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China and The World Panel 3: What Can the US Do to Shape China
The May 24 conference at the James West Alumni Center focused on China's engagement on key international issues. It was sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Progress and, from UCLA, the Burkle Center for International Relations, the Center for Chinese Studies and the International Institute.
Posted: 6/23/2010
Closing Remarks at China and the World Conference by Yan Yunxiang and Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.)
Yan Yunxiang is co-director of the Center for Chinese Studies and Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) is a senior fellow with the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 6/23/2010
Dutch University Seeks UCLA's Help with Diversity Issues
For the past eight years, Dutch college officials have been traveling to Westwood to learn how UCLA promotes a multicultural campus. The Dutch delegations are grappling with such issues as xenophobia in their own country, where Muslims make up the largest immigrant group. This summer, VU University Amsterdam signed an agreement with UCLA to work together on promoting diversity by organizing student exchanges, research collaborations and educational programs.
Posted: 6/22/2010
Teshome H. Gabriel, 70, Internationally Recognized Expert on Third World Cinema
The School of Theater, Film and Television, The Los Angeles Times, and a UCLA colleague have published obituaries and appreciations of the Ethiopian-born scholar's life and work.
Posted: 6/17/2010
Questions on China for John Podesta
In keynote remarks delivered at a May conference at UCLA on relations between China and the rest of the world, former White House Chief of Staff and Center for American Progress CEO John Podesta reflects on China's foreign relations with regard to environmental and other issues.
Posted: 6/16/2010
UCLA Historians Explore Birth of Religious Tolerance in Europe
Bernard Picart and Jean Frederic Bernard's "Religious Ceremonies of the World" (1723-37) presented Europe's first sympathetic portrait of Muslims, Jews and followers of such Eastern religions as Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism. It delivered a sensitive portrayal of religious customs and ceremonies among Native Americans, beating Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the concept of the "noble savage" by three decades.
Posted: 6/3/2010
UCLA Conference in Doha Opens with Address by Qatari Emir
At the 5th annual conference on "Enriching the Middle East's Economic Future," held in conjunction with the Doha Forum, distinguished participants search for practical solutions to regional issues. The three-day event has been organized by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development.
Posted: 6/1/2010
Education Secretary Praises NHLRC in Speech
In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan singled out the "innovative" work of the National Heritage Language Resource Center.
Posted: 5/28/2010
Scholars Debate: Is China Becoming a Responsible World Leader?
The fundamental question of whether China is on the path to becoming a responsible stakeholder in world affairs or acting as a revisionist superpower was put to a prestigious group of China scholars from universities and think tanks across the country. Watch video of the keynote address by John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress.
Posted: 5/27/2010
Two Students Change the World, from South LA to Senegal
UCLA alumnus Brian Rishwain gave two $2,500 awards to urban planning doctoral students Ava Bromberg and John Scott-Railton, who brought an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit to social justice work. Scott-Railton is working in poor slums in Senegal to help the residents counteract devastating floods.
Posted: 5/26/2010
'Atomic Mom' Filmmaker Reveals Secret Stories of the Bomb
At a symposium on the anti-nuclear weapons movement, director M.T. Silvia screens and discusses a new film about her mother's role at a Nevada testing site and the story of a Hiroshima survivor; and Steve Leeper, chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, urges action by nonproliferation treaty signatories on disarmament.
Posted: 5/21/2010
Fulbright Keynoter: University's Main Impact Is Moral
UCLA political scientist Susanne Lohmann underscores the value of values in higher education for a regional association of visiting Fulbright scholars. At afternoon and evening events on April 21, UCLA student leaders, foreign scholars and other invited guests assess the university's role in moral education.
Posted: 4/26/2010
Chilling Effect on Muslim Giving Examined at Law Conference
The UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law will devote one of its annual issues to papers emerging from the April 16 meeting on "Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror."
Posted: 4/21/2010
Garcetti: Making L.A. Business-Friendly Will Aid Local Economic Recovery
In an April 15 talk before an overflow audience in a School of Public Affairs classroom, Garcetti laid out some of the most pernicious problems that are undermining L.A.'s efforts to recover from the Great Recession and highlighted some strategies to address them. The lecture was sponsored by the Burkle Center.
Posted: 4/20/2010
Are Native Languages Worth Saving? A Globetrotting Scholar Says Yes
Geography Professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond, the author of books on how societies succeed and fail, argues in a lecture that being bilingual or multilingual is good for cognitive skills, for memory in later years and probably for your country. The Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes was on hand for the discussion.
Posted: 4/14/2010
UCLA International Faculty Take 4 Guggenheim Fellowships
The winners include African Studies Center Director Andrew Apter and Center for Chinese Studies Co-director Yunxiang Yan. The 2010 fellowships will support UCLA research on Roman theater, Byzantine villagers, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and morality in contemporary China.
Posted: 4/14/2010
Festival of Books Preview: Joyce Appleby on Global Capitalism
On Sunday, April 25, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on campus, UCLA Professor Emerita Joyce Appleby will participate in a panel discussion on the U.S. economy. Appleby is the author, most recently, of "The Relentless Revolution: a History of Capitalism" (Norton, 2010). The discussion on Sunday will take place at 11 a.m. in Haines 39.
Posted: 4/13/2010
Haitian Ambassador Outlines Rebuilding Strategy, Thanks UCLA Medical Team
In events at the School of Nursing and the International Institute, Ambassador Raymond Alcide Joseph explains how international pledges to his country will build roads, schools, houses, trade and tourism and support a plan to decentralize the country, moving resources from Port-au-Prince to other regions.
Posted: 4/8/2010
10 Questions with Joyce Appleby
In less than 400 years, capitalism has generated unprecedented wealth and new forms of power, altered prevailing wisdom about human nature, and spread itself far beyond its improbable original setting, a process that the eminent historian Joyce Appleby describes in "The Relentless Revolution: a History of Capitalism" (Norton, 2010). Running all the way to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, the history pauses on the lives of industrialists, adventurers and pamphleteers.
Posted: 3/30/2010
Ruminations on Heritage Languages: A Few (Semi)Radical Thoughts
Podcast by Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University
Posted: 3/23/2010
Questions for Joshua A. Fishman
At an international conference last month, the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA presented the first Joshua Fishman Award for Outstanding Contributions and Leadership in the Heritage Language Field. Before the conference, the center arranged for a telephone interview with Professor Fishman, who shared thoughts on the award, his current work, and a recent honor he received from the Royal Academy of the Basque Language in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.
Posted: 3/12/2010
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Says Spirit of Mexican Revolution Still Alive 100 Years Later
The three-time Mexican presidential contender and key figure in the country's democratic transformation sought to apply revolutionary ideals of equality and shared progress to 21st-century issues such as domestic political participation and international trade.
Posted: 3/11/2010
Christopher Hitchens Decries Anti-Semitism in Lecture at UCLA
Alternating between black humor, biting sarcasm and insightful analysis, the internationally known columnist and author delivered the eighth annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at Korn Convocation Hall to an audience of more than 400 people.
Posted: 3/4/2010
Christopher Hitchens Delivers the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA
In this video, author and journalist Christopher Hitchens delivers the 2010 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture. The lecture was presented by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA.
Posted: 3/3/2010
His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, Delivers Bernard Brodie Lecture
In this video UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers the 2010 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace. He spoke on "Mobilizing the Global Citizenry: the United Nations in a Changing World."
Posted: 3/2/2010
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