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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Ramblas & Rivieras 9/5/2026-9/14/2026
Hosted by Professor Aaron A. Burke

Aaron A. Burke is Professor of the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Levant, and the Kershaw Chair of the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a member of UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, serving as its editor-in-chief since 2016. Since 1994, he has excavated in Israel but also Egypt and Turkey, and travelled extensively throughout the Levant from Syria to Lebanon, Jordan, Cyprus, and in Greece, collaborating in field research at Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Tel Dan. Burke’s research focuses on the social history of the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze and Iron Ages with a particular interest in identity transformations surrounding warfare, forced migration, and long-distance exchange. His first monograph, “Walled Up to Heaven”: The Evolution of Middle Bronze Age Fortification Strategies in the Levant, addressed warfare during a period of Amorite political hegemony.

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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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Cherry Blossom Splendor of Japan 4/3/2026-4/15/2026
Hosted by Professor Pat Turner

A former UCLA senior dean and vice provost, Patricia A. Turner is now a research professor in World Arts and Cultures/Dance and African American Studies. As a guest of the Japanese Association of American Studies she has lectured throughout Japan. She has a modest collection of Japanese textiles, with an emphasis on indigo which is employed by both Japanese and African textile workers. Her scholarship focuses on ethnic stereotypes as they surface in folklore and popular culture as well as textile history. The author of five books, her most recent ones are Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters and Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century.

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 fifth trip to the Nordic/Baltic region with UCLA Alumni Travel.

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