This conference promotes original research using the languages students study. It gives them an opportunity to integrate their language skills with focused investigations into the histories, politics, literatures, and cultures of the regions where those languages are spoken. It also allows students to meet peers from other colleges (or the same school) who have similar...

Václav Havel’s idea of “living in truth” has become a catchphrase in discussions of East Central European dissent during the Cold War. Behind this seemingly straightforward idea, however, were many competing ideas about what the truth is, how we can know it, and how we might “live in” it. Havel’s own accounts of “living in...

“Venetian Life” (1920) is one of Osip Mandelstam’s most complex and semantically rich poems, and many a study has been devoted to deciphering this text. Even at the most rudimentary level, however, this project is far from complete. The principal genre-determining subtext of the poem has gone unnoticed, as have other intertextual connections. An examination...

Film Synopsis: REFUSENIK is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year movement to free Soviet Jews. It shows how a small grassroots effort bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower blossomed into an international human rights campaign that engaged the disempowered and world leaders alike. Told through the eyes of activists on...

DUE TO THE TRAGIC EVENT THAT HAS OCCURRED TODAY AND ONGOING POLICE ACTIVITY ON CAMPUS, WE HAVE CANCELLED THIS EVENT. About Celebrations across Cultures is a showcase of the diverse cultural talents of UCLA's student body. The show encourages students to embrace diversity and become global citizens. Interested in trying out? If you are interested...