Podcasts

• PODCAST – Narcocorridos: Origins and Development of Drug-trafficking Ballads
  Presentation by Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta, professor of Spanish at San Diego State University during the teacher workshop "Ballads without Borders: The Mexican Corrido Past and Present."
  Posted: 4/23/2013
• PODCAST- At the Crossroads: Medicine and Culture in Latin America
  Listen to presentations by anthropologists and clinicians on health and culture in Latin America.
  Posted: 4/1/2013
• PODCAST- Encuentro con Carla Guelfenbein: Una chilena en la republica mundial de la novela
  Listen to a presentation by novelist Carla Guelfenbein
  Posted: 2/1/2013
• PODCAST- Reading and Q&A with Granta’s best young Brazilian novelists
  Listen to a reading and discussion with 5 of Brazil's best young novelists
  Posted: 12/3/2012
• The Eurozone Crisis and Lessons from Latin America
  Faculty lecture by Aaron Tornell, UCLA, Economics.
  Posted: 11/30/2012
• PODCAST- 520 Years of Dictatorship: Survival, Struggle and Militancy of the Mapuche People
  Listen to presentation by poet and political activist Graciela Huinao
  Posted: 11/1/2012
• Religious and Ceremonial Art in the Caribbean
  Lecture by Dr. Ysamur Flores-Peña, Otis College
  Posted: 8/18/2011
• Garifuna Identities and Politicas in Contemporary Honduras
  Lecture by Dr. Mark Anderson, UCSC
  Posted: 8/15/2011
• Dance Practices of Latin America: Salsa as Social Resistance
  Lecture by Ana Maria Alvarez, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
  Posted: 8/15/2011
• The Atlantic Slave Trade in Global Context
  Lecture by Dr. Emily Musil Church presented on the 2011 Summer K-12 Workshop.
  Posted: 8/14/2011
• Fugitive Acts and Fragile Freedoms
  Lecture by Dr. Rachel O'Toole, UCI Department of History
  Posted: 8/14/2011
• African Catholics and Christian Subjects
  Lecture by Dr. Rachel O'Toole, UCI presented on the 2011 Summer K-12 Workshop.
  Posted: 8/14/2011
• Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico
  A lecture by Natasha Iskander, New York University
  Posted: 5/10/2011
• Argentina: Economic and Cultural Background
  A podcast with Dr. Ricardo Lopez Murphy.
  Posted: 5/7/2010
• A Night of Arab and Brazilian Music
  A concert featuring A.J. Racy, Samba Society, and Special Guests
  Posted: 4/5/2010
• Argentine Political Scientist on Leader He Served as Culture Minister
  Torcuato Di Tella, an emeritus professor at the University of Buenos Aires and former Argentine Minister of Culture, lectured on Feb. 23 at UCLA.
  Posted: 2/24/2010
• The State of US-Venezuela Relations
  Remarks by his Excellency Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States.
  Posted: 10/8/2009
• Through Food, Teachers Take Lessons in World Cultures at UCLA
  Celebrating 30 years of teacher training programs on campus, the UCLA International Institute this summer dedicated a 10-day workshop to the theme of food in world history and world cultures.
  Posted: 9/28/2009
• A Forgotten Presence: Muslim Migrants in early 20th Century South America
  Mara del Mar Logroo Carbona, Assistant Professor, History Department, Florida State University
  Posted: 6/4/2009
• PODCAST-Former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo: "Global Financial Crisis and the Fight Against Poverty"
  Former President of Peru, founder and President, Global Center for Development and Democracy, and Distinguished University Fellow, Stanford University speaks on Global Financial Crisis and the Fight Against Poverty.
  Posted: 6/4/2009
• Cartographies of Islam in the Americas: Migrants, Converts and Devotion
  Introduction by Professor Randal Johnson, Director of the Latin American Institute, April 3, 2009
  Posted: 6/4/2009
• The Hispanic as Crypto-Moor
  A lecture by Anouar Majid, University of New England
  Posted: 4/14/2009
• Promises in AIDS Fight Not Met
  Focusing on Africa, former UN envoy Stephen Lewis expresses amazement at the passivity of the international community as the HIV/AIDS epidemic traumatizes women, creates orphans, and continues on its decades-long path of devastation. Listen to a Podcast of his speech.
  Posted: 5/22/2007
• Roots of Epidemic Still Go Unaddressed
  Debrework Zewdie, the director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program at the World Bank, argues that efforts to fight the pandemic will come up short as long as "fundamental drivers" such as poverty, gender inequality, and the marginalization of high-risk groups are not dealt with. Listen to a Podcast of her speech.
  Posted: 5/22/2007
• Joseph Wallach on the Beginnings of TV Globo
  The American pioneer of a powerhouse Brazilian television network tells his story at UCLA.
  Posted: 5/14/2007
• A World of Conflict
  Listen to a UCLAradio story about a documentary screening by Kevin Sites, a pioneering solo journalist for Yahoo! News, on war zones around the world. The event was presented by AsiaMedia, sponsored by the UCLA International Institute, Latin American Center, African Studies Center and Asia Institute.
  Posted: 5/1/2007