[Non-CKS] 19th Korea–America Student Conference

Applications are officially open for the 19th Korea–America Student Conference (KASC 19) — a three-week academic and cultural exchange connecting college students from Korea and the United States.

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Koreans in Cosmopolis - Intercultural Encounters in Late Chosŏn Korea

This 2-Day international conference brings together scholars from East Asia and north America to explore the impacts of cultural encounters across East Asia in the three centuries following the Injin War.

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Sonidos Reciclados, Futuros Renovados: La Historia de la Orquesta de Cateura

Learning from Latin American Outreach Series | Event will be held in Spanish

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LAI 2025 Fall Reception

Join us for the Latin American Institute’s 2025 Fall Reception

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Saving Our Planet: A Top Global Priority

An Address at UCLA by His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia

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Flavors of the Archipelago: A Photographic Exploration of Philippine Foodways

Launch of the photographic exhibit by Francisco A. Datar at the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

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Batanes Food Stories: How Survival Meals Became Prestige Dishes

Opening lecture as part of launch of the "Flavors of the Archipelago: A Photographic Exploration of Philippine Foodways" Exhibit

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Waiting for their War to Come: Tibetan Soldiers Guarding Indian Borderlands

This talk by Ishani Dasgupta (University of Wisconsin, Madison) examines the liminal identities of Tibetan refugee soldiers in India’s Special Frontier Force (SFF). Drawing on interviews with veterans in Bylakuppe’s old age home, the study reveals how the Indian nation-state exploits refugee communities for military labor while having denied them citizenship, pension, and official recognition. At the same time, it...

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Global Intersections

Two Presentations from Japanese Scholars

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Duan Chengshi (ca. 803–863) and the Culture of Informal Storytelling in Medieval China

Talk by Manling Luo, Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington.

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