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Facing Down the Russian Threat: A View from Estonia

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

A diplomatic discussion with Kristjan Prikk, Estonia's Ambassador to the US.

Remembering Professor J. Arch Getty

Monday, June 9, 2025

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For Hannah Arendt, solidarity was neither universal nor an effective political force

Friday, July 25, 2025

After becoming a U.S. citizen, “[Hannah] Arendt idealized the U.S. as a consent-based revival of Rome. She missed the rethinking of the civil rights moment in the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s, as well as anticolonial thought after the Second World War,” said David Kim.

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Repression is working, says Russian journalist

Monday, March 18, 2024

Investigative journalist Roman Badanin says many criminal and administrative charges have either been newly introduced, or more aggressively pursued, in the last six years to suppress dissent in Russia.

Putin's ‘fear dictatorship': Political scientist Daniel Treisman on the state of Russia's autocracy

Friday, July 28, 2023

Meduza special correspondent Margarita Liutova spoke to Professor Treisman to learn more about how Putin's regime has changed in recent years — and what the future might have in store for Russia.

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The Croatian Diaspora of Los Angeles and Its Archival Documentation

Friday, July 14, 2023

Tamara Štefanac, Senior Archivist at the National and University Library in Zagreb, shares her research work on the Croatian diaspora of Los Angeles and about her experience as a Fulbright visiting scholar at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.

Opinion: How the U.S. is repeating Europe's failed migration policies

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Opinion by UCLA visiting scholar Ahlam Chemlali published in Los Angeles Times on June 4, 2023

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Surprised UCLA donor receives royal honor at annual Dutch Studies Lecture

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

In recognition of his service to the Dutch community in the U.S., Johannes van Tilburg was made a knight of a chivalric order of the Kingdom of The Netherlands on February 23.

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Ukraine and Bosnia: Wars to eradicate people, their culture and memory

Friday, January 6, 2023

“It's clear that Russia invests so much to destroy Ukrainian cultural identity because… Ukrainians can resist only when they can feel themselves a separate nation. Over 500 objects [have been] destroyed or damaged [over] the last nine months all over Ukraine," said Ihor Poshyvailo, director of the Maidan Museum in Kyiv.

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War crimes in Ukraine: International prosecutions remain uncertain

Friday, October 21, 2022

A recent panel discussion considered current investigations of Russian war crimes in Urkaine, including those of the International Criminal Court and the Ukrainian government.

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