23rd Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

This Colloquium is an annual international conference for graduate students in the Humanities/Social Sciences to present research pertaining to all aspects of Armenian studies, including but not limited to language, literature, history, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, and art history.

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Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia, 1600–1800: Joseph Fletcher’s Plane Ride Revisited

Organized by Choon Hwee Koh (History, UCLA), Meng Zhang (History, UCLA), and Abhishek Kaicker (History, UC Berkeley)

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Sites of Encounter: Teaching about Medieval Jerusalem

This is the first lecture in a three-lecture series discussing the history and relevance of cities of the premodern Middle East as sites of cross-cultural encounter.

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The Complex Interplay of Religion, Law and Politics in Israel

This event is part of the Center's series "Religion in Israeli Society."

Join us on March 9 for an in-person-only conversation at UCLA on key legal battles in Israel to protect and advance Israeli democracy and religious pluralism.

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Living within a Moroccan Oasis: Forty Years of Research on Sustainability Issues in Figuig

A hybrid lecture by Dr. Abdellatif Bencherifa, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Visiting Professor for the Winter 2026 Quarter.

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Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba

Book talk with Areej Sabbagh-Khoury. The event is hosted by the Political Sociology and the Global South working group of the UCLA Department of Sociology and is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA Consortium on Palestine Studies, and the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History.

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The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up: Translating Eco-Literature into Virtual Reality

A talk about VR film "The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters" by Wu Ming-Yi (Writer) and Singing Chen (Director).

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The Iran War

The second event in the Center's urgent series offering different perspectives on the 2026 Iran War.

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Streets of a Million Martyrs: Everyday Poetics and Politics in Urban Algeria

In her forthcoming book, Streets of a Million Martyrs: Poetics and Politics in Urban Algeria, Love follows residents of Oran, Algeria to shows how city dwellers sustain a revolutionary spirit despite grappling with an all-too-recent history of violence, crumbling infrastructure, and ongoing state efforts to silence their diverse stories.

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Book Talk: "Acculturation of Korean New Zealander Youth: Re-Ethnicization of the Newer Generation"

This book by Changzoo Song (University of Auckland) explores the acculturation, identity development, and cultural reconnection of newer-generation (1.5- and second-generation) Korean New Zealander youth who grew up in New Zealand after the 1990s. Based on in-depth interviews, it shows how many of them initially sought to assimilate into the dominant culture but later experienced a process of re-ethnicization, rediscovering...

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