Through this creative project contest, CKS aims to educate the UCLA community on ongoing issues pertaining to "comfort women" from Korea, Taiwan, China, the Philippines, and elsewhere, who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Pacific War.
Published: Friday, March 1, 2024
The Center for Korean Studies conferred its first awards for creative student projects related to “comfort women” in late May. The annual competition seeks to educate the UCLA community about the history and impact of the sexual slavery of women who were forced to work in Japanese Army brothels during World War II.
Published: Thursday, June 8, 2023
South Korean architect Minsuk Cho answers questions for UCLA Architecture & Urban Design in the lead-up to a lecture and Center for Korean Studies conference at UCLA.
Published: Tuesday, February 21, 2023
The gift will create a permanent endowment to support creative projects by UCLA students and faculty, together with an online archive, research and programming.
Published: Monday, September 12, 2022
The UCLA Asia Pacific Center offers Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for East Asian languages and area studies.
Published: Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies Robert Buswell reflected on his life and work ahead of a two-day conference in honor of his retirement from UCLA.
Published: Friday, June 24, 2022
Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies Robert Buswell and his wife Christina Buswell have made gift commitments to create both an endowed chair and a graduate research fellowship in Buddhist Studies at UCLA.
Published: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Director Gina Kim's VR Film "TEARLESS" has won the BEST IMMERSIVE WORK award at the Geneva International Film Festival.
Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Director Gina Kim's VR Film "TEARLESS" is the second piece of a three part series addressing the mistreatment of Korean comfort women by American soldiers.
Published: Friday, August 6, 2021
Christine Hong and Ann Garland Mahler examined past social justice movements that explicitly linked racism to capitalism, fascism and imperialism. These movements of the 20th century, they argued, offer a powerful transnational solidarity framework for racial justice movements today.
Published: Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Legal Fight Over Century-Old Korean Papers Found in L.A. EndsFor more than a decade, 15,000 to 16,000 pages of documents that chronicle the very early years of Korean immigration to California have been in limbo.
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Global Voices: Pleas for Korean peace 60 years after fighting endedThe Liems, the filmakers of the documentary films ,"Memory of Forgotten War" and "The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger," discussed their film and their hopes for the May 8-10 UCLA conference in an interview with The Times.
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수수께끼 매달려 10년간 연구5일 개막 게티 뮤지엄' 루벤스전'기획.
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Yayori Matsui Monday, February 5, 20014:00 PM - 6:00 PM314 Royce Hall
International and Area Studies Summer Institute for Educators Saturday, July 27, 20028:00 AM - 4:00 PMUCLA
Reading and Discussion Wednesday, October 9, 20021:30 PM - 5:00 PM306 Royce Hall
Faculty Candidate Presentation: Agony in perspective: Conversion & the Negotiation of Patriarchy Among South Korean Evangelical Women Friday, November 8, 200212:00 PM - 1:30 PM279 Haines Hall
Public Lecture: A Geographic Perspective on the Study of Korean Culture Friday, December 6, 20023:00 PM - 4:30 PM11377 Bunche Hall
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