• Center for Southeast Asian Studies

    Bringing migrant and refugee stories and connections to light

    UCLA Newsroom / Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi's relational approach to Asian American studies and refugee memory creates a powerful ripple effect.

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  • Asia Pacific Center

    UCLA Asia Pacific Center designated a National Resource Center

    The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the UCLA Asia Pacific Center, or APC, an East Asia National Resource Center grant that is expected to reach roughly $691,000 over a three-year period.

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Family love leads donor to create two endowed scholarships at UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies

Kyung Ki (Cindy) Min has created two endowed scholarships at the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies that provide valuable support to students of Buddhism.

Center for Buddhist Studies
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Bringing migrant and refugee stories and connections to light

UCLA Newsroom / Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi's relational approach to Asian American studies and refugee memory creates a powerful ripple effect.

Center for Southeast Asian Studies
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Military dictatorship in Brazil pushes political class to accept mass mobilization

At a book talk for "Until the Storm Passes" about the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964–1985, author Bryan Pitts said the malleability of the Brazilian political class has made it possible for Brazilian democracy to become more representative over the past several decades.

Latin American Institute
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Debate over identity sparks the emergence of a “passionate center” in Israeli politics

At the inaugural Younes Nazarian Memorial Lecture of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, writer Yossi Klein Halevi contended that mass demonstrations against the proposed judicial reforms of Prime Minister Netanyahu were reanimating the center in Israeli politics.

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
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LA City Council President Paul Krekorian to speak at 2023 International Institute commencement

Krekorian has had a long career that spans the practice of law, service as counsel to the Webster Commission following the 1992 Los Angeles uprising and four years as a California State Assemblyman.

UCLA International Institute
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Translation, disinformation and a Guggenheim Fellowship

Michael Berry has received a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in translation. The award follows a tumultuous, but very productive, last three years.

Center for Chinese Studies
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Sociologist Min Zhou elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The honor for the director of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center follows her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.

Asia Pacific Center
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Ambition and the sense of powerlessness among young Chinese

In a lecture at the Center for Chinese Studies, anthropologist Biao Xiang said the sense of powerlessness felt by young Chinese today is curiously similar to that felt by the young generation in China before the 1980s, when the reforms that transformed the country into an economic powerhouse were first introduced.

Center for Chinese Studies
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A family humanitarian legacy born in the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide

Documentary filmmaker Ani Hovannisian used a mix of photos, video clips and historic and family documents to recount the humanitarian work of Stanley and Elsa Kerr with Near East Relief in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, when they saved thousands of Armenian Genocide survivors.

The Promise Armenian Institute
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Report documents violence against Central American migrants at U.S.-Mexican border

Using quantitative and qualitative data, the report's analysis finds unprecedented violence against migrants in six northern Mexican border states and four southwestern U.S. border states during the period January 1, 2021–June 30, 2022.

Center for Mexican Studies
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Documentarian Explores Kerr Family's Legacy of Humanitarian Works in Promise Armenian Institute Program

On Wednesday, April 12, the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA introduced a newly endowed lecture series named in honor of the Kerr family.

The Promise Armenian Institute
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Annual Japanese Speech Contest at UCLA

Center for World Languages
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UCLA delegation visits Mexico

A UCLA delegation made a recent trip to Mexico City to meet with alumni and re-invigorate campus relationships with institutions with whom UCLA has ongoing collaborative relationships.

UCLA International Institute
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Superb global studies teachers honored by UCLA

Global studies teachers Hannah Appel and Arjun Krishna have both received a 2023 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. The duo teamed on two International Institute courses during the 2021–22 academic year, when Bruins returned to the classroom after a year and a half of remote learning.

UCLA International Institute
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Forced migration: Q&A with expert Roger Waldinger

The UCLA distinguished professor of sociology answers questions about the current state of global migration and international refugee policies.

Center for Study of International Migration
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Ann Phong: Re-Evaluating Normal

Vietnamese American artist Ann Phong speaks about her work.

Friday, June 2, 2023
11:00 AM

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At the Intersection of Language and Culture

The 2nd Annual Armenian Language Workshop at UCLA, organized by Peter Cowe (UCLA) and Hrach

Saturday, June 3, 2023
10:00 AM

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