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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.

Recent Conference Explores Political Discourse within the Contemporary Middle East

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

UCLA Humanitarian Aid to Artsakh and Armenia

An interdisciplinary team of professionals from UCLA has come together to provide humanitarian aid and assistance to Artsakh and Armenia.

Apply to the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship program

Academic-year and summer fellowships to support undergraduate and graduate students with training in modern foreign languages and related area or international studies.

International Bruin Spotlight: Ashraf Beshay

Ashraf Beshay (UCLA B.S. 2018) reflects on his experience as an international Bruin and his advocacy on the part of the international student community at UCLA and throughout the UC system.

A Critical Approach to Understanding Hmong Refugee Realities

Professor Ma Vang, founding chair of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced, presents ways to reframe and interrogate Hmong identities and traumas of war.

International Bruin Spotlight: Yuzhou Wang

Yuzhou Wang (UCLA M.A. 2020), a student in the East Asian Studies M.A Program, reflects on her experience at UCLA.

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What will Biden's policy toward Israel-Palestine be?

Nov. 19, 2020, The Washington Post. "Given the Trump administration's departure from decades of U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict... [m]ajor changes in the United States and in Israel-Palestine preclude a return to 'business as usual,'" writes Dov Waxman, director of the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, with co-author Jeremy Pressman. Facts on the ground limit President-Elect Biden's room for maneuver, including the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the "prevailing one-state reality in Israel-Palestine."

Colonialism and Catholicism in Vietnam

Sep. 23, 2020. UCLA historian George Dutton, director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, in an interview with the online mangonsteensmartlets, notes, "I think there was always at least an implicit sense of the Catholic missions as a kind of colonizing project.... The missionary efforts to convert and baptise Vietnamese went hand in hand with a range of cultural changes. This isn't to say that missionaries steamrollered local cultural practices and customs, but they did engage in various forms of iconoclasm and suppression of culture in the name of their faith. " Read the full interview at the link.

Joe Biden on the wrong track regarding Turkey

Sep. 22, 2020. "The ideas of the Democratic Presidential nominee will not restore U.S.-Turkish relations. Instead, Biden will exacerbate distrust between two NATO allies, facilitate an increasing tendency toward authoritarianism in Turkey, and push Turkey toward other patrons. It will also damage relations with our other allies in the Middle East," writes Eric Bordenkircher in The National Interest. Bordenkircher is a Research Fellow at the Center for Middle East Development.

Fear of authoritarian regimes pushes Hollywood to self-censor

Aug. 4, 2020. Writing in Foreign Affairs ("Hollywood is Running Out of Villains"), UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala observes, "Hollywood sanitizes or censors topics that Beijing doesn't like. But the phenomenon is not limited to China, nor is it all about revenue. Studios, writers and producers increasingly fear they will be hacked or harmed if they portray any foreign autocrats in a negative light, be it Russian President Vladimir Putin or North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un."

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