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    Migrant remittances: A force for democracy

    Political scientist Joseph Wright urged policymakers to consider the political impact of migrant remittances, which support democratization in authoritarian states.

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    Teaching fellows from Sweden enjoy UCLA's flexibility and diversity

    Two Swedish visiting professors enjoyed teaching courses of their own design at UCLA this fall.

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    From left: Visiting professors Merima Bruncevic and Ylva Svensson. (Photos provided by the professors.)
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Celebrating 25 Years of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Director, Stephen Acabado, reflects on the first 25 years of the center's history as it prepares for a yearlong celebration.

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The 'Arabicate' World: Conference Summary

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.

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Winning the UC Berkeley Hong Yun Lee Book Award in Korean Studies

Professor Sixiang Wang in Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) won the 2024 UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies.

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Subsistence farming of enslaved Africans creates African foodways in the New World

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.

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Global studies, human rights and study abroad

The UCLA travel study program in The Hague in July 2024 was a stellar experience for global studies student Maher Salha (UCLA 2025).

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UCLA expands educational collaboration with The Netherlands

UCLA leaders recently signed an MOU with Erasmus University Rotterdam for a student exchange program on diversity, equity and inclusion, and also met with U.S. Embassy staff in The Hague.

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Freedoms and flashpoints: Elections impact more than national politics in 2024

Democracy — and the planet — are at stake in elections and governance around the world this year. A recent panel discussion explored the impact of elections in India, Amazonia, Mexico and the European Union.

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Dec 3, 2024. Writing in a SAPIENS op-ed, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Director Stephen Acabado and co-authors argue for dispensing with the Eurocentric "three-age system" to categorize prehistory. Instead, he supports research that "emphasizes the ongoing presence of... Continue Reading
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Nov 22, 2024. Three decades of research by Jason Kong, distinguished professor of computer science and director of the UCLA-PKU Students & Scholars Program, led to the award. Presented annually by the Electronic System Design Alliance — part of the global semiconductor... Continue Reading
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Nov 4, 2024. Kal Raustiala, director of the Burkle Center for International Affairs and Promise Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law at UCLA, has received the Arthur Ross Silver Medal book award of the Council on Foreign Relations for his book,... Continue Reading

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Frontiers in Science: Innovations in AI and Data Science

The first Japan-US Science Forum in Southern California

Colonization by migration: Czech migration to the Americas, nationalist discourses and colonial fantasies in the 19th and 20th centuries24Feb2025

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Colonization by migration: Czech migration to the Americas, nationalist discourses and colonial fantasies in the 19th and 20th centuries

Markéta Křížová (Center for Ibero-American Studies, Charles University) discusses the cultural and symbolic connections between Central Europe and North and...

Why in the world should a historian of Japan write about “fascism”?24Feb2025

Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies

Why in the world should a historian of Japan write about “fascism”?

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Between Canon and Coincidence (BECACO)24Feb2025

Center for European and Russian Studies

Between Canon and Coincidence (BECACO)

The BECACO team, led by Martin Berger, discuss utilizing data-driven methodologies to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and archaeological collections...

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Climate Change And Methane: A Project For Turkmenistan

DELEGATION 6 members Visit Date: 12/13/2024
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University Of Leicester President Visit

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