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    Global health minor continues to flourish

    The popular global health minor of the UCLA International Institute brings together Bruins who major in the social sciences and humanities with life sciences and pre-med majors.

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    “It's important to teach how medicine and health sit within a power structure. They are not outside of it. I think people don't make those connections naturally or easily.” — Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos
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    UCLA International Institute begins academic year with new and familiar faces

    New faculty and experienced hands have taken leadership positions at the institute this year, during which several faculty will be on leave.

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New works by International Institute scholars span a range of disciplines

New books by Stephanie Balkwill, Marjorie Elaine, Shaina Potts and David Kim arrive this fall.

UCLA International Institute

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Utpal Sandesara brings new expertise, courses to global health program

In his first year of teaching for the International Institute's global health minor, Sandesara created two new electives for the program.

UCLA International Institute

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UCLA Fulbright awardees will soon depart for global destinations

Five recent graduates and one faculty member will conduct research and promote cultural exchanges in locations such as Cambodia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Vietnam.

UCLA International Institute

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International Institute fellowship fills crucial gap in dissertation research funding

The UCLA International Institute recently awarded 25 fellowships to defray the travel costs associated with dissertation fieldwork. Fellowship recipients — all UCLA doctoral candidates — will travel to 25 countries on four continents to conduct research this summer and, in a few cases, this fall.

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Lifelong anticolonial activist makes significant estate bequest to CNES

The Elaine and Mokhtar Mokhtefi Endowment at CNES will support fellowships and scholarships for students from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) who study the history and cultures of the region at UCLA.

Center for Near Eastern Studies

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Creating the global university: How Gene Block built bridges from Westwood to the world

A tireless traveler, UCLA's outgoing chancellor has taken an in-person, hands-on approach to positioning the university as a major player on the international stage.

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The Promise of Cameroon

Two recently appointed co-directors of the UCLA Congo Basin Institute aim to map the rain forest system of the Congo River in partnership with African scientists, in keeping with the institute's long tradition of cultivating ongoing professional relationships with African researchers and their students.

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Sep 23, 2024. Writing in Scientific American with co-author Deisy Del Real (USC), Cecilia Menjívar (UCLA sociology and Center for Study of International Migration) details how "a new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, globally undermining democracies... Read More
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Jun 26, 2024. Steve Zipperstein, a global studies lecturer at the International Institute, was awarded a 2024 Hertie School of Governance Teaching Award after teaching his first course at the private graduate school in Berlin this spring. Zipperstein also teaches regularly... Read More
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Jun18, 2024. The Foundation of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association has awarded UCLA professor Tejas Parasher (political science & International Institute) the 2024 Best First Book Award for his monograph, “Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought”... Read More

Upcoming Events

The South of the island : Sinophone Malaysian Literature and Its Surroundings [in Mandarin]14Oct2024

Center for Chinese Studies

At the Edge of Empire: A Family15Oct2024

Burkle Center for International Relations

At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China

Edward Wong, diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times

Book Talk: Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists 15Oct2024

Center for European and Russian Studies

Book Talk: Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

A book talk with Professor Lisa Kirschenbaum and discussant Professor Vadim Shneyder on the epic journey of the two Soviet...

Life After Kafka: A Novel by Magdaléna Platzová16Oct2024

Center for European and Russian Studies

Life After Kafka: A Novel by Magdaléna Platzová

On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Franz Kafka's death, join us for a literary reading of the latest...

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Supporting Integration And Human Rights Of Displaced Persons: A Project For Armenia

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