Tag Archive for: UCLA Humanities

Alex Stern

Humanities for the 21st century: A conversation with incoming dean Alex Stern

Jonathan Riggs | October 11, 2022 Alexandra Minna Stern…
A photo of a member of the humanitarian search-and-rescue group Águilas del Desierto.

Professor’s Award-Winning Documentary on Migration

  By Alison Hewitt   When UCLA professor Maite…

New digital exhibit explores Jewish history in Boyle Heights

In the 1930s, the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights…
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UCLA Announces New Digital Hub For Globalizing Japanese Studies

In 2013, the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures…
A photo of D’Artagnan Scorza filming his address to the UCLA College’s class of 2021.

UCLA College to host virtual commencement celebration June 11

Civic leader, social justice advocate and UCLA alumnus D’Artagnan…
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar to speak at UCLA’s Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership, May 13

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar will speak at the…
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Linguistics student fulfills dream at UCLA

In honor of International Women’s Day 2021 on March 8,…
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UCLA to launch new social justice curriculum with $5 million grant from Mellon Foundation

A $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will…

UCLA establishes Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies

In a move that defies a national trend toward diminishing higher-education…
A photo collage of Kristy Hinds, Leann Pham, Genevieve Finn and Kai Huang

UCLA alumna awarded Mitchell Scholarship, first in 20 years

This time next year, Genevieve Finn ’20 will be studying…