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    International Education Week celebrates UCLA's global commitment

    From Nov. 17–21, units across campus will host events highlighting international education, exchange and research.

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    Nov 19, 2024. Dancers from the Nigerian Student Association perform at Bruins Around the World during International Education Week 2024. (Photo: Oliver Chien/ Darlen Sanzon, UCLA.)
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    New data upends myths about Mexican migrant labor

    Temporary Mexican labor migration to the U.S. is largely legal today due to the rapid expansion of H2-A and H2-B visas, reversing a longstanding trend of unauthorized migrant flows.

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Latin American Studies and TFT alumnae awarded prestigious MacArthur Fellowships

With graduates Gala Porras-Kim and Garrett Bradley being honored, Bruins have accounted for 1 in 10 ‘genius grant' recipients over the past three years.

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UCLA alumnus improves students' educational skills for a globalized world

Yondonjamts Jigjidsuren (UCLA 2022) spent the past three years as a student mentor and teacher, first in Boyle Heights, then in Cambodia as a Peace Corps volunteer. He worked with the local community in his Cambodian town to create a computer lab for students, leaving a lasting legacy.

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Support for study of South Asian religions

A $1.5 million pledge to UCLA from Jasvant and Meera Modi will support the establishment of the Bhagawan Abhinandan Endowed Chair for Jain Studies and Religions of South Asia.

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New leaders join the International Institute

UCLA faculty take on new roles in the leadership of the International Institute, its academic programs and its centers and programs.

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UCLA faculty depart International Institute after dedicated service

We thank a number of UCLA faculty who have made significant contributions to the International Institute.

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For Hannah Arendt, solidarity was neither universal nor an effective political force

After becoming a U.S. citizen, “[Hannah] Arendt idealized the U.S. as a consent-based revival of Rome. She missed the rethinking of the civil rights moment in the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s, as well as anticolonial thought after the Second World War,” said David Kim.

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Imperialism cloaked in the rule of law

UCLA geographer Shaina Potts places her analysis of the wide geographic application of U.S. commercial law after World War II within a specific framework of imperialism: one that cloaks the exertion of state power in economic and legal terms, effectively removing financial issues from the political sphere.

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Ippy Kalofonos: Supporting veterans with voices and visions

Jul 25, 2025. Ippolytos “Ippy” A. Kalofonos, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., chair of the Institute's global health minor and assistant professor in residence at the UCLA Semel Institute, launched a Veteran's Voices and Visions chapter at the Los Angeles VA. A Psychiatry Online article describes how the program, on which Kalofonos published a study, has benefited participants. Continue Reading
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Stephen Acabado on tequila distillation theories

July 21, 2025. UCLA anthropologist Stephen Acabado, director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, writes in The Conversation that the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route (1565-1815) "may help explain how distilled agave spirits such as tequila came into being. While tequila is unmistakably a Mexican creation, the techniques used to produce it may owe something to Filipino sailors…" Continue Reading
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LA labor unions and immigrants

July 1, 2025. Speaking to The New York Review of Books about labor organizing history in Los Angeles, Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies Gaspar Rivera-Salgado noted, "In Los Angeles, labor started organizing and seeing immigrants as the future in the late 1980s." Article author Piper French notes, "Then, in 1986, came Reagan's amnesty bill, which granted millions of immigrants legal status and made them potential new union... Continue Reading

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Ecos migrantes: Visibilizando la diversidad de las comunidades latinas en California13Nov2025

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Ecos migrantes: Visibilizando la diversidad de las comunidades latinas en California

En esta charla, el periodista Soudi Jiménez (Los Angeles Times) hablará sobre algunos de los temas abordados en su reciente...

German Research Foundation Funding Info Session13Nov2025

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German Research Foundation Funding Info Session

Undergrads and grad students are invited to learn about opportunities to study and work in Germany.

What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn13Nov2025

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What Song Gentlemen (Mostly) Didn't Write about Gentlemen, and Why

Robert Hymes, Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University

Classical and Popular Music in Israel: Transcultural Dialogues and Contrasts13Nov2025

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Classical and Popular Music in Israel: Transcultural Dialogues and Contrasts

Join us on November 13 for this in-person talk by renowned British musicologist and pianist Malcolm Miller, and a recital...

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Meeting With Delegates From Konkuk University

DELEGATION 3 members Visit Date: 10/22/2025
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Meeting With Delegates From Uclouvain

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American Music And The Economy: A Multi-Regional Project

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