Please join Global Public Affairs faculty and students as we welcome you back to UCLA and the winter quarter. You will get the chance to mingle with faculty along with students from the certificate programs and International Practice Pathways program. You will have the chance to mingle with faculty and students in GPA, as well […]
Join Dr. Stephen Commins and the GPA team for an informal workshop on finding a summer fellowship placement and writing a strong application. Come with explicit questions, concerns and more. As always, check out the blogs from past summer fellows here.
RSVP Required Kate Almquist Knopf has served as director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, an academic institution within the U.S. Department of Defense, since July 2014. Kate will present “Africa's Strategic Place in a World Adrift,” discussing why Africa will matter to the United States (and the world) in the coming decade and […]
Cecilia Choi from the U.S. State Department and Jeffrey Janis from Peace Corps will present information for students interested in careers with the United States government. Cecilia currently serves as the State Department's Diplomat in Residence for Southern California. She was previously the director of trade and investment at the National Security Council serving under […]
Lunch with RSVP Dr. Mark S. Freudenberger is the Director of the Land Tenure and Property Rights Sector for Tetra Tech ARD and was the former Chief of Party for the USAID’s Property Rights and Resource Governance project implemented by Tetra Tech ARD. He brings to this position over 30 years of field experience in natural […]
Lunch with RSVP Darfur United is more than soccer. It is a movement for hope. In 2012, after years of visiting refugee survivors of a crisis that has been called “hell on earth” and genocide, iACT, a Los Angeles-based organization, co-created with refugees on the Chad-Sudan border the Darfur United Men’s Team and took it to compete […]
Teaching Heritage languages with project-based learning For and by teachers, this collaborative online event aims to bring together language educators from all levels of instruction and language backgrounds to share their projects and explore ways to create a hub of information on best practices, resources, and tips for heritage language (HL) teachers and programs to […]
UCLA will observe International Education Week (IEW) — a joint initiative of the U.S. Departments of State and Education that champions international education and exchange — in a virtual format from November 16 to 20, 2020. It is a challenging time to commemorate IEW, but as this video and the IEW Featured Events flyer make clear, […]
Live on Zoom Tuesday, Nov. 17 10 a.m. PST | 1 p.m. EST | 6 p.m. GMT Presented as part of UCLA's 2020 International Education Week, UCLA Alumni Affairs invites you to join the next episode in our series of conversations with Bruins living abroad during the coronavirus outbreak. As countries across the world struggle […]
Sarah S. Willen, an associate professor of Anthropology and director of the Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, will discuss her new book, Fighting For Dignity: Migrant Lives At Israel's Margins, which received the Association for Israel Studies Award for Best Book in Israel Studies in 2019. Tuesday, […]
