Applications are officially open for the 19th Korea–America Student Conference (KASC 19) — a three-week academic and cultural exchange connecting college students from Korea and the United States.
The UCLA campus, including the offices of the International Institute, will be closed Dec 22, 2025–Jan 1, 2026. Our public events program will resume in the New Year.
A moderated discussion with Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London, one of the world's foremost scholars of warfare.
In this book, Suzy K. Lee traces the history of labor export programs in South Korea and the Philippines, offers explanations for why and how they diverged so dramatically. It describes the multiple pathways through which migration can serve national development projects and the conditions under which different models succeed or fail.
Join us on January 13 for an in-person-only talk at UCLA by Professor William Schniedewind, who will be discussing the significance of the archaeological findings at Tell Shaddud.
Colloquium with Maximilian Larena (Uppsala University)
Talk by Yanxiao He, Post-doc Research Fellow at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
A talk on the making of Chile’s welfare state by Felipe Martínez-Fernández, historian of modern medicine.
Professor Sara Ann Swenson (Dartmouth College) presents new research on how global trends in humanitarianism are enacted at the local level through the everyday ethics and informal practices of low-income and middle-class Buddhist volunteers in Vietnam.
First in a series on "Scientific and Environmental Diplomacy."
Join us on January 22nd for a webinar with Professor Yossi Leshem on his highly successful environmental project that has helped connect people in Israel, Palestine, and Jordan around a joint agricultural initiative.
Monday, December 22, 2025
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