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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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Picture Start Verticals Panels & Showcase

Vertical Industry Panel

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Field of Amazigh Studies: Renewal and Future Horizons

The Amazigh Studies Initiative (AMASI) is a multiyear program that aims to contribute to the renewal and consolidation the field of Amazigh Studies, which has been overlooked over the past three decades despite the continued vibrancy and significant scholarly and cultural output of the Imazighen, the Indigenous people of Tamazgha (broader North Africa). Join us as we celebrate the AMASI’s...

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The Transformation and Transregional Spread of the Ming Buddhist Tripiṭaka

Training the Trainers: Materiality of Ming Books and Manuscripts. 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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Retaining Jews after Morocco's Independence: Secularism as the Path Untaken

In this Averroes lecture, Brahim El Guabli will examine a relationship between secularism and Moroccan Jewry in post-colonial Morocco.

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The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War

A talk by journalist James Verini on the single worst act of mass civilian killing of the war.

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Equality and Exclusion: Israel’s Constitutional Order and Its Palestinian-Arab Minority (1948–2025)

This program is part of the Center's series Key Legal Issues in Israel.

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[Book Talk] Borderland Dreams: Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers

Prof. June Hee Kwon, California State University, Sacramento

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