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Elaine Mokhtefi, a lifelong activist in the anticolonial movement who worked for Algeria’s independence, has made a substantial bequest to the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES).

Read about the gift, which will support fellowships and scholarships for UCLA students from the Middle East and North Africa, and the fascinating life story of Ms. Mokhtefi: ucla.in/4de5i4a



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UCLA Health will provide physician coverage for the men’s and women’s basketball national teams at the next two Olympic Games and at International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Basketball World Cups and training camps.

UCLA Health named official team physicians of USA Basketball for Olympic Games The multiyear partnership is centered around UCLA Health providing first-class orthopaedic and sports medical care.

“To understand and nurture the values that lay at the foundation of our democracy, it is essential to mine the past as a guide to a better future,” Renee Luskin said. “Such knowledge can aid in solving some of our world’s biggest challenges.”

In addition to bolstering resources for students, faculty and the development of early-career scholars, the gift will support the expansion of the department’s many public-facing centers and programs.

Alumni couple gives $25 million to propel UCLA’s Department of History into the future The landmark gift from Meyer and Renee Luskin will support the department’s mission of leveraging historical knowledge for the public good.

The UCLA International Institute recently awarded 25 to defray the travel costs associated with .

Fellowship recipients — all UCLA doctoral candidates — will travel to 25 countries on four continents to conduct research this summer and, in a few cases, this fall. Read the article: ucla.in/3xTuAFt

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Photos from left: Ramses II Temple in Luxor. Mohammed Moussa, 2013, via WikiCommons; cropped. CC BY-SA 3.0 (goo.gl/BUqs). Pindus Mountains. Bogdan Giusca, 2006, via WikiCommons; cropped. CC-BY-SA-2.5 (goo.gl/JMXzDv).

Sustained high temperatures pose big risks for health illnesses. Be alert to the specific symptoms described in this article.

Know the signs of heat stroke and exhaustion As temperatures rise, so does the risk of serious illness. UCLA doctors tell you how to protect yourself and your loved ones.

In an interview with photojournalist and writer David Bacon, Julia Quiñones and Julieta Morales emphasize the need for new strategies, gender empowerment & international solidarity in factories. ucla.in/3RVy5SN

The extended interview is the first in a series of interviews with prominent Mexican labor leaders by Bacon, in collaboration with the Global Solidarity Program of UCLA Labor Center, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Center for Mexican Studies of UCLA Latin American Institute.

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At the annual UCLA Global Development Lab showcase this year, members gave detailed presentations on GDL internships and the international and/or community projects they developed over the past year.

Read about Bruin-developed projects that promote greater equity in services, education and rights, respectively: ucla.in/4cMnTDR



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"Creando Cuentos: Latin American Children's Literature Workshop" - 3 day workshop

⏳⏳⏳Our deadline to register has been extended to Thursday, June 20!

For more information and to register, visit: https://web.international.ucla.edu/LAI/events/16760

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“You listen, you learn and you go where people live to see the world from their perspective, which is the CBI mission,” says Elsa Ordway, new co-director of UCLA's Congo Basin Institute.

Ordway, together with fellow co-director Felipe Zapata, recently took over leadership of the institute from its founder, Professor Thomas Smith.

Read the full article on CBI and its future plans to map the rain forest system of the Congo River in the summer edition of UCLA Magazine below.

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The Promise of Cameroon UCLA’s Congo Basin Institute is out to definitively map the African rainforests, a mission that could revolutionize climate science — and just maybe save the planet.

Virtual K-12 Teacher Development Workshop
"Themes in World History: Environmental
Transformations & Their Impact"
July 1-2, 2024
Pre-registration required

Cosponsored by UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies UCLA Asia Pacific Center UCLA Latin American Institute UCLA History-Geography Project

Join us on Monday, July 1st, to Tuesday, July 2nd, for a K-12 Teacher Professional Development Workshop that will focus on environmental issues in China and Central America to align with themes of "Environmental Transformations" in world history curriculum under the CA History Social Science Framework. This PD workshop aims to provide area studies content and pedagogy training to K-12 teachers in California to help with the classroom instruction of these themes. The workshop will give educators an opportunity to hear lectures from scholars to gain more historical knowledge, work with model lessons developed by teacher leaders, and receive training for designing lessons to align with the HSS Framework.

Click here to register: https://forms.gle/1KcoZiGjEbxmeqZQ6

Watch the UCLA International Institute Commencement Ceremony, held Saturday, June 15, 2004. Congratulations to our newest alumni -- undergraduate and graduate students alike!

