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    Global health minor continues to flourish

    The popular global health minor of the UCLA International Institute brings together Bruins who major in the social sciences and humanities with life sciences and pre-med majors.

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    “It's important to teach how medicine and health sit within a power structure. They are not outside of it. I think people don't make those connections naturally or easily.” — Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos
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    New works by International Institute scholars span a range of disciplines

    New books by Stephanie Balkwill, Marjorie Elaine, Shaina Potts and David Kim arrive this fall.

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Utpal Sandesara brings new expertise, courses to global health program

In his first year of teaching for the International Institute's global health minor, Sandesara created two new electives for the program.

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UCLA Fulbright awardees will soon depart for global destinations

Five recent graduates and one faculty member will conduct research and promote cultural exchanges in locations such as Cambodia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Vietnam.

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International Institute fellowship fills crucial gap in dissertation research funding

The UCLA International Institute recently awarded 25 fellowships to defray the travel costs associated with dissertation fieldwork. Fellowship recipients — all UCLA doctoral candidates — will travel to 25 countries on four continents to conduct research this summer and, in a few cases, this fall.

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Lifelong anticolonial activist makes significant estate bequest to CNES

The Elaine and Mokhtar Mokhtefi Endowment at CNES will support fellowships and scholarships for students from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) who study the history and cultures of the region at UCLA.

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Creating the global university: How Gene Block built bridges from Westwood to the world

A tireless traveler, UCLA's outgoing chancellor has taken an in-person, hands-on approach to positioning the university as a major player on the international stage.

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Della Vida Conference explores Arabic language and identity in early Islamic period

The conference featured keynote addresses by the joint winners of the 2024 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Awards: historian Michael Cook and Islamic law professor and jurist Hossein Modarressi, both of Princeton University.

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The Promise of Cameroon

Two recently appointed co-directors of the UCLA Congo Basin Institute aim to map the rain forest system of the Congo River in partnership with African scientists, in keeping with the institute's long tradition of cultivating ongoing professional relationships with African researchers and their students.

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Sep 23, 2024. Writing in Scientific American with co-author Deisy Del Real (USC), Cecilia Menjívar (UCLA sociology and Center for Study of International Migration) details how "a new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, globally undermining democracies... Read More
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Jun 26, 2024. Steve Zipperstein, a global studies lecturer at the International Institute, was awarded a 2024 Hertie School of Governance Teaching Award after teaching his first course at the private graduate school in Berlin this spring. Zipperstein also teaches regularly... Read More
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Jun18, 2024. The Foundation of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association has awarded UCLA professor Tejas Parasher (political science & International Institute) the 2024 Best First Book Award for his monograph, “Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought”... Read More

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A Year After October 7: Reclaiming the Humanist Legacy of Zionism10Oct2024

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies

A Year After October 7: Reclaiming the Humanist Legacy of Zionism

Upon the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger will present the case for...

Appreciation of Kunqu Opera Performance: Techniques and Characteristics10Oct2024

Center for Chinese Studies

Appreciation of Kunqu Opera Performance: Techniques and Characteristics

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Appropriating Classic Urdu Poetry in Bombay Cinema Qawwali10Oct2024

Center for India and South Asia

Appropriating Classic Urdu Poetry in Bombay Cinema Qawwali

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Los Angeles Indonesian Film Festival 202412Oct2024

Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Los Angeles Indonesian Film Festival 2024

Join us for the launch of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies

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Supporting Integration And Human Rights Of Displaced Persons: A Project For Armenia

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