Bordering on Indifference

In this talk, Irene Vega will present her book Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality; comments will be provided by Hiroshi Motomura.

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Rear Entrance

Guest programmer Janet Louie, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, will give a brief talk about the history of the Sing Lee Theatre before the screening. Q&A with Louie, Head of Collection Services Staci Hogsett and Circulation Coordinator Diana Cardenas.

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Water Knows No Borders

This event is part of the Center's series "Scientific and Environmental Diplomacy." Join us on February 3 for a webinar with Professor Eilon Adar, who will be discussing the significance of integrated water management between nations in the Middle East, and how this reality can either be a trigger for conflict or a catalyst for cooperation.

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Brief Rise and Fall of Late Ottoman Islamists and Their Legacy

A virtual lecture with Andrew Hammond (Australian National University).

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Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships

Learning from Latin American Outreach Series

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Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule

Join us for the UCLA European History Colloquium.

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Incoming: Words and Movement from the Periphery in Arabic Travel Writing

In this lecture, Björn Bentlage will present a comparative and contrastive reading of Ottoman era travel narratives with a near contemporary view from the periphery represented through ʿAlā’ Khālid’s 2024 memoir Karnifāl al-Qāhira (‘Cairene Carnival’).

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Questioning Racial Binaries: Co-Ethnic Racialisation, Intersectionality, and Immigration Hierarchies in East Asia

Drawing on migration trends in East Asia, including Singapore, China, Japan, and South Korea, this virtual lecture by Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho (National University of Singapore) advances contemporary scholarship on ethnicity, migration, and racialisation by examining new dynamics of racism that complicate the conventional white/Other binary often referenced in Western migrant-receiving societies.

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Cybernetic Maoism and the Origins of the Chinese Internet

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu Associate Professor of History Washington University in St. Louis

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Israel Film Festival: Of Dogs and Men

Join us on February 8th for the Center’s sponsored screening at the 37th Israel Film Festival of this moving and quietly affecting docudrama, shot on location in Kibbutz Nir Oz just weeks after the October 7 attacks.

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