Global Insights
Perspectives on World Affairs at UCLA
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
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
Wesley Clark: Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?
Clark, a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations, opened the afternoon session for a Nov. 6 conference, "1989: Assessing the Collapse of Communism Twenty Years Later." The conference was organized by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Through Food, Teachers Take Lessons in World Cultures at UCLA
Celebrating 30 years of teacher training programs on campus, the UCLA International Institute this summer dedicated a 10-day workshop to the theme of food in world history and world cultures.
Posted: 9/28/2009
Through Food, Teachers Take Lessons in World Cultures at UCLA
Celebrating 30 years of teacher training programs on campus, the UCLA International Institute this summer dedicated a 10-day workshop to the theme of food in world history and world cultures. Watch a video about the program.
Posted: 9/16/2009
From Baghdad to Stockholm
In an article for Maingate, the American University of Beirut's quarterly magazine, UCLA Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr tells the story of her Iraqi-born classmate Samya, who fled Iraq for Sweden in 2006.
Posted: 9/10/2009
International Institute Cooks Up Recipe for Teacher Success
This year's International Institute summer training program for teachers, a 10-day workshop, traced the evolution of regional and cross-regional food cultures from antiquity to the present day in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Posted: 8/27/2009
Russian Spoken Here: Intensive Language Courses Hit the Streets
More than 400 students took advantage of L.A.'s linguistic diversity this summer by signing up for Language Intensives in L.A., organized by the Center for World Languages and Summer Sessions.
Posted: 8/11/2009
Local Teachers to Eat Up International Studies at UCLA
Rice, chicken, tea. Sounds like a meal, but in a summer class about international food, these staples are a jumping-off point for understanding rice's role in globalization, how rumors about chicken quality represent distrust of the global market and how a British obsession with Chinese tea led to slave raids in the Philippines.
Posted: 7/10/2009
Language Teaching, Meet Innovation
This spring, two centers under the UCLA International Institute went live with standalone, online courses on Azeri and the Iraqi dialect of Arabic and with a custom application that allows instructors to share web-based lessons. Meanwhile, the New Language Classroom has added videos for instructors, and the Language Materials Project launched a portal for K-12 schoolteachers on "less commonly taught" languages.
Posted: 6/17/2009
Students Perform Aleksandr Pushkin's The Little Tragedies
June 7, 2009 performance by UCLA students in Dr. Anna Kudyma's Russian 103 (Russian for Native and Near-native Speakers) of Aleksandr Pushkin's The Little Tragedies, with intermediary scenes by Maia Boudzinskaia.
Posted: 6/7/2009
Changing Religious Landscapes: Why Some Muslims Convert to Christianity-The Case of Central Asia
A Central Asia Initiative Lecture by Olivier Roy
Posted: 6/5/2009
Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin: A Memoir
A book talk with author EMIL DRAITSER, CUNY Hunter College, Russian Division, and discussant DAVID MYERS, UCLA, History
Posted: 6/2/2009
Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration
A book talk with author TODD PRESNER, UCLA, Germanic Languages, and discussant PAUL LERNER, USC, History
Posted: 6/1/2009
Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany
A book talk with author RUTH MANDEL, University College London, Anthropology, and discussant SUSAN OSSMAN, UC Riverside, Anthropology
Posted: 5/29/2009
Shifting Standards in European Human Rights Rulings
In his contribution to an EU-backed project to study the impact of the European Court of Human Rights on selected countries, visiting professor Haldun Gulalp of Turkey's Yildiz Technical University observes the court preferring some models of church- and mosque-state relations to others. In "freedom of religion" cases, France and Turkey fare better than Greece and Bulgaria.
Posted: 5/29/2009
For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
A book talk with author ROBERT CREWS, Stanford University, History, and discussant ADRIENNE EDGAR, UC Santa Barbara, History
Posted: 5/28/2009
Renowned Italian Sculptor Pietro Coletta to Install Piece on Campus Friday
The final piece will be unveiled Tuesday, June 2, at a 5 p.m. reception to coincide with festivities planned in Royce Hall by the Italian Consulate for Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day).
Posted: 5/28/2009
Mass Privatization and the Postcommunist Mortality Crisis
A public lecture by LARRY KING, Cambridge University, Sociology
Posted: 5/27/2009
The Last Soviet Dreamer: Conversations with Leonid Potemkin
A public lecture by JOCHEN HELLBECK, Rutgers University, History
Posted: 5/26/2009
Professor Rogers Brubaker Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
CEES congratulates Professor Brubaker on his election to the American academy of Arts and Sciences!
Posted: 5/1/2009
2 at International Institute Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Among the six new fellows on the UCLA faculty are Sanjay Subrahmanyam, a historian who directs the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, and Rogers Brubaker, a sociologist who serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 4/21/2009
Professor Marina Goldovskaya Receives Scolarship and Preservation Award
CEES congratulates Professor Goldovskaya for receiving the 2008 Scolarship and Preservation Award from the International Documentary Association!
Posted: 4/20/2009
Historian Looks Back on Fall of Communism 20 Years Ago
Visiting professor Jurgen Kocka, a modern social historian at the Free University of Berlin, gave a lecture that kicks off more than a year of talks, conferences and film screenings organized by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies. An international conference about 1989's events and a film series are set for November.
Posted: 3/13/2009
Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic
A book talk with author ROMAN KOROPECKYJ, UCLA, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and discussant BETH HOLMGREN, Duke University, Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Posted: 3/10/2009
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