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A Deal with Iran is Possible, Peace is Not
The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is not irrational—the current regime needs conflict with the United States to perpetuate itself in power, said Professor Mansour Farhang. He advised the United States to reach an implicit understanding with the regime that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons.
Posted: 4/9/2013
Key policy makers and scholars discuss causes and consequences of drug-related violence in Latin America
WATCH: Video footage from two-day conference on organized crime, corruption and drug trafficking in Latin America.
Posted: 4/8/2013
Profile of Nile Green
This engaging portrait of UCLA History Professor Nile Green, who is the director of the Program on Central Asia, was published in the Winter 2013 edition of "The UCLA College Report," a publication of the College of Letters and Science.
Posted: 4/5/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"An Alternative Approach for Measuring Drug Related Crime in Consuming Nations." Talk by Rosalie Pacula
Posted: 4/5/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico: Would Legalizing Marijuana
in the United States Help?" Talk by Beau Kilmer, Comments by Adriana Lleras.
Posted: 4/5/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"Drug Violence in Mexico: Data and Analysis through 2012." Talk by David Shirk, comments by Alejandro Poiré.
Posted: 4/5/2013
VIDEO:"Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"Cross‐Border Spillover: U.S.Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico." Talk by Oeindrila Dube, comments by Leah Boustan.
Posted: 4/5/2013
VIDEO:"Illegal Drug markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"The Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Violence in Mexico." Talk by Gabriela Calderon, comments by Daniel Ortega.
Posted: 4/5/2013
VIDEO:"Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"Violent Corruption and Violent Lobbying: Logics of Cartel‐State Conflict in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia." Talk by Ben Lessing, comments by Helsky Bar‐Isaac.
Posted: 4/5/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"Collusion, Price Competition and Inter‐gang Violence." Talk by Joao de Mello, comments by Andres Zambrano.
Posted: 4/4/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"On the Effectiveness of Anti-drug Public Expenditures: Evidence from Coca Producers in Colombia." Talk by Sandra Rozo, comments by Christian Dippel.
Posted: 4/4/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"The Economics of the War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking." Talk by Pascual Restrepo, comments by César Martinelli.
Posted: 4/4/2013
VIDEO: Illegal Drug markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America" Conference
Keynote Address, "Violence-minimizing Drug Law Enforcement" by Mark Kleiman
Posted: 4/4/2013
The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang, Bennington College. Part of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.
Posted: 4/2/2013
How do you teach the Arab Spring?
A recent course on the Arab Spring taught by CMED Director Steven Spiegel invited specialists from around the country and UCLA to lecture on individual countries—some in person and some via a videoconferencing link.
Posted: 4/1/2013
PODCAST- At the Crossroads: Medicine and Culture in Latin America
Listen to presentations by anthropologists and clinicians on health and culture in Latin America.
Posted: 4/1/2013
The post-Fukushima world: Interconnected and fragile
Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, former Chairman of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (2011–2012), and Professor Hitoshi Abe, Director of the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, addressed different aspects of the post-Fukushima world in a symposium on March 22, 2013.
Posted: 3/27/2013
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos
A series of films directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Posted: 3/26/2013
East meets west in a portrait: A conversation with Korean art scholar Burglind Jungmann
UCLA Professor Burglind Jungmann, a member of the core faculty of the Center for Korean Studies, speaks about her work and Rubens's drawing, "Man in Korean Costume," on exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Posted: 3/25/2013
Empowering girls to achieve in Rwanda
A $1 million grant has been awarded to the UCLA African Studies Center (ASC) for a capacity-building partnership with the Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) of Rwanda.
Posted: 3/25/2013
Reveal the truth, but don’t hit people over the head with it!
Author and Los Angeles Times journalist Hector Tobar discusses immigration and the Latin American experience in his works.
Posted: 3/21/2013
Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala is quoted in The Guardian's article on the U.S. Constitution
Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala is quoted in The Guardian's article "Charles Krauthammer's false statement about the US Constitution."
Posted: 3/20/2013
Culture matters, especially in medicine
A Latin America Institute symposium finds that culture greatly influences how indigenous communities in Mexico, Central and South America experience Western medicine.
Posted: 3/14/2013
Double Feature Lecture: Prof. Feng Shi and Prof. Miao Zhe
Natural Color and Philosophical Color:
A Study on the Origin of the Theory of the Relation between Colors and Directions in China
by Feng Shi (Institute of Archaeology, CASS)
From the Lingguang Palace to the Wu Liang Shrine
Some Traces of the Imperial Art from the Late Western Han and Early Eastern Han Periods
by Miao Zhe (Zhejiang University)
Posted: 3/14/2013
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