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The October 2026 Israeli Elections: Is a New Government Possible?

A webinar on Israel's upcoming pivotal elections featuring David Makovsky, the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, co-hosted by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley.

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Migration across the Americas II

We will be hosting our conference, Migration across the Americas II: Cross-Border Connections and People on the Move, on September 25th at UCLA, 9am–4pm.

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2026 Annual Heritage Language Schools Conference

This conference brings together everyone who is interested in learning about, collaborating with, and advocating for community-based HL schools. Participants typically include directors and administrators of community-based HL schools, teachers, members of the language communities, representatives of public schools, researchers in the field of HL education, and leaders of national language organizations.

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The 2026-27 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture

Evan Gershkovich, foreign correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

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Sufis in Premodern Persianate Societies and Politics: 2026 Levi Della Vida Award and Conference Honoring Richard Eaton

The 2026 Giorgio Levi Della Vida conference and award ceremony honoring Professor Richard Eaton (University of Arizona).

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The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East

Kim Ghattas, Middle East expert, author, and Emmy-award-winning journalist

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The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin and the Decline of Modern Russia

A talk by journalist Mikhail Fishman on how Russia lost its chance of freedom.

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