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Congratulations to of the UCLA Class of 2024!

UCLA Commencement Highlights 2024 Some 15,000 Bruins receive their degrees in the 2024 commencement season and launching into the next chapter in their lives, carrying with them the unique bl...

Double major (global studies & public affairs) and recent UCLA graduate Jonathan Valenzuela Mejia spent the fall of his junior year in an exchange program at Sciences Po in Paris. He overcame the challenges of adapting to a new culture through a "buddy" program there, and started a similar program at UCLA upon his return.

Reflecting on his experience in France in relation to that of his immigrant parents, the first-generation college student said, "I had a whole new lens of understanding the difficulties and the struggles of emigrating to a different country.”

Valenzuela Meijia received a 2024 Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity Award for humanities, arts and social science students for outstanding recorded presentations on his paper, "The Development of Central American Communities & Individual Immigrant Experiences in Western Europe." (His faculty advisor for the research paper, Patricia Arroyo Calderón, won a Faculty Mentor Award.)

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Studying abroad brought him closer to his parents’ migration story A full-circle moment in Europe gave Jonathan Valenzuela Mejia a fresh perspective on Central American studies. (available in Spanish)

The UCLA International Institute congratulates the winners of the 2024 International Development Studies Program Awards! Read their stories: ucla.in/45mwB9z

Alban Martinez, 2024 IDS Activist Award
Zibaa Adil, 2024 IDS Academic Award

and

Brennan McConnell-Griner, Honorable Mention, Activist Award
Melodie Ahn, Honorable Mention, Academic Award
Avanthika Panchapakesan, Honorable Mention, Academic Award



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“It's the job of my generation... to make the institutions [of international justice] work better and make our own contributions to this century-long process of trying to fight the worst instincts of humanity,” said graduating global studies senior Mischa Gureghian Hall.

Read his story: ucla.in/4bYtB5O



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UCLA's seventh chancellor will be Julio Frenk — current president of the University of Miami and a renowned public health leader whose career has spanned the United States and Mexico. He will take the helm of UCLA on Jan. 1, 2025. UCLA's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt will serve as interim chancellor from Aug. 1, 2024, until the end of the calendar year.

Learn more about this historic appointment on UCLA Newsroom: https://ucla.in/4aVbXi5

“I am so proud to be a part of this generation... to be a part of a student body and among people who fight for what they really believe in," says graduating IDS senior Avanthika Panchapakesan.

Read her story: ucla.in/4c8BLIE

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The perfect embodiment of today's multicultural scholar, International Institute Associate Vice Provost David Kim is "a great teacher, scholar, thinker and contributor to the community ― who shows unwavering dedication to his students and his field."

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Professor David Kim receives 2024 Gold Shield Faculty Prize The annual award honors a mid-career faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching, research and service.

UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
"Violence in the suburbs of France: a tragic cycle of déjà vus;
Visiting Professor of the CERS Dutch Studies Program, Luuk Slooter, discusses structural violence of a socially and spatially divided society in France."

Wednesday, June 5, 2024
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 6275
RSVP: ucla.in/3yVbT4j

About the Talk: On 27 June 2023 a 17-year-old boy, Nahel Merzouk, is shot dead by the police in Nanterre, a suburb north of Paris (France). The same night collective violence erupts: cars burn down, buildings are set on fire and there are heavy clashes between young people and the police. The unrest spreads across the French Republic and lasts for 8 days. The death of Nahel was not a one-off incident, but part of a longer history of suburban unrest in France’s marginalized suburbs. It was a déjà-vu. A tragic play that has been staged multiple times over the past four decades. Although the play has been performed in different forms, at different locations, and by different actors, it has remained loyal to a script in three acts. In this talk, Slooter will bring you to the disadvantaged suburbs (banlieues) of France and disaggregate this three act drama. Drawing on ethnographic research, Slooter will show how the cycle of car burning protests and police brutality is rooted in the structural violence of a socially and spatially divided society.

Sponsors: Luskin Center for History and Policy UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

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Violence in the suburbs of France: a tragic cycle of déjà vus.
Visiting Professor of the CERS Dutch Studies Program, Luuk Slooter, discusses structural violence of a socially and spatially divided society in France.

