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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
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
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
UCLA Receives Grant to Develop Heritage Classes
New UCLA Language Resource Center offers specialized instruction for students with background in a language
Posted: 12/11/2006
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
UCLA Digital Library Presents International HIV/AIDS Posters
Online collection of 625 posters from worldwide public health campaigns marks World AIDS Day.
Posted: 11/30/2006
Middle East Series Goes On
Cal State Stanislaus professor speaks on current condition of Lebanese politics
Posted: 11/29/2006
UCLA Center Launches National Effort to Understand, Educate 'Heritage' Speakers
With a new National Language Resource Center, the federal government is recognizing that the preservation of U.S. language communities will not be accomplished with approaches aimed at monolingual Americans.
Posted: 11/29/2006
$10M Gift to Save Global Heritage
The gift will support major initiatives at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, including the recruitment of top faculty and graduate students, who will be able to embark upon projects and digs around the globe.
Posted: 11/27/2006
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
Sondhi's 'New Time' Journalism
In an on-camera interview with AsiaMedia, media mogul and anti-Thaksin activist Sondhi Limthongkul said corruption in Thailand has forced his news reporting into a journalism-activism hybrid.
Posted: 11/22/2006
Journalist Discusses Recent Thai Coup
Sondhi Limthongkul speaks on campus about what led to the government’s overthrow by the military. The talk was sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Posted: 11/21/2006
'After Bach': UCLA Live Welcomes Latvian Violinist Gidon Kremer
Joined by pianist Andrius Zlabys and percussionist Andrei Pushkarev, Kremer on Nov. 19 will perform celebrated works composed or influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Posted: 11/17/2006
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