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Jorge Marturano brings a broader perspective to Caribbean culture

Under the leadership of literary scholar Jorge Marturano, the Program on Caribbean Studies has explored the region through the web of relationships that connect Carbibbean nations with Central and South America, including their shared Afro Descendant culture.

Introducing Piphal Heng

Piphal Heng is the 2022–2024 postdoctoral scholar at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia. He also holds a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for his postdoctoral research at UCLA.

Ahona Panda receives the 2020 Sardar Patel Dissertation Award

CISA is delighted to announce Ahona Panda as the winner of the 2020 Sardar Patel Dissertation Award for a dissertation entitled ‘Philology and the Politics of Language: The Case of Bengali, 1893-1955', completed at the University of Chicago in August 2019.

Sahana Ghosh receives the 2019 Sardar Patel Dissertation Award

CISA is delighted to announce Sahana Ghosh as the winner of the 2019 Sardar Patel Dissertation Award for a dissertation entitled ‘Borderland orders: Gendered economies of mobility and security across the India-Bangladesh border', completed at Yale University in May 2018.

Gift to Center for Korean Studies will fund creative arts projects on ‘comfort women'

The gift will create a permanent endowment to support creative projects by UCLA students and faculty, together with an online archive, research and programming.

UCLA Labor Center and Mexican university team up to advance worker rights

Director of the Center for Mexican Studies Gaspar Rivera-Salgado helped create the recently launched the Centro Laboral UAQ at the Autonomous University of Queretaro in central Mexico, the result of several years of collaborative work led by the UCLA Labor Center.

Everyday speculation and resistance among peri-urban spaces in Jakarta

UCLA Professors Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard present their field study of how residents in Jakarta, Indonesia navigate displacement, dispossession and the rebuilding of their lives.

UCLA International Institute receives $8 million in federal funding

Six centers of the institute have been awarded Title VI funding for area and/or language studies at UCLA.

East Asia Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships, Academic Year 2022-2023

The UCLA Asia Pacific Center offers Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for East Asian languages and area studies.

Teaching development and critical thinking

Faculty who regularly teach required courses in the international development studies major speak about their courses and how they work collaboratively to build student knowledge of the subject matter.

UCLA hosts Tigrinya Language Digital Initiatives Symposium

The four-day meeting brought together digital and computational experts from around the globe, drawing an average daily attendance of over 400 people.

International Institute sends students around the world in summer 2022

The International Institute, its academic programs and its research centers play an instrumental role in supporting international education and research at UCLA. This summer, they provided financial support that helped over 100 students travel abroad to study or conduct research.

Reframing international development studies

International development studies (IDS) faculty have been integrating critical development theory and critical numeracy into a curriculum that surveys the history, theories and experience of economic development in countries worldwide.

$1.2 million from Kachigian family trust establishes UCLA lectureship in Armenian studies

Armenian language scholar Hagop Kouloujian has been appointed to the position for a five-year term

Dragon Stones: Unique monuments of the Armenian Highlands presented at UCLA

Interview with Arsen Bobokhyan, Ph.D. (Director, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia), following "The Vishap: From Fairy Tale to Reality" event held at UCLA. Interview in Armenian

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Ceausescu's abortion ban offers lessons for U.S.

Sep 15, 2022. Writing in the Washington Post about 30 years of anti-abortion policies in communist Romania, former Director of the Center for European & Russian Studies Gail Kligman (sociology) notes, "When women cannot control their fertility, their physical and emotional well-being suffers, often with fatal consequences. Surveilling women's reproductive lives contributes to the creation of a culture of fear that erodes not only social relationships and sexual intimacy, but also the broader society itself.
"By 1989, Ceausescu's brutal antiabortion policies had tragically elevated Romania's maternal mortality rate to the highest in Europe: 87 percent of maternal deaths were attributed to complications from illegal abortion."

Mexican labor unions shocked out of lethargy

Aug 8, 2022. La Jornada interviewed UCLA Center for Mexican Studies Director Gaspar Rivera-Salgado about labor reform in Mexico and the work of the UCLA Labor Center there:
“Mexico City. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado looks from Los Angeles at the 'incredible context of change' in Mexico, particularly in the world of work, as a result of a labor reform that has shaken a sector that lived in lethargy for 70 years: ‘All the unions are as if they had suddenly been given electric shocks. Now they must have their batteries in place, because the entire legal, economic, but also political, framework is being redone.'" (In Spanish)

Focusing on local responses to ecological change

Aug. 3, 2022. Stephen Acabdao, director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, attended a workshop at the PSU Caramoan campus in the Phillipines sponsored by the Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia (PEMSEA). The program, he said to Inquirer.net, will “empower descendant communities that can provide compelling narratives for SEA cultural identities and highlight indigenous histories, which are typically absent from national historical narratives.”

Filipino history, demystified

Jul 7, 2022. Speaking to CNN about an exhibit on the true history of the Ifugao rice terraces in the Philippines, Director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies Stephen Acabado observed, “Exhibits like this provide a venue to highlight the experiences of marginalized Indigenous peoples. In the Philippine case, we hope that it spurs proactive policies that empower IP groups to learn more about their history and heritage. Studies have shown that youths who are more secure about their ethnic identity are more likely to succeed later in life. It's the least that we can do to redress centuries of oppression.”

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