Wednesday, June 5, 2024
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 6275
RSVP: ucla.in/3yVbT4j

About the Talk: On 27 June 2023 a 17-year-old boy, Nahel Merzouk, is shot dead by the police in Nanterre, a suburb north of Paris (France). The same night collective violence erupts: cars burn down, buildings are set on fire and there are heavy clashes between young people and the police. The unrest spreads across the French Republic and lasts for 8 days. The death of Nahel was not a one-off incident, but part of a longer history of suburban unrest in France’s marginalized suburbs. It was a déjà-vu. A tragic play that has been staged multiple times over the past four decades. Although the play has been performed in different forms, at different locations, and by different actors, it has remained loyal to a script in three acts. In this talk, Slooter will bring you to the disadvantaged suburbs (banlieues) of France and disaggregate this three act drama. Drawing on ethnographic research, Slooter will show how the cycle of car burning protests and police brutality is rooted in the structural violence of a socially and spatially divided society.

Sponsors: Luskin Center for History and Policy, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA International Institute

May 16, 2024. Mariachi de Uclatlán, comprised of students from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, opened the "Fiesta de Mariachi" show at Waseda University in Japan.

The one-of-a-kind performance was part of a tour supported by the Alpert School and its Center for Latino Arts.

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Fiesta de Mariachi: Waseda University Embraces Mexican Culture Musical Director Jesús “Chuy” Guzmán On the evening of 16th May, 2024, at Waseda University's Ono Auditorium, the vibrant sounds of mariach...

UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
Book Talk -- “Knowing Silence: How Children
Talk about Immigration Status in School"

Fri, Jun 7, 2024
⏱12:00 PM PDT
📍UCLA Haines Hall, Rm 279
🎟Info & registration: ucla.in/3QNd5gn

Ariana Mangual Figueroa, former New York City public school teacher and associate professor at CUNY Graduate Center, speaks about how young people understand and negotiate their immigration status.

Based on findings from detailed observations and recordings of six Latina students from mixed-status families – as well as home and classroom discussions, writing assignments, police encounters, and college applications - her book demonstrates that children grapple with citizenship realities from an early age.

Sponsor(s): UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration UCLA School of Education & Information Studies SE&IS Language, Literacy, and Learning Collaborative

UCLA School of Education and Information Studies - Undergraduate Programs UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health L.A. Social Science UCLA International Institute Academic Programs UCLA First Generation Students Undocumented Student Program at UCLA

UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

Tomorrow, May 29
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Kaplan Hall Room 311
RSVP: ucla.in/3KkVjxi

TOMORROW: 1890s: The Belgian and Czech Decadent Novels between Gothicization and Colonialism, a paper discussion & guest lecture by Petra James!

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TOMORROW: 1890s: The Belgian and Czech Decadent Novels between Gothicization and Colonialism, a paper discussion & guest lecture by Petra James!

Tomorrow, May 29
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Kaplan Hall Room 311
RSVP: ucla.in/3KkVjxi

About the talk: The paper analyses two key decadent novels (Bruges la Morte (1892) by Georges Rodenbach and A Gothic Soul (1900) by Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic) as tools for Czech and Belgian national self-determination through the aesthetic process of Gothicization. The “Gothic” trope assumes a socio-political function as the emblem of cultural reappraisal for both Czechs and Belgians, whose national revival of the 19th century was based on a return to a medieval Gothic past, idealized as a period with a high national symbolic value, prefiguring foreign influences. Gothicization is interpreted not only as a process of nation-building but also as a means of obscuring the colonial nature of Belgium of the symbolist modern period and the Czech ambiguous relationship to the exotic Other, often depicted in dehumanizing and misogynist ways. The lecture is based on a chapter from the speaker’s current book project, Between the Lands of Rubens and of Kafka: Modernism Beyond Metropolis in Belgium and Bohemia.

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UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
"Crimes, Not Just Tragedies: Reporting War Against Ukraine"

Tue, May 28, 2024
4:00 PM PDT
UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
RSVP: ucla.in/4bjbWWe

Join the center for a conversation with Ukrainian journalist, Nataliya Gumenyuk, on how to reunite truth with justice amidst war against Ukraine.

Since the Russian invasion began, The Public Interest Journalism Lab co-founded The Reckoning Project to document alleged war crimes across Ukraine. They have collected evidence of civilian shelling, abductions, torture, and attacks on hospitals and residential areas. Ensuring every tragedy is documented involves meticulous evidence gathering, verified testimonies, and robust digital archiving to reunite truth with justice.

