The Institute and our affiliated centers and programs record selected lectures and make them available to the public. To date we have published 821 podcasts.
The Particularities of Our Culture [Ekhtesasat-e Farhangie ma]
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Morteza Mardiha, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (lecture in Persian)
Duration: 1:09:59
Posted: 11/7/2012
Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A book talk with author Maite Zubiaurre (UCLA, Spanish and Portuguese), and discussant Roberta Johnson (University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese).
Duration: 1:06:27
Posted: 11/2/2012
Like a Straw Bird it Follows Me
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Renowned Palestian poet Ghassan Zaqtan and translator Fady Joudah visit UCLA for a poetry reading on October 25th, 2012.
Duration: 37:38
Posted: 10/29/2012
In The Name of Iran (in Persian)
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A book reading by Parastou Forouhar, Artist and Author
Duration: 54:35
Posted: 9/19/2012
A Conversation with Acclaimed Israeli-Arab Writer Sayed Kashua
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
Arab-Israeli author speaks at UCLA.
Duration: 1:20:02
Posted: 6/25/2012
New Perspectives on Chinese Archaeology
Center for Chinese Studies
Keynote address by Professor Li LIU on “Archaeology under a Microscope”
Duration: 1:12:38
Posted: 5/25/2012
How to Turn Philosophical Ideas into Diagrams: Chinese Approaches and Insights
Center for Chinese Studies
A public lecture by Dr. Michael Lackner. The presentation will shed some light on possible precedents of this new form of diagrams and give an introduction into the multi-faceted functioning of diagrams on the basis of selected material.
Duration: 1:38:37
Posted: 5/24/2012
Complex Compatriots: Jews in Post-Vichy Algeria
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Sung Choi, UCLA
Duration: 00:44:50
Posted: 5/21/2012
Urban Renewal and its Discontents: IBA 1984/87
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Esra Akcan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Duration: 01:01:57
Posted: 5/21/2012
Writing Sex, Food, and Politics
Center for Chinese Studies
LI Ang (李昂), a prominent Taiwanese writer, investigates gender and politics in social life and literary creation, opening up new spaces of critical reflection on the question of women in literary writing.
Duration: 16:07
Posted: 5/11/2012
Beautiful Resistance: Defying the Occupation Through the Theater and the Arts
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Talk by Abdelfattah Abusrour, Al-Rowwad Cultural & Theatre Center
Duration: 00:26:58
Posted: 5/9/2012
Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A book talk with author Carol Silverman, University of Oregon, Anthropology. Discussant: Timothy Rice, UCLA, Ethnomusicology/Herb Alpert School of Music.
Duration: 1:09:59
Posted: 5/4/2012
Media Hope and African Capacity
African Studies Center
A lecture by Farah Chaudhry and Chip Duncan
Duration: 1:11:14
Posted: 5/1/2012
Mamadou Diouf delivers the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: Islam and the Making of the Public Space
African Studies Center
Mamadou Diouf is Leitner Family Professor of African Studies. He leads Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs.
Duration: 1:12:08
Posted: 4/27/2012
Putin's Russia : What is in the Cards?
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A public lecture by Yevgenia Albats, Editor-in-Chief, The New Times (Novoye Vremya).
Duration: 58:56
Posted: 4/27/2012
The Internet and Social Mobilization in China
Center for Chinese Studies
A public lecture by Professor Yong HU on how the Internet helps build links and facilitates collective action in China.
Duration: 1:08
Posted: 4/26/2012
The Emerging Cultural and Creative Industries in the Greater China Economy: The Cross-strait Co-opetitive Strategy
Center for Chinese Studies
Professor DONG, is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UCLA and UCSD. He specializes in digital content and cultural & creative industries, industrial research of motion pictures, innovation & entrepreneurship and investment, intellectual property and Asia-Pacific business strategies.
Duration: 39:35
Posted: 4/26/2012
The Modern Recovery of the Ismaili Legacy and Its Importance for the Study of the Fatimids
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Paul Walker, University of Chicago
Duration: 00:47:58
Posted: 4/23/2012
How much Arabic is in my poems: A Poetry reading interspersed by an essay on poetics and politics
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Poet Maged Zaher
Duration: 01:01:52
Posted: 4/23/2012
A Night with Abbas Maroufi (in Persian)
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A talk and reading by Abbas Maroufi, author of The Symphony of the Dead
Duration: 1:07:33
Posted: 4/23/2012
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