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[Non-CKS] 580th Hangeul Day Festival

Come and enjoy variety of Korean cultural experiences including hanbok try-on, traditional games such as Tuho, Jegichagi, Yutnori, and Ttakji-chigi. You can also participate in traditional-pattern keychain making.

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Sardar Patel Award Ceremony at the UCLA Alumni Center

We are absolutely delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 Sardar Patel Award: Dr. Manav Kapur, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

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From Rescue to Resettlement: Post-Genocide Recovery and the Search for a Home from the Middle East to Madagascar

A hybrid lecture by Dr. Edita Gzoyan, lecturer at the American University of Armenia and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, followed by a discussion with Dr. Taner Akcam, director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the PAI.

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The Unruly Facts of Race

Early twentieth-century anti-immigrant mobilization fundamentally reshaped American conceptions of race, ethnicity, and national belonging. This book talk demonstrates how immigrant inclusion has historically been contingent upon the exclusion and regulation of other groups, revealing selective immigration control as a central mechanism of American nation-building.

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Out of Sight, At Sea: Migrant Labor and the Hidden Worlds of Global Seafood

This lecture by Beatrice Zani (French National Centre for Scientific Research) draws upon more than four years of multi-sited ethnographic research in Taiwan, Indonesia, and Singapore and explores the lives of Southeast Asian migrant fishers employed aboard distant-water fishing vessels. Combining participant observation with more than 140 interviews with migrant workers, vessel owners, labor brokers, port authorities, NGOs, and trade...

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Fiction After Protest: Hong Kong, Memory and Translation in Everyday Movement

Book talk with Hong Kong writer Gigi Leung Lee-Chi.

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[Roundtable Discussion] Korean Studies and the Philippines

Ateneo de Manila University Faculty discuss Korean studies in the Philippines.

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Weaponized Uncertainty: Deepfakes, Democratic Resilience and the Scandinavian Test Case

The Deepfake Democracy Project is an interdisciplinary Vertically Integrated (VIP) Project founded at Malmö University's Sustainable Digitalisation Research Centre, investigating how AI-generated synthetic media including deepfakes and AI nudification threatens democratic resilience, with particular attention to European contexts.

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City Living: Reimagining Urban Ecologies

This public conversation will bring together French and American scholars, policymakers, and urban-design leaders to consider a question of particular importance for Los Angeles and cities around the world: how can we design more sustainable, resilient, and livable urban environments.

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Info Session: Study Abroad in 2027 with American Councils

Join us to learn from American Councils representatives about study abroad programs and scholarships for 2026, open to undergraduate and graduate students.

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