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Courtesy of Kim Stanley Robinson By Anushka Chakrabarti  Editor’s note: The next Possible Worlds lecture will take place on March 11 and will feature internationally recognized innovation and sustainability expert Darja Isaksson.  For the third installment of the Possible Worlds lecture series, Kim Stanley Robinson —recognized as one of the greatest living science fiction writers — joined students,…

Courtesy of The Royal Household of Spain (en español: Casa Real) By Anushka Chakrabarti  Barbara Fuchs, is the first recipient of the Ñ Prize, an award created to honor individuals who have promoted Spanish language and culture internationally. The Ñ Prize was created by the Instituto Cervantes, a Spanish public institution created in 1991 with…

Professor Marissa López examines Robert Becker’s “Diseños of California Ranchos: Maps of thirty-seven Land Grants if 1822-1846 from the Records of the United States District Court, San Francisco” in the Rare Books room at Central Library downtown. – Yvonne Condes   UCLA Professor Marissa López’s Summer Writers’ Workshop empowered young attendees to map out their unique vision of L.A.’s future history—and their…

Max Gordy | September 14, 2021 When a lot of people look at maps they see objective facts: the black lines depicting borders, a blue line tracing the path of a river, and locations of mountains, cities and lakes. Marissa López, professor in the departments of English and Chicana and Chicano and Central American studies, sees…

Mary Daily | Photos by Claudia Lucia | September 14, 2021 During a trip to Mexico when she was 15, Charlene Villaseñor Black wandered into the Church of Santa Prisca y San Sebastián in Taxco. “I was dazzled by the 18th-century interior, with Baroque paintings and gold retablos [devotional works] perfectly preserved,” says the Arizona native,…

With the support of campus leadership, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies launched an emergency effort to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and help Scholars at Risk. The central campus administration has committed funding, but to bring several scholars from Afghanistan, we need your help. We would now like to give the…

By Jonathan Riggs | UCLA College Aspiring novelist Woody Brown is going to have quite the author’s bio on a future dust jacket. “I grew up a mighty weird autistic kid who was presumed to be retarded because I couldn’t speak,” he says. “My intelligence was not fully acknowledged until I went to Pasadena City…

Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies, Marissa López’s digital humanities project, Picturing Mexican America, teamed up with 826LA to create a virtual summer writers workshop for middle- and high-school students. 826LA is a non-profit dedicated to developing the writing skills of students 6 to 18, and provides a variety of services such as tutoring, workshops, help for…

Photo by Filomena Cruz  Madeline Adamo | July 28, 2021 | UCLA Newsroom As you walk along Pacific Avenue in Venice there’s a tattoo parlor — its side wall covered in graffiti — scraps of trash strewn about. Across the alley, interrupting the classic beach community scene, you encounter a wall installation of 389 pink and…

The Cervantes Institute, a Spanish government agency dedicated to promoting Spanish around the world, has chosen Barbara Fuchs, UCLA professor of Spanish and English, to receive its inaugural Ñ Prize, honoring her work disseminating Spanish language and culture through theater and literature. The president of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, will join Fuchs on July 22 at…

Left to right: Ambassador of Greece to the United States Alexandra Papadopoulou and UCLA SNF Hellenic Center Director Sharon E. J. Gerstel. (Photo: Courtesy of UCLA SNF Hellenic Center) News Release (Los Angeles, CA – June 30, 2021) UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture (UCLA SNF Hellenic Center) Director Sharon…

Photo Credit: Ben Alkaly/UCLA Photo Caption: Devin Fitzgerald, shown here in 2018 working with students, helped create remote-learning alternatives during the pandemic for students to research, think and write about books and book collections in new ways. Ariane Bicho | June 14, 2021 | UCLA Newsroom  It’s been more than a year since the coronavirus halted…

Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer. She has worked civil rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as vice-president and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received…

UCLA senior Joseph Matveyenko. (Photo provided by student.) By Peggy McInerny, Director of Communications |  UCLA International Institute, June 9, 2021 Joseph Matveyenko (UCLA 2021) will graduate from UCLA later this week with a double major in Russian studies and political science. Not only did he complete two B.A.s at UCLA, he wrote two research…

Photo by David Mark via Pixabay. By Leanna Kramer, UCLA Russian Flagship Program  UCLA International Institute/ UCLA Russian Flagship Program, May 13, 2021 — This year, three of UCLA’s Russian Flagship students were awarded the prestigious Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). CLS is a fully-funded intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of…

On Thursday, May 27, at 1:30pm PST,  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Professor, Domenico Ingenito, will be appearing on the KCRW radio show, Bookworm, hosted by Michael Silverblatt, to talk about Persian literature and the opportunities that UCLA offers to study Persian language in Southern California. During the show, Michael Silverblatt will also…

Barbara and George Olympios in 1934. Photo: Courtesy of the Olympios family The National Herald | May 22, 2021 LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture (UCLA SNF Hellenic Center) received a generous gift from Stavros Olympios in memory of his parents to create the George and…

Waseda International House of Literature in Tokyo, designed by Kengo Kuma. (Photo courtesy of Yutaka Iijima) In 2013, the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures faced a troubling possibility: its entire program in Japanese literature and culture might collapse. Both its faculty members in this popular field of study were being courted by an…

Oriah Amit, graduate student in the Department of English, is serving as a historical consultant on the science fiction drama TV HBO series The Nevers. Set in Victorian London, the series follows a group of women with supernatural abilities; Oriah, whose dissertation focuses on late Victorian and Edwardian speculative fiction, used her expertise to advise…