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Student Perspectives

Please enjoy these articles written by UCLA students affiliated with the International Institute

  • South African Heritages and Their Owners
    On a trip to Cape Town, Laura Foster, an attorney and UCLA doctoral student in women's studies, discovers that intellectual property rights are not marginal concerns for marginalized and historically oppressed communities. They're near the center of efforts to reclaim and reaffirm cultures.
  • Hip Hop Working Group
    The Graduate Quarterly profiles UCLA students who are looking at a global movement in music from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
  • Letter from Gyumri: Faith into Action
    Epifania Amoo-Adare, a former UCLA graduate student in Education and staffer at the UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa, writes about her work in the South Caucasus.
  • Women's Studies Branches Out
    The UCLA Graduate Quarterly reports on international directions in women's studies. Three graduate students are profiled.
  • For the Grins
    The question of why to study the Quechua language has any number of easy answers.
  • Young Scholars Discuss Beauty, Ramen Noodles
    "Images of a Nation: Approaches to the Aesthetics of Japan," a symposium, brings graduate students from across the nation to UCLA.

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