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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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Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times: Chinese Documentaries of the 1980s and ’90s

A weekend of screenings at the Gardena Cinema, hosted by film critic and programmer Sam C. Mac.

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Jaipur Literature Festival Los Angeles

Join us for a special sneak peek of the 2027 JLF Los Angeles, a weeklong international edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival

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The Current State of the Iran War

Join us on September 24th for a webinar on the current state of the Iran War featuring General (Reserve) Tamir Hayman, Executive Director of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University and former director of Israeli Defense Intelligence.

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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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Dealing with Dictatorships: German Interactions with Worldwide Autocracies since the 1950s

Frank Bösch on Germany's engagement with dictatorships across the globe and a new perspective on the history of the Federal Republic.

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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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Environmental Diplomacy: A Key to Middle East Peace

Join us on October 5th for a webinar with Gidon Bromberg, Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East, about efforts to address water shortages and climate change impacts in the Middle East.

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The 2026-27 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture

Evan Gershkovich, foreign correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

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RED ALERT (Episode 1)

An in-person screening of Episode 1 of “Red Alert”, a four-part scripted series depicting the harrowing true-life events of October 7, 2023 in Israel near the Gaza border.

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