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Inventing Human Rights: A History
A book discussion with author LYNN HUNT, UCLA History, and discussant DAVID KAYE, UCLA Law
Posted: 5/9/2008
European Classical Meets Japanese Nagauta
Terasaki Chair Thomas Rimer discusses the beginnings of Western classical music in Japan and the life of Japan's first well-known composer.
Posted: 5/8/2008
Hypermedia Berlin and the Geo-Temporal Web
A CEES faculty lecture by TODD PRESNER, UCLA Germanic Languages
Posted: 5/8/2008
Ravishing
On May 7th, MAKE ART/STOP AIDS and the International Institute will host AIDS|SIDA - Global Updates, Art, and Performance, from 1 to 5pm, Kaufman Hall 200. Noel Alumit reviews the exhibition now at the Fowler Museum.
Posted: 5/7/2008
A Fiddle's Deep Roots
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is an international expert on things she once snubbed, with articles on gospel and spirituals and a new book on fiddling, "Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures."
Posted: 5/6/2008
Special Forum on Post-1998 Indonesia, with guest speakers Nursyahbani Katjasungkana and Hilmar Farid
This special forum was held in conjunction with the UC Berkeley-UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, with the theme "Ten Years After: Reformasi and New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008".
Posted: 4/25/2008
10 Questions for Richard Baum
A crackdown on protesters in Tibet last month triggered demonstrations in London and Paris amid the running of the Olympic torch, effectively turning this summer's sporting contest in Beijing into what some are calling the "Human Rights Games." Richard Baum, veteran Sinologist and professor of political science, talked to Staff Writer Ajay Singh about China's decades-old Tibet challenge.
Posted: 4/22/2008
Killing Memory: Ethnicity, Religion and the Destruction of Culture in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s
A public lecture by Andras Riedlmayer, Harvard University delivered on April 15, 2008.
Posted: 4/22/2008
Killing Memory: Ethnicity, Religion and the Destruction of Culture in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s
A public lecture by Andras Riedlmayer, Harvard University delivered on April 15, 2008.
Posted: 4/22/2008
Novels and Iranian History: Beyond Diaspora
A public lecture and reading by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Ecole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg, France, delivered on April 16, 2008.
Posted: 4/22/2008
Hyper-Driven
Todd Presner, associate professor of Germanic Languages and Jewish Studies and self-described "techie-humanist," is the mind behind Hypermedia Berlin, an online geodatabase that enables visitors to virtually explore the famous German city layer by layer and era by era.
Posted: 4/21/2008
The Changing Concept of the "Intellectual" in Iran Today
A public lecture by Ramin Jahanbegloo, University of Toronto, delivered on April 14, 2008.
Posted: 4/18/2008
Language from Scratch
According to Derek Bickerton of the U of Hawaii, the convergent evolution of creole languages permits us a window into the "default settings" of human speech.
Posted: 4/15/2008
The Ruins of Memory: The Writing of Brahmin Self in South India
Talk by Dilip Menon, University of Delhi. 4/11/08.
Posted: 4/11/2008
Art of the Kimono
Kimono stylist Nobuaki Tomita explains the kimono-making process, while showcasing his work and discussing the traditional Japanese costume's history.
Posted: 4/9/2008
Saul Friedlander Wins Pulitzer for History of Nazi Holocaust
The 2008 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction goes to the occupant of UCLA's 1939 Club Chair in Holocaust Studies, for the second volume of his seminal history.
Posted: 4/7/2008
The Roma in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: Marginalization and Resistance
A public lecture by GABRIEL TROC, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, Cultural Anthropology
Posted: 4/7/2008
The Place of Balkan Muslims in the Shaping of European Islam
A public lecture by XAVIER BOUGAREL, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series.
Posted: 4/5/2008
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Jiang Wenye's Music & Poetry
A talk by David Der-wei Wang, in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies
Posted: 4/4/2008
Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
A book presentation by author ADRIENNE EDGAR, UC Santa Barbara, History.
Posted: 4/4/2008
Off the Radar Screen: The Unacknowledged Struggle to Protect Kosova's Islamic Traditions
A public lecture by ISA BLUMI, Georgia State University, History. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series.
Posted: 4/3/2008
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
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Gen. Clark Comments on Torture
The Washington Monthly, March 2008
Posted: 3/17/2008
Danish Ambassador Touts 'Dangerous' Example
How Denmark stays progressive, pro-U.S., and thoroughly multilateral, as explained by Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen, the country's top representative in Washington.
Posted: 3/14/2008
Blind Eye in Burma
Multinational corporations that partner with the Burmese military and military-led government share the responsibility for human rights abuses, argue two representatives of EarthRights International at UCLA.
Posted: 3/12/2008
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