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    Two summer study programs in Mexico receive UC funding

    Grants to the two programs by Alianza MX, a University of California program that promotes engagement with Mexico, will be used for student scholarships.

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    International Institute leadership & faculty news

    Winter quarter 2025 began with new and familiar faces in leadership roles, as well as news of faculty research awards.

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Migrant remittances: A force for democracy

Political scientist Joseph Wright urged policymakers to consider the political impact of migrant remittances, which support democratization in authoritarian states.

Center for Study of International Migration

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Celebrating 25 Years of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Director, Stephen Acabado, reflects on the first 25 years of the center's history as it prepares for a yearlong celebration.

Center for Southeast Asian Studies

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The 'Arabicate' World: Conference Summary

The fall 2024 conference explored the concept of an "Arabicate" world as a predicate to the "Persianate" world in Islamic civilization elucidated by historian Marshall Hodgson.

Center for Near Eastern Studies

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Teaching fellows from Sweden enjoy UCLA's flexibility and diversity

Two Swedish visiting professors enjoyed teaching courses of their own design at UCLA this fall.

UCLA International Institute

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Subsistence farming of enslaved Africans creates African foodways in the New World

Using first-person European accounts of plantations, drawings, paintings and oral histories, geographer Judith Carney showed that the subsistence plots cultivated by enslaved people on plantations successfully brought African staples to the Americas.

African Studies Center

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Winning the UC Berkeley Hong Yun Lee Book Award in Korean Studies

Professor Sixiang Wang in Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) won the 2024 UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies.

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Dec 3, 2024. Writing in a SAPIENS op-ed, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Director Stephen Acabado and co-authors argue for dispensing with the Eurocentric "three-age system" to categorize prehistory. Instead, he supports research that "emphasizes the ongoing presence of... Continue Reading
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Nov 22, 2024. Three decades of research by Jason Kong, distinguished professor of computer science and director of the UCLA-PKU Students & Scholars Program, led to the award. Presented annually by the Electronic System Design Alliance — part of the global semiconductor... Continue Reading

Upcoming Events

Book Talk: "You Must Take Part in Revolution"3Mar2025

Center for Chinese Studies

Book Talk: "You Must Take Part in Revolution"

Badiucao and Melissa Chan in Conversation with Michael Berry

Controlling the Narrative: The Struggle over Journalism in Israel3Mar2025

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies

Controlling the Narrative: The Struggle over Journalism in Israel

On March 3rd, journalist, radio broadcaster, and former Chairperson of the Journalists' Association in Israel, Nurit Cannetti, will discuss the...

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare4Mar2025

Burkle Center for International Relations

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Edward Fishman, Sr. Research Scholar, Center Global Energy Policy & Adj Professor, SIPA, Columbia University

Why Dilettantes Wrote Diet Books: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health in Nineteenth Century Japan5Mar2025

Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies

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Climate Change And Methane: A Project For Turkmenistan

DELEGATION 6 members Visit Date: 12/13/2024
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University Of Leicester President Visit

DELEGATION 5 members Visit Date: 10/30/2024
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President Of The University Of Sydney Visit

DELEGATION 2 members Visit Date: 10/11/2024
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FOREIGN INSTIUTION Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso, Chile UCLA COUNTERPART Latin American Institute
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FOREIGN INSTIUTION India School Of Technology Kharagpur UCLA COUNTERPART Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
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FOREIGN INSTIUTION Ecole Normale Superieure - Psl ("Ens-Psl") UCLA COUNTERPART European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Agreement Type: Student Exchange