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Does 'Fair Trade' Help Those Who Harvest Tea?
As part of the International Human Rights Film Series, the Asia Institute put on a screening and discussion of an award-winning 2008 documentary, "The Bitter Taste of Tea," that takes a skeptical view of the fair trade movement's ability to protect laborers within this global industry. Listen to scholars, fair trade advocates and audience members delve into the issues in this audio podcast.
Posted: 1/27/2010
Between Palestine and the Rand: Settler colonialism, labor and state violence.
A lecture by Zachary Lockman, New York University
Posted: 1/25/2010
Capitalist bi-nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A lecture by Gershon Shafir, UCSD
Posted: 1/25/2010
Creating Nostalgia: European Womens Writing in Colonial Algeria.
A lecture by Patricia Lorcin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Posted: 1/25/2010
Indigenous institution building and 20th century US Indian policy
A lecture by Duane Champagne, UCLA
Posted: 1/25/2010
Settler colonialism past and presenta commentary
A commentary by Joel Beinin, Stanford
Posted: 1/25/2010
Terra Nullius: Its past and some thoughts on today
A lecture by Carole Pateman, UCLA
Posted: 1/25/2010
The settlers ongoing contract: Assimilation and removal in the post-frontier era.
A lecture by Patrick Wolfe, La Trobe University, Australia
Posted: 1/25/2010
UCLA Hosts 1st Conference on Afghan Literature
"Afghanistan in Ink: Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile" focused on works written or recorded in the tumult of the past three decades. Audio podcasts of conference presentations are now available.
Posted: 1/21/2010
Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East
A lecture by Dawn Chatty, Oxford University on January 12, 2010.
Posted: 1/13/2010
East Meets West in Scholar John Duncan
Director of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and a leading light on pre-modern Korea, Duncan has lived comfortably in two cultures since the late 1960s. Duncan is receiving the Korea Foundation Award in Seoul for a lifetime of contributions to Korean studies worldwide.
Posted: 12/15/2009
Arabs, Turks, and Europeans in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Podcast of a lecture by Professor Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota on November 12, 2009.
Posted: 12/10/2009
Ottoman Legacies Then and Now
Podcast of a lecture by Donald Quataert, State University of New York on October 8, 2009.
Posted: 12/10/2009
Career Diplomat and Alumnus Explains Obama's UN Approach
Deputy Permanent U.S. Representative to the U.N. Alejandro Wolff addressed a packed conference room in Bunche Hall on "The Obama Administration's New Approach to the United Nations," in a lecture sponsored by the Burkle Center.
Posted: 12/8/2009
Law Students to Have Front-Seat View at World Climate Talks
Cara Horowitz designed a class around the U.N.'s December conference in Copenhagen and picked six students with environmental law experience to take it. Now they're going on the fieldtrip of a lifetime.
Posted: 12/4/2009
South Korean Central Banker Shares Lessons Learned in Crisis
Dosoung Choi of the Bank of Korea delivers the inaugural lecture in a series jointly sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and Seoul National University. The lectures will look at global issues from Korean vantage points.
Posted: 12/4/2009
Establishing Formal Rules such as Property Rights is a Promising Road to Sustainable Economic Growth and Peace
Elena Panaritis, author of Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), speaks at UCLA.
Posted: 12/2/2009
Many Modernities Ahead
China's rise as a global power will change world politics and culture, not just the economy, argues Martin Jacques in a new book. To look ahead, start by understanding the difference between a nation-state and a civilization-state.
Posted: 11/30/2009
Law Students Take Pulse on Issues of Global Justice at The Hague
After interviewing representatives of states and advocacy organizations at the annual meeting of the International Criminal Court, where the United States has sent official observers for the first time, the students will report their findings and perhaps make recommendations toward a broader U.S. engagement with the court.
Posted: 11/23/2009
Movie Sheds Light on Transnational Families
"Those Who Remain" tells the story of Mexican families who have at least one member working in the United States. On Nov. 18, the UCLA Latin America Institute will be screening the film on campus with co-director Carlos Hagerman present, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 11/18/2009
UCLA Ranks 8th in Foreign Students, 5th in Number Studying Abroad
In a nationwide report released this week, UCLA ranked eighth among U.S. universities in the number of foreign students it hosted during the 2008-09 academic year and was fifth in the number of students it sent abroad to study in 2007-08. UCLA was the only University of California campus listed in the top 10 in either category.
Posted: 11/18/2009
UC-Wide Institute to Address Global Health Woes
Faculty and students from across UC's 10-campus system will join forces in the new University of California Global Health Institute. Thomas Coates, director of the UCLA Program in Global Health, will co-lead the institute.
Posted: 11/18/2009
Europe and America Couldn't Be More Different, Right? Not So Fast, Says a UCLA Historian
Marshalling quantitative comparative data on subjects as diverse as colon cancer deaths and the accuracy of clocks in public settings, Peter Baldwin illustrates how differences between the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe are much smaller than commonly supposed.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Obama Committed to Working with International Institutions, US Official Says
Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer looks at U.S. cooperation on issues from global warming to peacekeeping and human rights.
Posted: 11/3/2009
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