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Octavio Pescador, Latin American Institute coordinator, visiting assistant professor of Chicano studies and associate director of the UCLA Center for Community Learning, was interviewed Thursday on KMEX-Channel 34 about Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s recent visit to the U.S. and his policy talks with President Obama.
Posted: 4/3/2012
React and Respond: The Phenomenon of Kony 2012
A Guideline for teaching about issues raised by Kony 2012
Posted: 4/2/2012
NPR turns to Professor Anne McKnight for comment on the similarities between the wildly popular "The Hunger Games" and a lesser known Japanese novel "Battle Royale," which was released more than a decade ago.
Posted: 3/22/2012
Edmond Keller, UCLA professor of political science and director of UCLA's Globalization Research Center?Africa, was interviewed Wednesday on Seattle radio station KUOW-94.9 FM's “The Conversation” about Ugandan guerilla leader and indicted war criminal Joseph Kony and the “Kony 2012” Internet video aimed at building worldwide opposition to him.
Posted: 3/20/2012
A Financial Times review of Professor Michael Ross' new book ?"The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations." Ross is director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Posted: 3/19/2012
Professor Jungmann at UCLA pioneered introducing Korean art in an America university in 1999. On promoting Korean art overseas, the professor says ``politicization’’ is a problem.
Posted: 3/9/2012
In exhibits, exchanges and programs, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and other institutions are examining fresh topics and weaving the work into a global fabric.
Posted: 3/4/2012
An op-ed piece by Professor Daniel Treisman, a political scientist with the UCLA Center for Europe and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 2/2/2012
Professor Geoffrey Robinson, former director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, is quoted in a New York Times article about a new book exposing details of anti-Communist purges in Indonesia from 1965 to 1966. Robinson currently teaches classes at UCLA on the history of Southeast Asia.
Posted: 1/19/2012
Will this be the year that Israel uses military force to try to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions?
Posted: 1/13/2012
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA’s Doshi Professor of Pre-Modern Indian History and former director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, is quoted in an Indian Express column about India's constitution.
Posted: 12/20/2011
Russell Burgos, a UCLA lecturer in global studies, was interviewed Dec. 18 on KTLA-Channel 5 about the U.S. military pulling out of Iraq and quoted in a CNN/KTLA web article about the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.
Posted: 12/19/2011
Korean language and culture have become popular subjects of interest for post-graduate students.
Posted: 12/16/2011
Film Business Asia
Posted: 11/4/2011
Professor Kevin Terraciano was interviewed by Agencia EFE about his latest research project: translating the Codex Sierra.
Posted: 11/3/2011
A New York Times op-ed by C. Cindy Fan, professor of geography and Asian American studies, about the challenges facing China's health care system and its aging population.
Posted: 11/2/2011
From an industry perspective, Janet Yang, president of Manifest Films, and former president of production of Oliver Stone's Ixtlan Productions, said it's a whole shift of power toward China. The move is deeply rooted in China's increasing "capital earning and spending power."
Posted: 10/29/2011
The Daily Bruin
Posted: 10/21/2011
A bilingual parent tries to keep a native tongue alive at home, a problem faced by many immigrants.
Posted: 10/19/2011
Variety
Posted: 10/17/2011
With the takedown of Anwar al-Alwaki, one more leadership piece of al-Qaida has been smashed. But even more importantly, this demonstrates the effectiveness of the US's adaptation to strike directly and covertly at terrorists, anywhere in the world, says Wesley Clark, senior fellow, Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 10/2/2011
"Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by Jose Bedia," a comprehensive retrospective of work by the famed Cuban American artist is highlighted in a Los Angeles Times article. The exhibition is on display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA September 18, 2011 - January 8, 2012.
Posted: 9/28/2011
The modest funding for International Education and Foreign Language Studies is vital to maintaining and enhancing our critical workforce needs. The institutional capacity on university campuses across the nation that exists today has taken decades to build and would be impossible to easily recapture once these programs are slashed. These cuts threaten that capacity.
Posted: 7/18/2011
L.A. Downtown News reports that the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival (June 16-26), will showcase films representing 30 countries. This year's International Spotlight, co-sponsored by the Latin American Institute, focuses on films from Cuba. The program includes Latin American Institute host film Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba, a documentary about 14,000 Cuban children who in 1961 and ’62 were sent by their parents to the United States.
Posted: 6/10/2011
An article in Education Week about federal budget cuts for K?12 and college-level foreign-language instruction programs highlighted UCLA's National Heritage Language Resource Center programs, which give students a chance to learn or reconnect with their ancestral languages.
Posted: 6/3/2011