UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem President Tamir Sheafer sign the MOU between the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and The Hebrew University on September 22, ...

Compiled from the Latin American Studies M.A. program course list and faculty email submissions.

Deanna Placa has been awarded a yearlong Newman Civic Fellowship for the 2026–27 academic year. Fellows are nominated by their president or chancellor based on their potential for public leadership ...

In anticipation of the 2026 World Cup, the Latin American Institute's three‑day professional development opportunity for K–12 educators will explore the cultural, historical, and social significance ...

Feminist Armenian Research Collective's (FemARC) Third Workshop, organized by Melissa Bilal, Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture at UCLA and Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart ...

Interdisciplinary artist Gala Porras-Kim, who completed both a B.A. and an M.A. at UCLA, won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship last year. UCLA International Institute, May 26, 2026 — Gala Porras-Kim, ...

Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of the birth of the eminent linguist and polymath Hrač‘eay Ačaṙian (1876-1953) Organizers: Peter Cowe (UCLA) Hrach Martirosyan (Leiden University) ...

At a recent CISA talk, journalist-author Neha Dixit spoke about the lived experience of poor rural Indians who emigrate to Delhi for work, only to end up living in near-permanent economic precarity.

Pleas click here to participate via the Zoom Webinar platform. This talk examines everyday life, memory, and governance in Dersim (Tunceli, Turkey), a mountainous enclave located between the southern ...

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 ...

The LAI is committed to supporting the instruction of less commonly taught Latin American languages as a means of training the next generation of Latin America specialists. Spoken by over 200 million ...

UCLA International Institute, April 24, 2026 — Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies Michael Berry and celebrated contemporary Chinese novelist Fang Fang (author of “Wuhan Diary”) and have ...