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Does 'Fair Trade' Help Those Who Harvest Tea?
As part of the International Human Rights Film Series, the Asia Institute put on a screening and discussion of an award-winning 2008 documentary, "The Bitter Taste of Tea," that takes a skeptical view of the fair trade movement's ability to protect laborers within this global industry. Listen to scholars, fair trade advocates and audience members delve into the issues in this audio podcast.
Posted: 1/27/2010
UCLA History Professor Witnesses Devastation, Says Rural Haiti in Peril
History professor Lauren Robin Derby has returned from the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where rural villages are feeling the trauma of the Jan. 12 earthquake. "None of the medical aid is getting to them," she says.
Posted: 1/27/2010
Legacies of Constitutional Engineering in Thailand
Allen Hicken of the University of Michigan traces some of today's political unrest and polarization in Thailand to the effects, intended and otherwise, of political reforms.
Posted: 1/26/2010
Between Palestine and the Rand: Settler colonialism, labor and state violence.
A lecture by Zachary Lockman, New York University
Posted: 1/25/2010
Capitalist bi-nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A lecture by Gershon Shafir, UCSD
Posted: 1/25/2010
Creating Nostalgia: European Womens Writing in Colonial Algeria.
A lecture by Patricia Lorcin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Posted: 1/25/2010
Indigenous institution building and 20th century US Indian policy
A lecture by Duane Champagne, UCLA
Posted: 1/25/2010
Settler colonialism past and presenta commentary
A commentary by Joel Beinin, Stanford
Posted: 1/25/2010
Terra Nullius: Its past and some thoughts on today
A lecture by Carole Pateman, UCLA
Posted: 1/25/2010
The literature of settler societies: Camus, S. Yizhar and Amos Oz.
A lecture by Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
Posted: 1/25/2010
The settlers ongoing contract: Assimilation and removal in the post-frontier era.
A lecture by Patrick Wolfe, La Trobe University, Australia
Posted: 1/25/2010
UCLA Hosts 1st Conference on Afghan Literature
"Afghanistan in Ink: Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile" focused on works written or recorded in the tumult of the past three decades. Audio podcasts of conference presentations are now available.
Posted: 1/21/2010
Campus Community Scrambles to Respond to Crisis in Haiti
Empathy for the people's suffering after a massive earthquake in Haiti has energized students, staff and faculty to raise awareness, raise funds and in some cases to travel to the devastated country.
Posted: 1/15/2010
Haiti Badly Shaken by 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake
Port-au-Prince is devastated by a disaster aggravated by weak infrastructure. UCLA students and faculty members familiar with the country put the tragedy in context in this Daily Bruin article.
Posted: 1/15/2010
Talk This Way
Indiana University's William Fierman gives a tour of language in post-Soviet Central Asia, describing how individual governments have responded to an altered political landscape in part by trying to control written and spoken usage.
Posted: 1/14/2010
Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East
A lecture by Dawn Chatty, Oxford University on January 12, 2010.
Posted: 1/13/2010
Global Buddies Connects Travelers with Families Across Oceans
Established by UCLA's Global Center for Children and Families in 2006, the program aims to build lasting ties between Americans and families in developing countries.
Posted: 1/8/2010
Scholar Intrigued by How Societies Treat Their Elderly
The idea that it's human nature for parents to make sacrifices for their children and, in turn, for grown children to sacrifice for their aging parents--turns out to be a "naive expectation," the UCLA geographer and bestselling author Jared Diamond said in a recent lecture.
Posted: 1/7/2010
Zen and the Beholder
Shoji Yamada, professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, takes a closer look at Japan, Zen and the West.
Posted: 12/16/2009
East Meets West in Scholar John Duncan
Director of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and a leading light on pre-modern Korea, Duncan has lived comfortably in two cultures since the late 1960s. Duncan is receiving the Korea Foundation Award in Seoul for a lifetime of contributions to Korean studies worldwide.
Posted: 12/15/2009
Arabs, Turks, and Europeans in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Podcast of a lecture by Professor Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota on November 12, 2009.
Posted: 12/10/2009
Ottoman Legacies Then and Now
Podcast of a lecture by Donald Quataert, State University of New York on October 8, 2009.
Posted: 12/10/2009
Jews from Libya: Cross-currents and Concretizations of Identity in Israel Today
A lecture by Professor Harvey E. Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Posted: 12/9/2009
The Invention of the Jewish People
A lecture by Shlomo Sand, Tel Aviv University on October 12, 2009.
Posted: 12/9/2009
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