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Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar

A book talk with author Stephen Bittner (Sonoma State University, History).

Friday, May 7, 2021

Podcast: Permafrost and Transformations of Siberia
Monday, October 22, 2018

Podcast:Recent Excavations of Sanjar-Shah (Northern Tajikistan) and the New Sources for the Study of the Sogdian Culture (5th–8th centuries CE)
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Podcast: How Nizami Ganjavi became an Azerbaijani National Poet: Knowledge, Power and Persian Poetry in the 1930s Soviet Union

Central Asia in Transition Lecture by Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford

Monday, May 1, 2017

Podcast: The Afghan Shia Revolution

Afghan Studies Lecture by Robert Crews, Stanford University

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Podcast: Performing Pamiri Identity in Central Asia
Monday, November 7, 2016

Podcast: The Economic Role of the Jewish Community in Afghanistan (1880-1950)
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

What Did the Ottomans Read? Books and Readers in the Ottoman Literary World, 1300-1600

A lecture by Murat Umut Inan (Social Sciences University of Ankara)

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Integrating Local Knowledge with Ecosystem Science to Understand the Causes and Consequences of Environmental Change in Tibet
Friday, February 26, 2016

Podcast: Knowledge of and Vulnerability to Climate Change among Pastoralists in Central Tibet
Friday, February 12, 2016

Fluent in One Language, Literate in Another: New Approaches to Multilingual Persian Vocabularies

Frontiers of Persian Learning Lecture by Walter Hakala

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Podcast: Where's the Evidence for Selection? Climate Change and Human Colonization of the Northern Tibetan Plateau

Climate Change in Central Asia Series lecture by Jeffrey Brantingham

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Podcast: Assessing the 2014 Power-Sharing Arrangements in Afghanistan

Afghan Studies lecture by Bojan Petrovic

Monday, November 2, 2015

Podcast: Demarcating Persianate Worlds: The Persian Tazkirah, 1700–1900

Frontiers of Persian Learning Series lecture by Kevin Schwartz

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Podcast: Eurasian Imperial Interactions

Eurasian Empires Lecture with Stephane Dudoignon, EHESS, Paris

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

PODCAST: Parsing Counterinsurgency: American Military Policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, 1979-2011

Afghan Studies Lecture by Mesrob George Vartavarian, USC

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Podcast: Rethinking History in Chinese Central Asia

Eurasian Empires Lecture by Rian Thum, Dept. of History, Loyola University, New Orleans

Monday, April 13, 2015

Podcast: Islamic Practices and Institutions among Inner Asian Nomads: A Need for Reevaluation

Eurasian Empires Lecture by Allen Frank, Independent Scholar

Monday, March 16, 2015

PODCAST: Oasis Capitalism: Muslim Notables and the Qing Empire in Chinese Central Asia, 1759-1864

Eurasian Empires Lecture by Kwangmin Kim, Dept. of History, University of Colorado, Boulder

Friday, January 16, 2015

PODCAST: From Sufis to Taliban: Trajectories of Islam in Afghanistan

Welcome and Opening Remarks from Nile Green, Director, Program on Central Asia

Thursday, November 13, 2014

PODCAST: The Caliphate and Afghanistan: Embedding Islam in Afghan Society

A lecture by Arezou Azad (University of Oxford and University of Birmingham). Part of the conference "From Sufis to Taliban: Trajectories of Islam in Afghanistan."

Thursday, November 13, 2014

PODCAST: A Long History of the Talib-ilm/Taliban along the Afghan Frontier

A lecture by Benjamin Hopkins (George Washington University). Part of the conference "From Sufis to Taliban: Trajectories of Islam in Afghanistan."

Thursday, November 13, 2014

PODCAST: The Taliban and Women's Agency in the Works of Two Female Afghanistani Writers, Homaira Qaderi and Masuda Khazan

A lecture by Faridullah Bezhan (Monash University). Part of the conference "From Sufis to Taliban: Trajectories of Islam in Afghanistan."

Thursday, November 13, 2014

PODCAST: Afghanistan's “Traditional” Islam in Transition: Deep Roots of the Shift to Radicalism

A lecture by Bashir Ansari (Southern Methodist University). Part of the conference "From Sufis to Taliban: Trajectories of Islam in Afghanistan."

Thursday, November 13, 2014

PODCAST: The Construction of a Shi'i Identity since the 1970s in Afghanistan/Pakistan: An Ethnicization of Shi'ism?

A lecture by Mariam Abou Zahab (INALCO, Paris). Part of the conference "From Sufis to Taliban: Trajectories of Islam in Afghanistan."

Thursday, November 13, 2014

PODCAST: Women and the Taliban: Histories of Feminism in Afghanistan

A lecture by Sonia Ahsan (Columbia University). Part of the conference "From Sufis to Taliban: Trajectories of Islam in Afghanistan."

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Podcast: The Qing Empire and Inland Eurasia: The Search For Perspective

Eurasian Empires Lecture by Matthew Mosca, College of William and Mary

Friday, October 10, 2014

Podcast: Central Asia Today: Empire and Reimaging the Past

Eurasian Empires Seminar Series Lecture by Martha Brill Olcott, Carnegie Endowment

Monday, July 14, 2014

Podcast: Talab, Rihla, Ghaza: How Central Asian Sufis Rediscovered India and China

Eurasian Empires Seminar Series Lecture by Alexandre Papas, CNRS, Paris

Monday, April 14, 2014

Podcast: Xinjiang in Central Asian and World History

Eurasian Empires Seminar Series Lecture by James Millward, Georgetown University

Monday, February 3, 2014

Podcast: The Ottoman Garden of Eight Paradises: Idris Bitlisi's Persian History

Eurasian Empires Seminar Series Lecture by Ali Anooshahr, UC Davis

Monday, November 25, 2013

Podcast: Looking Inland: From the Coast to the Steppe in Eurasian History

Eurasian Empires Series Inaugural Forum

Friday, November 15, 2013

Pre-Modern Afghanistan: Who Are These People?

