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22 Oct  2025
[Non-CKS] 19th Korea–America Student Conference

[Non-CKS] 19th Korea–America Student Conference

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.

25 Nov  2025
10:00 AM
An Afternoon with Jiang Nengjie

An Afternoon with Jiang Nengjie

Screening and discussion with film director Jiang Nengjie

1 Dec  2025
3:00 PM
Hua’er: Mountain Songs of Gansu, China
1 Dec  2025
6:00 PM
Past-Proofing the Future: Theorizing the Erasure of Djulfa, Twenty Years On

Past-Proofing the Future: Theorizing the Erasure of Djulfa, Twenty Years On

Virtual lecture by Simon Maghakyan, Ph.D., with commentary by Professor Peter Cowe, Ph.D..

4 Dec  2025
12:00 PM
Climate Emergency and Human Rights

Climate Emergency and Human Rights

The impact of the advisory opinion of the inter-American court of Human Rights AO 32/25

4 Dec  2025
12:00 PM
Cancer and Health Systems: The Case of Mexico
5 Dec  2025
9:00 AM
Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia, 1600–1800

Strange Synchronicities and Familiar Parallels in Asia, 1600–1800

In this cycle of three conferences, historians of the Ottoman, Qing, and Mughal empires return to the problem of comparison by considering synchronicities and structural parallels across Asia. We focus on three broad areas: Imperial Ideology (Empires of Thought), Imperial Operations (Empires in Practice), and Society, Materiality, and Knowledge (Empires of Things).

6 Dec  2025
9:00 AM
Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Tenny Arlen's To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?

Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Tenny Arlen's To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?

The final installment of the International Armenian Literary Alliance's Literary Lights 2025 reading series features Tenny Arlen's posthumous poetry collection To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?

9 Dec  2025
3:00 PM
An Egyptian Narrative of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Some Historiographical Questions
Historiography of the Middle East

An Egyptian Narrative of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Some Historiographical Questions

This presentation explores the Six-Day War of 1967 from an Egyptian perspective, challenging dominant Israeli-centered narratives. It examines the war’s broader historical scope, the role of civil-military relations, and its place within the Cold War.

10 Dec  2025
9:00 AM
How to Repatriate the Material Heritage of the Middle East (and Beyond)?

How to Repatriate the Material Heritage of the Middle East (and Beyond)?

A graduate student conference featuring presentations by UCLA students in the Anthropology seminar "Repatriation: The Heritage of the Middle East and North Africa.” This event is limited to UCLA faculty and students.

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An Afternoon with Jiang Nengjie

Tuesday, November 25, 2025
10:00 AM

Screening and discussion with film director Jiang Nengjie Read More

Tuesday, November 25, 2025
10:00 AM

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Past-Proofing the Future: Theorizing the Erasure of Djulfa, Twenty Years On

Monday, December 1, 2025
6:00 PM

Virtual lecture by Simon Maghakyan, Ph.D., with commentary by Professor Peter Cowe, Ph.D.. Read More

Monday, December 1, 2025
6:00 PM