“Nothing was as different [from my previous travels] as going to Japan," said international development studies major Max Odle of his study abroad program at International Christian University in Tokyo.
From Nov. 17–21, units across campus will host events highlighting international education, exchange and research.
Temporary Mexican labor migration to the U.S. is largely legal today due to the rapid expansion of H2-A and H2-B visas, reversing a longstanding trend of unauthorized migrant flows.
Meet Jacqueline Torres, an Art teacher at San Fernando High School and current M.A. student in Latin American Studies at UCLA.
The Cantonese Arts and Culture Endowment has been established at UCLA with a generous gift from May Chong '79, a longtime supporter of UCLA. She established this fund to preserve and promote Cantonese traditions, arts, and language and to foster education and cultural exchange and community engagement for future generations.
A $1.5 million pledge to UCLA from Jasvant and Meera Modi will support the establishment of the Bhagawan Abhinandan Endowed Chair for Jain Studies and Religions of South Asia.
Yondonjamts Jigjidsuren (UCLA 2022) spent the past three years as a student mentor and teacher, first in Boyle Heights, then in Cambodia as a Peace Corps volunteer. He worked with the local community in his Cambodian town to create a computer lab for students, leaving a lasting legacy.
The 2025 International Symposium on Global Chinese Philanthropy took place on September 5-6 at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.
We thank a number of UCLA faculty who have made significant contributions to the International Institute.
“This season's programming transforms the big screen by looking to the past — through the lens of UCLA scholars and student activism, visionary explorations of AI and technology, and 60 years of Archive preservation,” said May Hong HaDuong, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
UCLA faculty take on new roles in the leadership of the International Institute, its academic programs and its centers and programs.
The Perfect Harmony Cultural Exchange Association, in partnership with the Chinese Women's New Life Movement Club of Los Angeles, proudly presented the long-awaited Perfect Harmony Cultural Exchange Talent Expo 2025 on Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. at the Culture Center of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles.
After becoming a U.S. citizen, “[Hannah] Arendt idealized the U.S. as a consent-based revival of Rome. She missed the rethinking of the civil rights moment in the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s, as well as anticolonial thought after the Second World War,” said David Kim.
UCLA geographer Shaina Potts places her analysis of the wide geographic application of U.S. commercial law after World War II within a specific framework of imperialism: one that cloaks the exertion of state power in economic and legal terms, effectively removing financial issues from the political sphere.
