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Hmong: An Endangered People
Economically marginalized in Southeast Asia, the Hmong face assimilation and loss of their culture in the United States.
Posted: 7/7/2004
Government Attacks on Area Specialists Called Disservice to U.S. Middle East Policy
Rashid Khalidi sees perils for the U.S. in empire building while ignoring its own professional Middle East experts and the history of the region.
Posted: 6/29/2004
Remembering the Carnage in Tiananmen: June 4, 1989
A forum at UCLA analyzes the legacy of Tiananmen, and UCLA's Richard Baum interviewed on CNN
Posted: 6/10/2004
"Dysfunctional" State to "Blackmail" State: Paradoxes of the Post-Soviet Transition in Ukraine
A talk by Mykola Riabchuk.
Posted: 6/1/2004
Is Europe Unable to Assimilate Its Growing Islamic Minority?
Peter O'Brien suggests that liberalism leads to xenophobia when it finds it cannot reshape people to its model of life.
Posted: 5/26/2004
Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi Calls for Freeing Political Prisoners in Iran, Removal of U.S. Troops from Iraq
Large turnout from Iranian community in Los Angeles greets feminist human rights activist.
Posted: 5/17/2004
Remembering Rwanda: Ten Years after the Massacres
Award-winning photojournalist Corinne Dufka recalls her time in the midst of the 1994 genocide. She blames the Rwandan state, not tribal violence, for the killings, and castigates the U.S. and the world community for standing by while hundreds of thousands died.
Posted: 5/11/2004
One Year of the Lula Administration
The far left and far right in Brazil are disappointed that Lula government did not usher in a crisis.
Posted: 4/28/2004
Prominent Egyptian Human Rights Activist Looks on the Bright Side of the Middle East
Former political prisoner Saad Eddin Ibrahim presents 7 reasons for optimism for the region.
Posted: 4/27/2004
Middle East Graduate Students Explore Frontiers in UCLA Conference
Jusur, UCLA's graduate student journal of Middle Eastern Studies, sponsors conference on "Limits to the Frontier."
Posted: 4/9/2004
Is Citizenship Being Diluted by Globalization?
Sociologist Saskia Sassen proposes that international business at one end and poor immigrants at the other are shaping a new status of individual rights no longer tied to citizenship in a national state.
Posted: 4/2/2004
Peter Singer at UCLA Critiques President Bush's Ethics
The well-known ethicist and author of the best-selling book "The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush" accuses the president of being more willing to kill Iraqi civilians than warehoused embryos.
Posted: 3/16/2004
UCLA Conference to Honor Centenary of Ralph Bunche, June 3-5, 2004
Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche and the Decolonization of Africa*
Posted: 2/24/2004
Japanese Brazilian Return Migration and the Making of Japan's Newest Immigrant Minority
Dr. Takeyuki Tsuda (UC San Diego) asks: Are Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan a Transnational Community?
Posted: 1/27/2004
Reflections on East Timor after Independence: An Opposition Leader’s Perspective
Fernando de Araujo describes the problems of constructing a democratic infrastructure in the wake of the devastation wrought by Indonesia on his island nation.
Posted: 12/18/2003
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Surveys the Continent
Charles Snyder brings his forty years of work in Africa to bear in a candid view of the continent's leaders, hot spots, and causes for optimism.
Posted: 12/3/2003
Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking in Japan
UCLA Anthropologist reports that one injured woman in seven who is hospitalized in Japan is the victim of spousal violence, while 100,000 women a year are imported as sex workers from poor Asian countries.
Posted: 11/17/2003
Al Jazeera, Radio Sawa Founders Report on Media in the Middle East
Al Jazeera founder Omar Al-Issawi describes the Middle East's most dynamic television station, Norm Pattiz reports on America's new radio outpost in the Arab world.
Posted: 11/4/2003
Report from Sarajevo: Identifying the Missing
Two UCLA students in Bosnia-Herzegovina visit the morgue in Tuzla where missing person specialists seek to unravel the truth about the Serb massacres of Muslim Bosnians in Srebrenica in 1995.
Posted: 6/12/2003
The Subtle Racism of Latin America
Carlos Moore sees a disguised racism permeating Latin American society, invented by Arabs in the Iberian Peninsula.
Posted: 6/2/2003
Rabbi, Palestinian Teach for Peace
UCLA Today features class co-taught by Palestinian doctoral candiate Shawki El-Zatmah, a Palestinian, and Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller. The class is sponsored by the Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 5/29/2003
The Islamist Challenge in Kosova
Will Kosova's rural Muslim population become Europe's own Taliban? The danger is real, according to Isa Blumi, doctoral candidate in history and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. He offered a first-hand view of the current situation in post-conflict Kosova and the politics of international intervention.
Posted: 5/15/2003
The Soviet Famine of 1931-33: Politically Motivated or Ecological Disaster?
Stephen Wheatcroft, Professor of History, University of Melbourne, Australia, presented new information on the famine based on extensive archival data now available on the tragedy of the Soviet countryside, in a talk sponsored by the Center for European & Eurasian Studies on May 5, 2003.
Posted: 5/5/2003
Terrorism vs. Civil Rights: A debate
On Friday April 4th, the Center for European and Eurasian Studies and the UCLA School of Law Program in Public Interest Law sponsored a symposium. Law and politics specialists compared how civil rights are effected when a country is confronted with terrorism.
Posted: 4/4/2003
UCLA's David Schaberg Wins Prize for Best Book on Pre-20th Century China
Association for Asian Studies 2003 Levenson Prize Awarded to David Schaberg's A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography.
Posted: 4/2/2003
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