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At the Intersection of Language and Culture: 4th Armenian Language Workshop at UCLA

Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of the birth of the eminent linguist and polymath Hrač‘eay Ačaṙian (1876-1953) Organizers: Peter Cowe (UCLA) Hrach Martirosyan (Leiden University)

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The Textual Construction of Genealogies in the Ming Dynasty

This online lecture series brings together leading scholars from North America and China to explore Ming dynasty book and manuscript culture. Presentations will be followed by Q and A with the speakers. Weekly sessions on Mondays at 4 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

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Feminist Armenian Research Collective Workshop: New Directions in Music, Arts, and Performance Studies

Feminist Armenian Research Collective’s (FemARC) Third Workshop, organized by Melissa Bilal, Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture at UCLA and Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Professor of History at MIT.

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Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia

Lunch will be served

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Book Talk: El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory (Dutton, 2026)

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A Comparative Study of Participatory Budgeting in South Korea and the United States

Dongwan Lim, Professor, Department of Public Policy, Dankook University

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Souls in the Kalyug

"Souls in the Kalyug" introduces readers to migrant workers who are confronting myriad hardships and asks how it is that these workers create lives that can become less injurious than their circumstances might suggest.

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Susan Slyomovics: After 40 Years of Teaching

This conference, organized on the occasion of Professor Susan Slyomovics' retirement, honors her meaningful contributions to the anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa.

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Tongues of Taiwan: Culture and Identity between Languages and Empires

This year's conference brings together scholars from diverse disciplines—linguistics, literature, history, media studies, and more—to reflect on the past, present, and future of the tongues of Taiwan. We invite discussions and debate around how linguistic practice has shaped cultural identity and vice versa in Taiwan, as well as explorations of the nuanced negotiations between different languages and cultural traditions undertaken...

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Microhistories of Armenian Early Modernity A UCLA Workshop on Diaspora, Print Culture, Confession Building, and Governmentality, c. 1512/1604-1789

Two-day workshop organized by the UCLA Richard Hovannisian Chair of Modern Armenian History and co-sponsored by the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History, UCLA Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, and UCLA Promise...

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