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Join us for a talk exploring how democratic values can be strengthened in terrorism-affected contexts. The talk will discuss findings from a Burkina Faso study showing how strategic messaging can effectively build democratic resilience against authoritarian threats.

This talk examines the construction of African parliament buildings by the Chinese state as a significant modality of contemporary diplomatic engagement, offering a critical lens on Sino-African relations and the evolution of African political institutions.

This presentation introduces UCLA Library's Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP), detailing its community-driven framework for preserving endangered cultural heritage, with a focus on South Asian projects and the application process.

Robert Lee Suettinger's recent biography of Hu Yaobang, 'The Conscience of the Party', informs this discussion on political struggle among CCP elites and the legacy of 'reform and opening'.

This presentation explores how people build a sense of place and community in the development zones and corridors that have become focal sites of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia.

Join us for a film screening of 'On The Way To South', followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the film directors who document the heroic stories of escapes from North Korea, together with first-hand testimonies from North Korean escapees.

1980s South Korea saw many reports promising a 'new office revolution' or a 'new wind' that would dramatically change South Korean work life through automation (jadonghwa). Drawing on newspaper archives from the 1980s and 1990s, this presentation looks at some of the technological promises and narrative tropes that were used in this period to show how offices would allow greater connections to developed countries.

Dr Jinjoon Lee explores ontology in the post-digital age, where myth and his tory, memory and data, identity and anonymity converge.