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…
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…
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,…
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…
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:…
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…
Photo by Rick Loomis UCLA Strategic Communications | May 6, 2021 On the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) 86th anniversary, an effort by journalist and UCLA lecturer David Kipen to revive a…
An image of the French district in downtown Los Angeles. The image shows Aliso Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with signs labeling buildings “Griffins Transfer and Storage Co.” and…
The Division of Humanities is proud to announce that Near Eastern Languages and Culture Professor, Michael Cooperson, has just won the 2020/21 Sheikh Zayed Award Translation Prize for his Arabic…
The Division of Humanities is delighted to announce that Professor Adriana Vazquez in the Department of Classics has been awarded the prestigious Rome Prize next year for her project “Window Reception:…
UCLA student Jazminne Rodriguez. (Photo courtesy of Ms. Rodriguez.) In honor of International Women’s Day 2021 on March 8, the UCLA International Institute is publishing a series of profiles of…
Peggy McInerny | March 10, 2021 In honor of International Women’s Day 2021 on March 8, the UCLA International Institute is publishing a series of profiles of female Bruins. Abeer Ali…
Photo Courtesy of David Marquez – An Águilas del Desierto volunteer carries a cross on each search to mark where any intact bodies have been found. UCLA Newsroom | Alison…
In a giant leap for our language studies programs, the departments of French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, Italian, and Scandinavian have completed a merger resulting in the new Department…
Miwon Kwon (Photo credit: ©Todd Cheney, 2015) Internationally renowned scholar and curator of contemporary art Miwon Kwon has been named the inaugural Walter Hopps Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art…
Thursday, February 4, 2021 Los Angeles—Today, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Michael Berry will receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500 to translate Soft Burial (Ruan mai)…
On Saturday, January 9th, 2021, the Modern Languages Association will be hosting a panel session in honor of UCLA Professor Hector Calderon’s (Spanish and Portuguese) groundbreaking anthology, “Criticism in the…
According to followers of the ancient Jain religion, Bhagwan Abhinandan-nath, the 4th Tirthankar/Ford Maker of Jain Dharma, was an apostle of unconditional nonviolence, peace, harmony, austerity, interdependence and co-existence with…
Diversifying the Classics is delighted to announce the second edition of Los Angeles’ Festival of Hispanic classical theater, LA Escena 2020 , now in a largely virtual mode. Since launching…
From ACLS Website 10/27/20 Marissa López F’19, Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), always felt there needed to be a mobile app…