Talks will be drawn from a number of subfields. SoCALM will take place at UCLA on Saturday, November 7, 2026 , 0900-1800, in the Herb Morris Room in Royce Hall (Royce 306). UCLA has long been an ...

Saravá Shalom is a poetic documentary about dialogue between Afro-Brazilian, Indigenous and Jewish mystical traditions. André Feitosa, artist from Northern Brazil, discovered that his family descends ...

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The baka/bacá, errant spirits on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola that turn humans into animals through sorcery, are the subject of Robin Derby's new book, “Bêtes Noires." Not just any animals, mind ...

UCLA International Institute, May 23, 2018 — In the course of six months, from October 1965 through mid-1966, roughly half a million members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (Partai Komunis ...

In a masterful lecture, Ndlovu-Gatsheni, professor and chair of epistemologies of the global south at Bayreuth University (Germany), laid out the intellectual history of decolonization in Africa and ...

Yvette Hovsepian Bearce, who earned a PhD in Islamic Studies in 2013, publishes a book on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The publication arrives at a propitious time, as Khamenei’s support ...

In July, 2012, the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism published the English Edition of The Collected Works of Korean Buddhism in thirteen volumes. This is the first comprehensive collection of Korean ...

An on-line database bibliographic database of teaching & learning materials for less commonly taught languages The UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP), is an on-line bibliographic database of ...

“ICE OUT: Arte en Resistencia!”, an exhibition organized by UCLA undergraduates, opens March 10 with a panel discussion, followed by live music. It features work by Los Angeles artists Mykle Parker, ...

The early fourth century in China is conventionally described with the epigrammatic phrase wu Hu luan Hua, or “the five Hu (nomadic tribes of from the north) lay waste to the Hua (Huaxia; central ...

Noted oceanic scientist Jin Wu discusses the 15th century expeditions of the Chinese mariner Zheng He & the celebration of the 600th anniversary of his first voyage What Zheng He accomplished, Jin Wu ...