking Buddhist abbot and a U of Michigan professor will read the poetry of a modern Tibetan monk in the original language and in English translation.
Posted: 4/30/2007
Q&A: Nina Sylvanus
A UCLA Global Fellow discusses West African women's longstanding influence on a global market in textiles, and the emerging role of Chinese manufacturers. Sylvanus is organizing an April workshop at UCLA on China's role in Africa.
Posted: 4/24/2007
Web Journalists Keep Discerning Eye on Asia
AsiaMedia's focus on global dimensions will be evident on April 27 when it will screen a documentary film by Yahoo! News reporter Kevin Sites about his solo journeys across 22 war zones over a year.
Posted: 4/24/2007
Women Politicians from Mexico Advocate Change
Representatives of four Mexican political groupings discuss the limited participation of women in politics and seek to build on reforms.
Posted: 4/24/2007
'American Islam Crystallized After 9/11'
CUNY's Mehdi Bozorgmehr, a sociology PhD from UCLA who directs a research center on both the Middle East and Middle Eastern Americans, explains the importance of religious identity in post-9/11 advocacy for groups affected by backlash.
Posted: 4/16/2007
Lebanon War Coverage Dissected at Conference
A discussion among two Los Angeles Times editors, one historian, and a UCLA audience exposes gaps in expectations about how violence gets reported.
Posted: 4/5/2007
News Accuracy in Israel-Lebanon Conflict Questioned
Because so many sources recording the war differed on reported facts, the war left international media and historians arguing over who started it and who the true victors of the war were, several speakers said. The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies was a co-sponsor of this event, organized by the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Group.
Posted: 4/4/2007
An Iraqi Woman's Bleak Perspective
"I tried to imagine what I would feel like if I had to move to Sweden at the age of 72 with uncertain residence status and my family left behind in my own country which was torn apart by war," writes UCLA Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr in the Palisadian-Post.
Posted: 4/3/2007
U.S. Entry Process Frustrates Students, Scholars
A survey conducted by research director Shideh Hanassab of the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars found widespread frustration with U.S. visa and immigration processes.
Posted: 3/26/2007
UCLA Faculty Craft 2 New Research Fields
Under proposals submitted by Professors Andrew Apter and Rogers Brubaker, each with a collaborator at another campus, the Social Science Research Council will steer dissertation writers towards "Black Atlantic Studies" and "Rethinking Europe."
Posted: 3/15/2007
Divestment Was Just the Beginning
To call attention to ongoing violence in Darfur, committee plans week of events
Posted: 3/8/2007
Experts Explore Nuclear Issues
The spread of nuclear weapons is a pressing issue the United States must recognize and address, experts said during a two-day conference on campus this week.
Posted: 3/8/2007
Here to Havana
Ben Caldwell, a filmmaker, CalArts faculty member, and founder of a community arts organization, wants to change attitudes about language and race. Caldwell's guest lecture was part of a course on African Ethnographic Film taught by Professor David Blundell.
Posted: 3/1/2007
Buswell's AAS Election in the News
Professor Robert Buswell's election to the presidency of the Association for Asian Studies attracts attention from Korean-language media.
Posted: 2/22/2007
UC delegates aim to forge partnership with India
In an effort to establish a partnership based on education and research with Indian government officials, several University of California professors and administrators are traveling to India this weekend.
Posted: 2/16/2007
Experts Discuss Power a President Should Have
Lawyers and professors from around the country came together at UCLA on Feb. 9 to give their legal and historical perspectives on the topic of executive power.
Posted: 2/12/2007
IVB Hosted 6 Foreign Delegations in January
Lord David Sainsbury led a seven-member group from the UK charged with reviewing the impact of national and regional governmental interventions in science and innovation.
Posted: 2/12/2007
Speaker to Discuss Rights, Writers
Visiting humanities professor to lecture on African activism, literature, and liberties
Posted: 2/8/2007
An African Love Affair
UCLA visual culture scholars Allen and Polly Roberts have spent two lifetimes studying and celebrating the profound mysteries, hidden cultures and timeless beauty of one of the most fascinating places on Earth.
Posted: 2/7/2007
He Brings International Issues to Public's Attention
In his new post at the Burkle Center, Raustiala said he will take advantage of UCLA's West Coast setting to "focus on areas where we can really move the debate forward," including Latin America and the Pacific Rim, while still "covering the waterfront of international relations."
Posted: 2/7/2007
Lost in Translation? It's the L.A. Way
Three students, under the aegis of the Center for World Languages, part of the International Institute, launched a monthly online journal that celebrates L.A. and its astonishing linguistic diversity.
Posted: 2/7/2007
UCLA's Buswell Elected 1st Koreanist to Lead Asian Studies
In 2008, Robert Buswell will become president of the Association for Asian Studies, the largest group of its kind. It's a breakthrough for UCLA and Korean studies alike and may owe to the unusually wide expertise of this one-time Buddhist monk.
Posted: 2/7/2007
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
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