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Crimes, Not Just Tragedies: Reporting War Against Ukraine.
Join us for a conversation with Ukrainian journalist, Nataliya Gumenyuk, on how to reunite truth with justice amidst war against Ukraine.

Tuesday, May 28, 2024
4:00 PM
Bunche Hall Room 10383
RSVP: ucla.in/4bjbWWe

Since the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion, The Public Interest Journalism Lab co-founded The Reckoning Project, an initiative of Ukrainian and international reporters, lawyers, and analysts to document alleged war crimes in all the regions of Ukraine. Since then they have collected evidence of the shelling of civilians during evacuation, abduction and ex*****on, electrocutions and torture, deliberate attacks on the hospitals and maternity wards, indiscriminate attacks on train stations and residential areas. Russia's strategy is to outdo their previous crimes with even bigger tragedies so that the previous wrongdoings are erased from people’s memories. How to document every story of every tragedy, family, street, and city in a way that nobody can deny it? How do we reunite truth with justice?

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IDS alumna. Social entrepreneur. UCLA Alumni Association president. International Institute commencement speaker.

Ann Wang (UCLA 2013) has pursued a career that combines her passion for equitable development, entrepreneurship and service.

Read her story: ucla.in/4dSVcqc

UCLA International Institute
2024 Commencement Ceremony
June 15, 2024 – 6:30 p.m.
Royce Hall

Tickets available only through graduating students.

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UCLA Center for India and South Asia-CISA, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, others
"The Bake / Jairazbhoy Digital Archive
of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts”
followed by panel discussion with UCLA faculty

Wed, May 22, 2024
⏱1:00 PM PDT
📍Schoenberg Music Building, Rm 1230 (Green Room) & Online
🎟Iinfo & registration: ucla.in/4bBoHep

Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy recorded tribal, folk, devotional and classical music in eight Indian states to supplement Arnold Adriaan Bake's surveys of Indian music across South Asia. These audiovisual recordings, still images and Bake's Tefiphon audio field recordings are now available online with open access: ucla.in/44Q7ITw

Co-sponsored by UCLA Center for India and South Asia-CISA UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive World Music Center at UCLA Ethnomusicology at UCLA
UCLA Digital Library Program

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UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
"Feminism in China After 2013:
Social Movements, Media and the State”

Fri, May 31, 2024
⏱1:00 PM PDT
📍 UCLA Bunch Hall, Rm 10383
🎟Info & registration: ucla.in/3yjTKwR

Speaker Li Sipan, a participant in and chronicler of post-reform era feminist movements in China, will analyze the relationship between the state, the media and social movements in China, and compare the strategies and efficacy of Chinese feminist activism in response to shifting political opportunities.

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cosponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
"Webinar: A Conversation with No-No Boy”

Thu, May 23, 2024
⏱2:30 PM PDT
🎟Info & registration: ucla.in/4aF7dwZ

Taking inspiration from his own family’s history living through the Vietnam War, as well as many other stories of Asian American experience, Nashville-born songwriter and scholar Julian Saporiti has transformed his years of doctoral study into an innovative project that bridges a divide between art and scholarship. No-No Boy's third full-length LP EMPIRE ELECTRIC was recently released by the Smithsonian Folkways label.

Join Julian in conversation with UCLA professor Kelly Nguyen about the legacy of the Vietnam War and the concept and consequences of the myth of Western Civilization and the false binaries between East and West, especially as crafted and wielded by imperialism.

No-No Boy will also share his music and experience with diaspora.

Check out No-No Boy’s Music:
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Cosponsors: UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Asian American Studies Department Ethnomusicology at UCLA

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UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Film screening of "Golden Voice: Q***r Archives and the Khmer Rouge" followed by Q&A with filmmakers

Tue, May 21, 2024
12:30 PM PDT
Los Angeles Public Library Westwood Branch
First Floor Community Room
Register: ucla.in/3X1zR8n

Filmmakers Tabitha Payne and Mars Verrone will hold a discussion following the screening, moderated by Professor Cindy Nguyen (UCLA). Spots are limited to the first 30 people who register.

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Join us for a screening of Golden Voice, a short documentary about trans survivors of the Khmer Rouge, on May 21 from 12:30pm to 2pm at the Los Angeles Public Library Westwood Branch. Filmmakers Tabitha Payne and Mars Verrone will hold a discussion following the screening, moderated by Professor Cindy Nguyen (UCLA). Spots limited to the first 30 people who register: https://international.ucla.edu/cseas/event/16664. UCLA International Institute