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Mahmoud and his Fathers: Classicism, Colonialism, and Modernity in the Work of Mahmoud Darwish
A lecture by Tamim Al-Barghouti, Georgetown University
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
Tradition and Engagement: The Language of Exile in Mahmoud Darwishs Poetry
A lecture by Terri DeYoung, University of Washington
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
Afghan Discourses of Occupation Today: Oral and Literary Proverbs and Aphorisms in Uncertain Times
A Lecture by Margaret Mills, Ohio State University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference.
Posted: 1/20/2010
The Temporality of Selfhood: Azhdaha-i Khudi as an Allegory of History
A lecture by Wali Ahmadi, UC Berkeley, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Intimate Realism: Recording the Experience of Exile in Second-Generation Refugee Poetry in Iran
A lecture by Zuzanna Olszewska, St. Johns College, Oxford University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Nation, War and Exile as Portrayed in Afghan Diasporic Fiction: The Case of Muhammad Asef Soltanzadeh
A lecture by Dr. Mir Hekmatullah Sadat, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Solitude, Diaspora, and Narration: Epic Memory in Afghan and Afghan-American Literature
A lecture by Shafiq Shamel, Stanford University, part of the Afghanistan in Ink Conference
Posted: 1/20/2010
Turning on the Taliban: Radical fiction from the Sewing Circles of Herat
A lecture by Nushin Arbabzadah, UCLA, part of the Afghanistan in Ink conference.
Posted: 1/20/2010
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
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
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
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
Forum for Africa Scholarship, Opinion, Expression in 2nd Life Online
Since 1970 "Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies" has given marginalized voices on Africa, the African diaspora and related social issues a space to address general readers and scholars alike. Formerly in print, the peer-reviewed journal has two new issues available online and free of charge.
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
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