UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies is announcing a call for applications for its Arabic Language Fellowship and Mosafer Centennial Fund Fellowship. Deadline: April 10, 2025.
Haiti's crisis stems from entrenched corruption, impunity and the unchecked flow of firearms, which have enabled gangs to seize control of vast portions of the country, said Haitian journalist Widlore Mérancourt.
Grants to the two programs by Alianza MX, a University of California program that promotes engagement with Mexico, will be used for student scholarships.
Winter quarter 2025 began with new and familiar faces in leadership roles, as well as news of faculty research awards.
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).
Professor Sixiang Wang in Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) won the 2024 UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies.
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.
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.”
