Center for Global Management

South East European Film Festival, also known as SEEfest, is an annual film festival held during the first week of May in various venues throughout Los Angeles, California, and recently streaming online as well. The competitive festival presents feature films, documentaries and shorts produced in or thematically related to South East Europe and the Caucasus.

Peri-urban areas are no longer simply an appendage to urban cores in southern metropolitan regions. Peri-urbanization is dominated by domestic and global firms investing in spectacular, speculative residential and industrial real estate inducing widespread displacement of peri-urban residents, transforming rural landscapes.

For over 94 years, World Trade Week Southern California has been the most extensive program of its kind in the nation, actively promoting global trade, which has supported our region in crisis and will be one of the most important drivers of economic recovery in the coming years. 

The Biden Administration started nuclear negotiations with Iran amid significant regional escalations by Tehran, its proxies, and its adversaries, mainly Israel.

A book talk for the launch of the US edition with Olivette Otele, SA Smythe and Dominic Thomas.

Many Armenian Genocide survivors wrote about their concentration camp experience in newspaper articles and memoirs published in the decades after World War I, yet it took almost a century for the first scholarly examinations of their internment to appear.

Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar tells the story of Russia's encounter with viniculture and winemaking.

In Illegal, Elizabeth F. Cohen reveals that our current crisis has roots in early twentieth century white nationalist politics, which began to reemerge in the 1980s. 

This conversation focuses on Ochy Curiel’s living practice and legacy of realizing questions out in the world, questions that engage the concepts of decoloniality, world building, and landscapes of freedom across Abya Yala and Turtle Island.

Jerusalem and the Temple Mount have emerged as critical foci of the Arab-Israeli conflict. On the surface it appears that their significance to the Jewish world is as a symbol of our national sovereignty that emanates from their essential holiness.

The Ethiopian government’s dispute with the Tigray Regional State escalated into a military engagement when the Federal Government responded to a pre-emptive attack by the troops of the regional government of Tigray, run by the TPLF (the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front).

The H1-B visa system – the country’s largest guestworker visa program, involving several hundred thousand high skilled workers – has been a controversy ever since it was introduced over 30 years ago.

Since the British set up the penal system in Burma, Burmese prisons have been sites of political contestation, symbolism, ideological advancement, as well as new forms of agency and resistance. Burmese prisons have also been the sites of deep terror, violence, and inhumanity.

Journalists Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block spent years chronicling the human consequences of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s relentless immigration enforcement in Maricopa County, Arizona.

This presentation will focus on one of the most marginal segments of the Indian population, the communities that were brought under the net of the notorious Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 in colonial India and subsequently ‘denotified’ in the post-independence period.

In this event, Japan and COVID-19, two of the world’s foremost scholars in global crises and viral pandemics will discuss the response to COVID-19 at the global and national level.

American Exceptionalism has been the grounding concept of US domestic and foreign policy since the American Revolution. In a post-WWII era, it has dominated global diplomacy and security policy.

The UCLA Taiwan in the World lecture series aims to promote Taiwan studies and disseminate knowledge about Taiwan in a global context and shed light on Taiwan’s political economy, international relations, and US-Taiwan-China relations, as well as Taiwan’s society, political system, social structure, and institutions.

In this groundbreaking work, Julie Kleinman chronicles how West Africans use the Gare du Nord to create economic opportunities, confront police harassment, and forge connections to people outside of their communities.

Last April the Center for Brazilian Studies and Latin American Institute convened a panel of experts to discuss the pandemic in Brazil and the denialism of President Jair Bolsonaro. One year later, Brazil’s hospitals are overwhelmed, deaths are mounting, and vaccines are in short supply.

A panel discussion with political scientists and Russia experts Kathryn Stoner and Daniel Treisman. Moderated by Kal Raustiala, Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law at UCLA School of Law and Professor at the UCLA International Institute.

The UCLA Department of Anthropology's Race, Racism, Policing and State Violence Webinar Series with Noura Erakat, Rutgers University; Darryl Li, University of Chicago and Jemima Pierre, UCLA.

Yael Tamir, the President of Beit-Berl College in Israel and a former cabinet minister, will discuss the influence of identity politics on the state of democracy in both Israel and the United States. 

Launched in 2011, the UCLA International Institute's Going Global Graduate Student Conference provides a forum for graduate students across disciplines to present their research that examines critically a wide variety of global issues from different angles and perspectives.

Focusing on refugees in camps and cities in Africa, it identifies approaches that can be effective in improving the welfare of refugees, increasing social cohesion between refugees and host communities, and reducing the need for onward migration.