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
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
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
International Education Week at UCLA
Nicholas Entrikin, the vice provost of international studies at UCLA, invites all members of the community to an International Opportunities Fair in Kerckhoff Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 17, and to screenings, exhibitions and forums taking place during International Education Week Nov. 16-20.
Posted: 11/9/2009
Lighting a Fire for Human Rights
When Jack Healey, founder and president of the Human Rights Action Center, came to UCLA on Nov. 5, his purpose was clear: to inspire undergraduates to dedicate themselves to the universal struggle for human rights, as he has done for nearly three decades.
Posted: 11/9/2009
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
Researchers to Use Grant to Improve Water in Tanzania
Professors and students hope to create portable device that could test for contaminants immediately, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 10/22/2009
UCLA's Ambassador of International Admissions
In six decades at UCLA Gloria Nathanson, associate director of Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools, has become an authority on appraising the credentials of students across continents and cultures.
Posted: 10/8/2009
Former Pakistani PM Urges Open Talks on Afghanistan
Shaukat Aziz, who served Pakistan for eight years as finance minister and prime minister, argues in a talk at UCLA that global and regional powers will need to meet with all Afghan factions, the Taliban included, and offer a Marshall Plan for Afghanistan in order to put the country on the right track.
Posted: 10/2/2009
Human Rights Advocate Somaly Mam Speaks on Campus
Somaly Mam, founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation goes into detail about her personal experiences as a survivor of forced prostitution for Daily Bruin Radio. Somaly urges students to visit her website somaly.org in order to read testimonials, look at pictures and learn how to save lives.
Posted: 10/2/2009
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
Exhibit Serves Up History of Tea
Current installation at the Fowler Museum highlights fresh flavors of an ancient brew, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 9/22/2009
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
10 Questions for Nile Green
In his 2009 book, "Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire," Professor Green follows the development of a "barracks Islam" that was practiced by Indian soldiers and their faqir holy men in 19th- and early 20th-century Hyderabad, a princely state then under de facto British rule.
Posted: 9/2/2009
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
Adventures in International Living
Returning UCLA students compare apartment, homestay and dormitory living in foreign countries.
Posted: 8/26/2009
Other Cultures Provide Students Daily Excitement
Returning UCLA students describe their interactions with cultures, people and places abroad.
Posted: 8/26/2009
Study Abroad as Transformative Experience
Returning UCLA students talk about the impact international study will have on their life decisions.
Posted: 8/26/2009
Study Abroad Offers Challenges, Rewards
Returning UCLA students discuss some of the challenges they faced abroad and how they overcame them.
Posted: 8/26/2009
Internationals Turn Out for Language Tutoring
As part of a summer series of lunchtime conversations in eight languages, international visitors from Shanghai Jiao Tong University on Wednesday helped UCLA students with their Mandarin Chinese in the Rolfe Courtyard. About 90 people attended. The U.S. students are enrolled in intensive courses organized by the Center for World Languages and Summer Sessions.
Posted: 8/14/2009
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
VOA, NPR Report: UCLA Course Teaches High School Students Language of Their Parents, Grandparents
In innovative summer courses on campus, speakers of less commonly taught languages such as Hindi, Persian and Russian learn advanced skills and keep their heritages alive.
Posted: 8/4/2009
Gareth Evans: We Must Never Stand By, Allow Genocide
In this video, former Australian Foreign Minister and International Crisis Group President and CEO Gareth Evans explains why the notion of a "responsibility to protect" populations in peril, or R2P, is taking hold internationally. Evans is the author of a landmark report about R2P as a mechanism for stopping genocide and mass atrocities.
Posted: 7/27/2009
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