Approaching Vietnamese Refugee Stories from a Transnational, Critical Framework
UCLA Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi shares about her background in comparative research and how that led to rooting her work in Indigenous and critical refugee studies.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 READ MORE
Recent Conference Explores Political Discourse within the Contemporary Middle East
Friday, January 8, 2021 READ MORE
What the past offers contemporary racial justice movements
Christine Hong and Ann Garland Mahler examined past social justice movements that explicitly linked racism to capitalism, fascism and imperialism. These movements of the 20th century, they argued, offer a powerful transnational solidarity framework for racial justice movements today.
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 READ MORE
Jason Cong named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Cong, Volgenau Professor for Engineering Excellence and distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA, was one of four Bruin faculty named NAI fellows in 2020.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 READ MORE
Faculty Q&A: Biden and the Future of U.S.-Israel Relations
UCLA Professor Dov Waxman, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies and the director of the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, talks about President-elect Joe Biden and the future of U.S.-Israel relations.
Monday, December 14, 2020 READ MORE
Indonesian film cast honors teachers through new Netflix movie
The team behind Netflix's Crazy Awesome Teachers share their insights and experiences from production in the final event for the 2020 Los Angeles Indonesian Film Festival.
International Education Week 2020 rises to the pandemic challenge
UCLA's virtual celebration of International Education Week 2020 drew the enthusiastic participation of units and students across the campus.
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 READ MORE
Examining Indigenous land rights through legal frameworks
The last panel in the webinar series on Indigenous peoples and community-engaged research in Asia Pacific discusses Indigenous rights to land and resources and the legal policies that shape governance today.
Friday, December 4, 2020 READ MORE
Embracing dignity as the path away from racism
Anna Spain Bradley, vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, spoke on “Global Racism and the Role of Education” at the virtual UCLA Global Conversation on November 18. Her remarks affirmed that embracing and enacting human dignity — the core principle of human rights — offers a powerful antidote to racism.
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 READ MORE
Cambodian American identity through the eyes of Jolie Chea
UCLA Professor Jolie Chea tells the story of their upbringing and political activation in Los Angeles and how they came to ethnic and Asian American studies.
Monday, November 30, 2020 READ MORE