Carving the Divine is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a rapidly changing Japan ...

Children of immigrants make up more than one in four people in the United States under the age of thirty. Amid today’s multipronged attacks on immigrant communities and growing threats to democratic ...

Join us for a discussion of current dynamics in immigration enforcement in the border region-- the weaponization of ICE, immigrants' experiences, and key areas of concern for Sacramento and Washington ...

A recent professional development workshop for K–12 educators offered by the Latin American Institute. The UCLA Latin American Institute (LAI), in collaboration with nonprofit Avenue 50 Studio offered ...

These three lectures will explore the intersectional dimensions shaping contemporary socioeconomic injustices in American and South African metropolises. By confronting the socio-racial dimensions of ...

The event is the presentation of the project of the first comprehensive history of Cuban literature in English, edited by Vicky Unruh and Jacqueline Loss. The editors will discuss the reach of this ...

An episode of PBS SoCal’s Emmy Award-winning series Artbound, “Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond” is an insider look at the history and influence of the magazine from its earliest days.

Jonathan Kao is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. His research interests lie at the intersection of neuroscience, neural engineering and artificial intelligence. He is a ...

Hear a historian of medicine discuss his research on the relationship between slavery and ideas of corporeality in early Spanish colonies of the New World. Organized by the department of history at ...

Derek Yee won Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards for this gritty crime thriller set over 36 hours in Hong Kong’s famed Mong Kok neighborhood. Longtime Giant Robot fan and contributor Daniel Wu ...

In waka (classical Japanese poetry) studies, the genre has often been prized for its role as a form of elevated dialogue, with zōtōka (exchanged poetry) receiving the bulk of scholarly attention when ...

The "Longevity Innovation Conference" is an advanced international conference held over three years since last year, supported by LINK-J and the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies. This ...