.::. UCLA International Institute About Us People Academics Centers News Events Multimedia Our Bruins Give About Us People Academics Centers News Events Multimedia Our Bruins Give Top International Institute Home This carousel rotates automatically. Use the Pause button to stop rotation before reading or activating story links. Use Previous and Next to move between slides. Center for Near Eastern Studies Historian of premodern India the 25th winner of Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award The author of 12 books and editor of three volumes of academic research, Richard M. Eaton has made signal contributions to the field of Islamic studies. GO TO ARTICLE Richard M. Eaton of the University of Arizona (left), with the Giorgio Levi Della Award bronze medal. (Eason photo: University of Arizona.) UCLA International Institute Solar energy and immigrant labor projects win GDL Project Incubator funding The UCLA Global Development Lab, a Bruin student association, celebrated its 11th anniversary at an end-of-the-year event in May. Presentations of international/community development projects developed by GDL members for its Project Incubator competition were the focus of the evening. GO TO ARTICLE Previous Next Recent News “Bêtes Noires” by Robin Derby wins Caribbean Studies Association book award The honor marks the second time the UCLA historian has received the rigorous Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award for her work. Latin American Institute Accomplished Bruin seniors win International Development Studies Awards The three award winners of 2026 are living proof that the idealism of IDS students is paired with a deep commitment to doing the work on the ground and in the classroom that prepare them to make significant contributions to the world. UCLA International Institute Four International Institute students win Dean's Prize for research The winners' four prizes account for roughly 21% of all Dean's Prizes awarded for creative and research projects in the humanities, arts and social sciences category this year — a stellar student achievement. UCLA International Institute Artist Gala Porras-Kim to speak at International Institute commencement ceremony Interdisciplinary artist Gala Porras-Kim, who completed both a B.A. and an M.A. at UCLA, won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship last year. UCLA International Institute Migrant workers in India's informal sector squeezed on all sides At a recent CISA talk, journalist-author Neha Dixit spoke about the lived experience of poor rural Indians who emigrate to Delhi for work, only to end up living in near-permanent economic precarity. Center for India and South Asia German consul general's visit gives UCLA class perspective on transatlantic partnerships Consul General of Germany in Los Angeles Andrea Sasse recently visited a community-engaged course taught by UCLA professor David Kim, where she discussed issues ranging from diplomacy and intellectual curiosity to career development. UCLA International Institute Michael Berry and Chinese novelist Fang Fang win book prize "The Running Flame" is the third work by Fang Fang that Berry has translated into English. Center for Chinese Studies More News Links Office of the Vice Provost Inclusive Excellence Generative Themes Initiative: Local Partnerships, Global Impacts Funding Opportunities International Education Week 2025 Global Awards 2025 Faculty News Breaking international law is easier for great powers Jul 19, 2026. UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala, speaking on The Global Dialogue podcast of Pakistan Alumni Global Network: “[S]ometimes big states simply break the rules and get away with it because they're big and there's little that can be done. You could use the example of Russia and Ukraine today, or the U.S. attacking Iran this year." Continue reading: Breaking international law is easier for great powers Robin Derby wins book award for “Bêtes Noires” "Bêtes Noires ranks first as the most theoretically rigorous, intellectually ambitious and epistemologically disruptive of the 40 books reviewed by the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award Committee. … [It] dismantles colonial discourses that demonize Haitian and Dominican cosmologies as merely “superstitious” [and] approaches indigenous memory, the animal world, spirits, and colonial histories as legitimate archives of knowledge…" Continue reading: Robin Derby wins book award for “Bêtes Noires” Upcoming Events 10Sep2026Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies The October 2026 Israeli Elections: Is a New Government Possible? A webinar on Israel's upcoming pivotal elections featuring David Makovsky, the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near... 12Sep2026Center for Chinese Studies Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times: Chinese Documentaries of the 1980s and '90s A weekend of screenings at the Gardena Cinema. 25Sep2026Center for Study of International Migration Migration across the Americas II We will be hosting our conference, Migration across the Americas II: Cross-Border Connections and People on the Move, on September... 2Oct2026National Heritage Language Resource Center 2026 Annual Heritage Language Schools Conference This conference brings together everyone who is interested in learning about, collaborating with, and advocating for community-based HL schools. Participants... 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