
UCLA to create new Black Resource Center in major step for Black student community
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Read MoreProfessor Maite Zubiaurre is the winner of the 2020 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of art and medicine. As the Choice review indicates, Talking Trash. Cultural Uses of Waste, will be of interest “to those working in anthropology and sociology, visual media…
Read MoreYizhou Chen graduated from UCLA in Spring 2018 with a double major in German and Mathematics. He initially chose to learn German because he has always been fascinated by the German culture. Since high school, he has been reading works by German authors such as Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann. In order to learn more about…
Read MoreProfessor Dr. Todd Presner will deliver the 24th Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture entitled From Wire Recorder to Database–Testimony Technologies and the Digitization of the Holocaustat the United States Holocaust Museum on October 18th at 7pm-9pm in Washington, DC. In this lecture, Dr. Todd Presner will focus on the technological history of Holocaust testimony…
Read MoreAustin Mendoza is a fourth year psychobiology major with a minor in German. He initially chose to study German in order to learn his grandmother’s native tongue, and declared the minor in order to continue studying German language, culture, and history more comprehensively. Austin has always been intensely interested in people and cultures from…
Read MoreStephanie Truskowski (history major and German minor) graduated from UCLA in 2018. She initially chose to study German because of her interest in the history of the country and the culture. Her interest primarily lies in the history of ideologies because, as she states, “the ideologies that developed historically continue to influence how we perceive…
Read MoreThe Daily Bruin recently published an article about how students, staff and faculty have been discussing what words like “democracy,” “humanity” and “heroism” mean in meetings over the course of the year. Humanities Dialogues consists of biweekly meetings, in which participants discuss a word and the different meanings associated with it. The program was created…
Read MoreCongratulations to Dr. Yasemin Yildiz of UCLA, the recipient of the 2016 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies for her outstanding academic work in the Humanities. Yasemin Yildiz is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at UCLA. She grew up in Bremen and began her academic life at the Universität Hamburg,…
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