The International Institute welcomes friends and new colleagues as center directors in the 2026–27 academic year.

The Center for Korean Studies receives grant for "Koreans in the World" project. The Korean Studies Conference Support Grant supports UCLA Ph.D. students to present Korean studies-related research at ...

What does it mean to bear witness when authoritarian governments seek to suppress independent journalism and criminalize the pursuit of truth? In this year's Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, Wall Street ...

Please Look After Mom, the story of a family searching for a mother who goes missing in a crowded Seoul subway station, became a New York Times bestseller and brought contemporary Korean fiction to ...

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 ...

The James S. Coleman African Studies Center will host the Southern California African Linguistics Meeting (SoCALM), which will bring together linguists from the region to present their current ...

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 ...

In China, the final five centuries BCE were a time of profound political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that would come to define classical Chinese civilization. This talk explores ...

Over the past decade, America has quietly and successfully waged a new kind of war against the financial networks of terrorist groups, rogue regimes, proliferators, and criminal syndicates. Juan ...

A political and economic overview of a developing nation. Living standards for Peruvian people were unbearable in the late 1980s due to an unmanageable debt and hyper-inflation. The two ...

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 ...