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Symposium on Korean America and the US-Korea Relations

This symposium will discuss the role of Korean Americans in local, national and international politics, as well as the new direction in Korean-American studies.

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A corazón abierto: Notas para una escritura quirúrgica

Event organized by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese

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Pathways to WWIII with Stephen Kotkin

A talk by Stephen Kotkin, Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and John P. Birkelund '52 Professor Emeritus in History, on the origins of WWII and the pathway to WWIII.

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Sites of Encounter: Teaching about Medieval Damascus

A lecture for K-12 educators.

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The Iran War

This event is part of the Center's urgent series offering different perspectives on the 2026 Iran War.

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Anime Beyond Entertainment: Problematizing Ainu Representations in Golden Kamuy

Colloquium with Rika Ito

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2026 NTNU Huayu Best Scholarship Information Session

The Huayu BEST Scholarship offers the opportunity to learn Mandarin Chinese and explore Taiwan. Open to all current students of UCLA. At this information session, scholarship representatives will provide an introduction to the 2026 Huayu BEST Scholarship Program at NTNU.

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[Book Talk] Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora

Prof. Ju Hui Judy Han (UCLA) joined by Prof. Giancarlo Cornejo Salinas (UCLA), Prof. Grace Kyung-won Hong (UCLA), Laura Hyun Yi Kang (UC Irvine), and Dr. Yeong Ran Kim

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The 2025-26 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace

Ambassador Eric Garcetti, 26th United States Ambassador to India and 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles

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Nature Overturned: Race, Revolution, and Political Conflict in Mexico, 1780-1835

Mexico’s early push for racial equality after independence sparked fierce conflicts between elites and ordinary citizens, ultimately derailing the country’s first experiment with representative government.

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