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UCLA named #1 public university for fifith year in a row

U.S. News & World Report's annual “Best Colleges” for 2022 again named UCLA the nation's top public university.

UCLA faculty lead initiative to support Afghan scholars in danger

In an effort to bring Afghan scholars to UCLA, the Center for Near Eastern Studies is working to raise funds to support several visiting Afghan scholar positions on campus.

Dr. Shant Shekherdimian Appointed Inaugural Associate Director for Healthcare Outreach for The Promise Armenian Institute

Dr. Shekherdimian is an associate professor of pediatric surgery at UCLA DGSOM. For many years he has been actively involved in various initiatives in Armenia's healthcare sector.

International Institute names Marjorie Faulstich Orellana associate vice provost

Orellana, a professor in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies (Ed&Is) and associate director of the Center for the Study of International Migration, will assume her new position on January 1, 2022.

Professor Alina Dorian appointed vice chair of the Los Angeles County Public Health Commission

Professor Dorian has over three decades of public health practice experience, two decades of which have been at UCLA, during which she's held multiple leadership positions.

Tracing global convergence and interconnection from Malacca & Ottoman Empire

The 2021 Sites of Encounter K-12 teacher workshop showcased these two major trade centers as prominent drivers of global integration and cultural diffusion.

The decolonization of African thought and African studies

In a masterful lecture, Ndlovu-Gatsheni, professor and chair of epistemologies of the global south at Bayreuth University (Germany), laid out the intellectual history of decolonization in Africa and African studies and the many “turns” within it.

POV Shorts Sets Broadcast & Streaming Debut of 4th Season on PBS on 11/22

The documentary Águilas, produced by LAI affiliates Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Maite Zubiaurre, will be broadcast on PBS on November 22nd, 2021.

Engaging with environmental research in early modern Southeast Asia

A webinar series invites scholars to share collaborative approaches to studying ecological change in the region and how community-engaged research can reshape disciplinary boundaries.

CNES receives gift to create global Iranian diaspora program

The program will draw on UCLA's extensive multidisciplinary expertise on Iran, the Middle East and migration studies to promote scholarship on the Iranian diaspora comparable in scope to current scholarship on the global Chinese and South Asian diasporas.

Gina Kim's VR Film "TEARLESS" invited to the 78th Venice Film Festival

Director Gina Kim's VR Film "TEARLESS" is the second piece of a three part series addressing the mistreatment of Korean comfort women by American soldiers.

La Convención Constituyente y el futuro de Chile

Un reporte exclusivo por Natalia Bieletto-Bueno; Centro de Investigación en Artes y Humanidades, Universidad Mayor, Chile

The Constitutional Convention and the Future of Chile

An exclusive report by Natalia Bieletto-Bueno; Centro de Investigación en Artes y Humanidades, Universidad Mayor, Chile

Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies launches Irene Hirano Inouye Award

The award will honor the life and work of the Japanese American businesswoman, who was the founding chair of the Terasaki Center board of advisors.

Nazarian Center receives $1 million challenge grant to expand teaching in Israel studies

The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation has generously given the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies a $1 million matching challenge grant to support the expansion of teaching about modern Israel at UCLA. Money raised from this challenge will go to a total goal of $2 million in endowment funds designated for teaching in Israel studies.

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Ali Behdad interviewed about Afghan Scholars at Risk

Sep. 9, 2021. “[Afghan scholars] are facing tremendous repression and possibly expulsion from universities,” said Center for Near Easern Studies Director Ali Behdad to Los Angeles-based NPR affiliate KCRW. “I think that scholarship and scientific inquiry are, by definition, secular practices.” Behdad is leading the effort to help fund visiting scholar positions for Afghans at UCLA.

James Gelvin discusses ongoing crisis in Afghanistan

Aug. 27, 2021. In an interview with KTLA (Los Angeles), UCLA historian James Gelvin discusses the U.S. withdrawal and the major players on the ground in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, ISIS Khorosan, al-Qaeda and local militias.

The likely impacts of resettling Afghan refugees

Aug. 26, 2021. Writing in the Washington Post, Margaret Peters (chair, Global Studies Program, UCLA International Institute) and David Leblang (UVA) contend, "In the long run, resettling Afghan refugees could help not only their new host countries but also the people who remain in Afghanistan." Migrants are likely to increase trade with and investment in Afghanistan, send money home and, eventually, transfer grassroots organizing skills and democratic expectations to people who remain in the country.

U.S. withdrawl from Afghanistan

Aug. 16, 2021. Ben Radd, research fellow at the Center for Middle East Development and lecturer in political science at UCLA, is interviewed about the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on Spectrum News.

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