A lecture by Nile Green, UCLA. Part of the "Afghanistan" Summer 2013 Teacher Institute.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Contested Central Asia: Alexander to the Great Game

A lecture by Touraj Daryaee, UC Irvine. Part of the "Afghanistan" Summer 2013 Teacher Institute.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Contested Again: Afghanistan since 1979

A lecture by Nushin Arbabzadeh, UCLA. Part of the "Afghanistan" Summer 2013 Teacher Institute.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Emergence of the Modern Afghan State

A lecture by Nile Green, UCLA. Part of the "Afghanistan" Summer 2013 Teacher Institute.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The Mongols and the New World History

Opening Remarks by Sebouh Aslanian, Assistant Professor & Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."

Monday, March 11, 2013

No One Knew Who They Were: Russian Interaction with the Mongols

A lecture by Charles Halperin, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."

Monday, March 11, 2013

Mongol Caucasia: Regional Historiographies and Social Change in an Integrating Eurasian World

A lecture by Steve Rapp, Sam Houston State University. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."

Monday, March 11, 2013

The changing role of women in Cilician Armenian court as a result of interacting with the Mongols

A lecture by Zara Pogossian, Bochum University/John Cabot College (Rome). Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."

Monday, March 11, 2013

From Ad Hoc to Ongoing: The Mongol Invasions and the Institutionalization of Authority in Japan

A lecture by Thomas Conlan, Bowdoin College. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."

Monday, March 11, 2013

Reception and (Mis)representation: Mongol Influences on China from the Perspective of Law and Gender

A lecture by Bettine Birge, USC. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."

Monday, March 11, 2013

The Mongol Contribution to Eurasian History

Keynote lecture by Morris Rossabi, Distinguished Professor of History, Queens College, CUNY. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."

Monday, March 11, 2013

The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History

Opening Remarks by Nile Green, Professor & Director of the Program on Central Asia. Presented at the one-day conference "The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History."

Friday, March 8, 2013

Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World

Welcome and introductory remarks by Nile Green, UCLA. From the conference "Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World"

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Oxus: Bamiyan, Afghanistan and the World

Keynote Lecture by Llewelyn Morgan, Brasenose College, Oxford. Part of the conference "Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Archaeology and political rivalries 1920-1940: From Afghanistan to Iran

A lecture by Ali Mousavi, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Part of the conference "Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Afghanistan's Palimpsest Landscape: Buddhism and Islam in Material Culture

A lecture by Alka Patel, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UC Irvine. Part of the conference "Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Archaeology in Danger: How to Deal with Archaeology in the Post-Conflict Context of Today's Afghanistan?

A lecture by Phillipe Marquis, Director, Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan (DAFA), Kabul. From the conference "Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World

Concluding remarks from Monica Smith, UCLA. Part of the conference " Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."

Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Lasting Legacy of the Great Game: ‘Pashtunistan' Through Afghan Lenses

A talk by Amin Tarzi, Marine Corps University, Quantico. Part of the conference: Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes

Monday, December 5, 2011

Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes: Opening Remarks

An introduction by Nile Green, UCLA. Part of the conference: Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Afghan Historiography in the Twentieth Century

A talk by Senzil Nawid, University of Arizona. Part of the conference: Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Reclaiming the Past: The Tawarikh-i Hafiz Rahmat Khani and Pashtun Historiography

A talk by Robert Nichols, Richard Stockton College, NJ. Part of the conference: Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

South Asian Entrepreneurs in Uzbekistan: The Silk Road Reborn?

Podcast of a talk with Karen Leonard, UC Irvine

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Podcast: Entwinements of Islam and Modernity in Central Asia

John Schoeberlein, Harvard University

Monday, April 11, 2011

Podcast: Archaeological Excavations in Mongolia: Current Research

A Program on Central Asia panel presentation featuring lectures by Jan Bemmann and Ursula Brosseder of Bonn University

Monday, April 11, 2011

China-Central Asia Relations and the Role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

In this talk, Pan Guang will give an overview of 18 years of China-Central Asia relations (1992-2010) and discuss the role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization over ten years. He will conclude with some perspectives on what China can do in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan-Pakistan (AF/PAK).

Friday, February 11, 2011

The Roads to Oxiana: The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia (Panel I)

Central Asia Initiative International Conference (Panel I)

Monday, November 15, 2010

The Roads to Oxiana: The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia (Panel II)

Central Asia Initiative International Conference (Panel II)

Monday, November 15, 2010

Crossing the Roof of the World, Panel 1

Podcast from Panel One of the Conference held February 19, 2010

Monday, March 1, 2010

Crossing the Roof of the World, Panel 2

Podcast of "Crossing the Roof of the World" Conference, Panel 2

Friday, February 19, 2010

Prehistoric Civilizations Around the Silk Road: The Evidence from the Tocharian Languages

A Central Asia Initiative lecture by Melanie Malzahn, University of Vienna and Visiting Professor, UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies

Monday, November 23, 2009

Changing Religious Landscapes: Why Some Muslims Convert to Christianity-The Case of Central Asia

A Central Asia Initiative Lecture by Olivier Roy

Friday, June 5, 2009

Islam in the New Afghan Public Sphere

Podcast of a public lecture by Nushin Arbabzadah, UCLA held on Thursday, January 22, 2009.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Oil, Gas, and Environment in the Caspian

A panel discussion

Friday, February 6, 2009

Afghanistan after the Taliban: Podcast

Podcast of November 17, 2008 Central Asia Initiative Panel Presentation

Monday, November 17, 2008

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