“Violence is a warning sign of a democracy that may slide into dictatorship, as well as the toleration of violence by its citizenry,” said the professor emeritus at UCLA's 11th Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership.
A UCLA delegation that included Chancellor Julio Frenk recently attended the 50th anniversary celebration of the UCLA Japanese Alumni Association in Tokyo, where they also met with a broad range of officials and academic and nonprofit leaders.
"The Running Flame" is the third work by Fang Fang that Berry has translated into English.
The new director of the Center for the Study of International Migration seeks to add new dimensions to center programming. She hopes to highlight such issues as the impact of increasingly aggressive immigration detention and deportation policies on local communities, including Los Angeles, as well as UCLA students' visceral experience of and research on these policies.
Friday, April 24, marks the annual commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, the systematic murder of 1.5 million Armenians by the forces of the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923. A series of events, discussions and performances are planned over the coming days.
A founding partner of a women-managed global venture capital firm in Japan, Matsui is the third recipient of the award, which is bestowed biannually by the Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.
In March 2026, the University of California at Los Angeles and Université Internationale de Rabat jointly organized a two-day international conference, “Landscapes in Transition: Human-Environment Relations Across Mountainscapes,” held in Rabat, Morocco, marking another step forward in the growing collaboration between the two universities.
A panel discussion in honor of International Women's Day introduced the work of compelling global women leaders to the UCLA community, offering the latter opportunities for fruitful collaborative initiatives.
A new grant from the Henry Luce Foundation will strengthen a burgeoning network of Indigenous communities, nonprofit organizations and universities through Southeast and East Asia spearheaded by Stephen Acabado, director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
“ICE OUT: Arte en Resistencia!”, an exhibition organized by UCLA undergraduates, opens March 10 with a panel discussion, followed by live music. It features work by Los Angeles artists Mykle Parker, Josiah O'Balles and Ernesto Yerena.
Ann Karagozian, inaugural director of The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, wears many hats at UCLA and has built an extensive record of work in both STEM and the social sciences.
How UCLA advocates are working with global partners to end the practice.
On February 9, 2026, the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive celebrated the legacy of Hua Wenyi with a roundtable discussion and performances by the Kunqu Opera Society USA and UCLA Kunqu students from the UCLA Music of China Ensemble, directed by Chi Li. This celebration event was co-sponsored by the UCLA Asia Pacific Center.
Linda Zerilli proposed a democratic theory of truth that requires citizens to engage in the public space to continually affirm factual truth. “Whatever is true is expressed by us arising from everyday life with language,” she said.
When the end of monsoon season first left unaccompanied Chinese merchants in Southeast Asian ports for months at a time, they formed local diaspora communities in a process that has spanned at least 18 centuries.
