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From Kwame Nkrumah's “Neocolonialism” to study abroad in Ghana
Hayley Farrell, an international development studies major, has spent her senior year studying at the University of Ghana while interning at a non-profit in Accra.
Congressman Ted Lieu to deliver 2022 International Institute commencement address
A frequent visitor to UCLA (which is located in his district), U.S. Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) is a seasoned politician who served in municipal and state government in California before being elected to Congress.
Daniel Treisman named 2022 Carnegie Fellow
Daniel Treisman, professor of political science at UCLA, joins 27 other fellows across the nation and will use his $200,000 stipend to support his project, “Diagnosing Democratic Frailty: What the History of Free Government Reveals About Today's Vulnerabilities.”
“Gaming” the major
In her four years at UCLA, global studies senior Isabel Wong parlayed her interests in globalization, gaming and business into three valuable internships that helped her identify a future marketing career in the interactive entertainment industry.
Bruins respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Public events on the war and fundraising to support Ukrainian students and scholars are among the campus efforts detailed by the UCLA Chancellor's recent campus update.
Nearly $800,000 raised at the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies' 10-Year Anniversary Celebration
At the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies' 10-Year Anniversary Celebration on April 11, the center raised nearly $800,000, which will be matched by the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation.
Then & Now: What Can International Law Do?
A Conversation about the International Legal Order and Russia-Ukraine with Anna Spain Bradley
Bruins Respond to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Public events on the war and fundraising to support Ukrainian students and scholars are among the campus efforts detailed by the UCLA Chancellor's recent campus update.
Robert and Christina Buswell to establish first permanent endowed chair in Korean Buddhist studies outside of Korea
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.
ArcDR3 Regenerates Urbanism Living with Disaster
Eleven universities worldwide, led by xLAB at UCLA and the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University, presented a symposium and exhibition on disaster-responsive architecture in Japan in April. The exhibition travels to LA in October 2022.
Senior combines love of science and development studies in her IDS major
International Institute student Stephanie Perez graduates this June with an IDS major and double minors in global health and global studies.Her education has led her to choose a future in public health.
Exhibition revisits forced removal of Japanese Americans during WWII
‘BeHere / 1942,' presented by the Yanai Initiative of UCLA and Tokyo's Waseda University, runs from May 7 to Oct. 9 at the Japanese American National Museum.
In Memoriam: Samuel Aroni (1927–2022)
Aroni spent roughly two decades forging collaborative research projects, faculty and student exchange programs and research conferences with universites abroad.
Min Zhou elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Zhou is prized as a professor who weaves her own experiences as an immigrant and mother of an Asian American child into her teaching. Her peers in sociology and migration studies recognize her as an accomplished scholar.
Passion drives his teaching, says David Kim
Kim, one of several winners of the 2020 UCLA Faculty Senate distinguished teaching award, is currently the interim director of international education at the International Institute.
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Gaspar Rivera-Salgado on racial discrimination among Mexicans
May 9, 2022. Speaking to La Opinión about racial and linguisitic discrimination among Mexicans, Center for Mexican Studies Director Gaspar Rivera-Salgado commented, “El tema del color de la piel o colorismo, tiene que ver con el tono de la piel y las posibilidades económicas, sociales y educativas.
“Tiene mucho que ver con nuestro pasado colonial y la conquista de México, cuando los españoles implementaron la jerarquía o supremacía racial que llamaron la pureza de sangre, donde impusieron el sistema de castas y cada grupo minoritario no blanco — incluidos criollos, mestizos y castizos — estaba por debajo de la pirámide racial”.
Is Ukraine Europe's Palestine?
Mar 23, 2022. Writing in the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Director Dov Waxman counters the argument that "the United States and its European allies are guilty of a double standard in how they've responded to the war in Ukraine and the Israeli occupation...
While there are some superficial similarities, there are significant differences between the war in Ukraine and the occupation of Palestinian territories."
Close working relationship with China remains a U.S. priority
Feb. 21, 2022. "The U.S.-China relationship 50 years ago was largely about geopolitical issues of security and shared antipathy toward the Soviet Union. Today, the U.S. and China are in a much more complex relationship, marked by aspects of competition and rivalry but also cooperation and interdependence," said UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in an interview tih the China News Service. "[It's] important to actively seek out areas where the two nations, working together, can combine forces to better manage existing problems."