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UCLA Alumni Association

UCLA Alumni Association and Go Next are pleased to offer exceptional travel opportunities available to you, your family, and your friends. Join fellow alumni and experience the camaraderie of exploring the world with like-minded travelers. Each Go Next trip has been thoughtfully selected with you and your alma mater in mind. We take care of the details, so you can relax and enjoy the company of your fellow alumni.

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Fall Tableau of Canada & New England 9/24/2025-10/5/2025
Hosted by Professor Sara E. Melzer

Professor Sara E. Melzer, a faculty member for over 35 years, specialized in early modern France, having published four books and multiple articles on this period. Most recently, she has focused France’s colonial relationship with Canada, studying the reciprocal dynamic between colonizer and colonized. Her latest book centered on a “hidden” history in which the French church and state promoted interracial marriages between American Indians and the French. Although this history was “hidden” in France, it was well-known in Canada. She explores how this colonial policy impacted both France and Canada. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the UCLA Academic Senate. She has traveled widely in France and Canada.

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Indonesian & Malaysian Joy 1/11/2026-1/25/2026
Hosted by Professor Robert Buswell

Robert Buswell is Distinguished Research Professor and Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities, Emeritus, at UCLA, where he taught for thirty-seven years before retiring in 2022. He was the founding director of UCLA’s Center for Buddhist Studies and served for nine years as chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Buswell was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand and lived as a monk in Asia for seven years before returning to academe. He has published extensively on Buddhism, including the 1.2 million word Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism and the two-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Buddhism. His most recent book, Numinous Awareness is Never Dark, explores the issue of whether enlightenment in Buddhism is a product of a gradual process of meditative development or a sudden burst of insight. (Spoiler alert: it’s both.) Buswell has also served as president of the Association for Asian Studies, the largest such professional organization in the world with over 7,000 members. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.

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Regal Baltic Shores 7/20/2026-7/30/2026
Hosted by Professor Arne Lunde

Arne Lunde is Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages And Transcultural Studies. His research and teaching focus on Nordic, European and Hollywood cinema, as well as on Scandinavian literature and visual culture. He is currently working on a book on film director Ingmar Bergman’s early career working inside the Swedish studio system in the 1940s and 1950s. Other research interests include European exiles and emigres in classic Hollywood and Los Angeles, film noir, and transcultural cinemas of elsewhere. Lunde has taught at UCLA since 2007 and this will his sixth trip to the Nordic/Baltic region with UCLA Alumni Travel.

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travel@alumni.ucla.edu

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Lower Mississippi River

Date: May 9-17, 2025

Starting Price: $5,900

Trip Length: 8 nights

Trip: New Orleans, Louisiana to Memphis, Tennessee

Cruise line: American Cruise Lines | American Melody

Cruise the Mighty Mississippi on this 8-night journey aboard American Cruise Lines’ American Melody, with an included 1-night pre-cruise hotel stay in New Orleans.

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