Political scientist Joseph Wright urged policymakers to consider the political impact of migrant remittances, which support democratization in authoritarian states.
CSEAS Director, Stephen Acabado, reflects on the first 25 years of the center's history as it prepares for a yearlong celebration.
This project on Cantonese language and cultures was co-initiated by Dr. King-Kok Cheung (Professor Emeritus of the Department of English at UCLA) and Dr. Min Zhou (tenured Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at UCLA and Director of the Asia Pacific Center). The goal is to utilize teaching, cultural promotion and community cooperation to advance the inheritance and development of Cantonese.
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.
Two Swedish visiting professors enjoyed teaching courses of their own design at UCLA this fall.
IEW 2024 featured an impressive array of events that celebrated international education and exchange.
The UCLA travel study program in The Hague in July 2024 was a stellar experience for global studies student Maher Salha (UCLA 2025).
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.
Professor Sixiang Wang in Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) won the 2024 UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies.
The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA — The UCLA Promise Armenian Institute hosted its second annual Kerr Family Endowed Lecture, titled “‘The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and his network of resisters during the Armenian Genocide.”
Stephen Acabado, director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, wins book prize for new reader “Plural Entanglements: Philippine Studies."
UCLA leaders recently signed an MOU with Erasmus University Rotterdam for a student exchange program on diversity, equity and inclusion, and also met with U.S. Embassy staff in The Hague.
Five months of study in Japan has Heidi Tapia thinking of a future career working there.
This visit by a delegation from WMSU established connections between the university and many departments at UCLA to increase collaboration and cultural exchange.
