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 Ismailis and the Qur'an: Is there an Ismaili Ta'wil?
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Dr. Omar Ali-de-Unzaga, Research Associate, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Part of the conference "Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders."
Duration: 41:35
Posted: 5/29/2013
Ismailis and Philosophy: A Critical Rationalist Perspective
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Dr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor, Reseach Associate, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Part of the conference "Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders."
Duration: 40:24
Posted: 5/29/2013
Closing Remarks - Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Closing remarks by Professor Ismail Poonawala, UCLA.
Duration: 30:58
Posted: 5/29/2013
Al-Rihla al-Ismailiyya: Reflections on Ismailis in Ismaili Studies
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Dr. Sumaiya Hamdani, Associate Professor, History and Art History Dept., George Mason University. Part of the conference "Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders."
Duration: 29:45
Posted: 5/29/2013
Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Waïl S. Hassan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Duration: 57:23
Posted: 5/28/2013
Mostafa Sho‘aiyan: The Forgotten Revolutionary and the Possibility of Unified Action
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture in Persian by Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria
Duration: 45:20
Posted: 5/21/2013
Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Michael Cooperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
Duration: 42:57
Posted: 5/17/2013
Singing, Chanting, and Chatter: Street Sounds and Songs of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University
Duration: 36:57
Posted: 5/16/2013
Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Murat Cankara, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Introductory remarks by Sebouh Aslanian. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
Duration: 59:42
Posted: 5/8/2013
Dispensing Justice on Screen: Stanley Kramer's "Judgment at Nuremberg"
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A public lecture by Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich, English and American Studies.
Duration: 1:03:30
Posted: 3/7/2013
A Night of Poetry with Renowned Iranian Poet: Houshang Ebtehaj (Sayeh)
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A reading in Persian by Houshang Ebtehaj (Sayeh) on Sunday, December 09, 2012
Duration: 1:18:05
Posted: 12/17/2012
Michael Heim Memorial Celebration
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Memorial in honor of Michael Henry Heim (1943-2012), renowned translator and Distinguished Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at UCLA.
Duration: 1:52:42
Posted: 12/12/2012
Myths in Bahram Beyzaie's Works
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture in Persian by Bahram Beyzaie, film/theater Director, screen/play writer, researcher
Duration: 41:27
Posted: 12/3/2012
The Impact of the I Ching on Merce Cunningham and Deborah Hay
Center for Chinese Studies
The I Ching, or the Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese text––perhaps the first written document in human history––and was originally used exclusively as an oracle. Three thousand years old, the I Ching is one of the most revered books in Chinese literature, and it has inspired the most eminent Chinese scholars throughout history.
Duration: 1:20:19
Posted: 11/16/2012
Oxus: Bamiyan, Afghanistan and the World
Program on Central Asia
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."
Duration: 46:47
Posted: 11/15/2012
Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Program on Central Asia
Concluding remarks from Monica Smith, UCLA. Part of the conference " Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."
Duration: 12:00
Posted: 11/15/2012
Archaeology in Danger: How to Deal with Archaeology in the Post-Conflict Context of Today's Afghanistan?
Program on Central Asia
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."
Duration: 36:29
Posted: 11/15/2012
Afghanistan’s Palimpsest Landscape: Buddhism and Islam in Material Culture
Program on Central Asia
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."
Duration: 22:19
Posted: 11/15/2012
Archaeology and political rivalries 1920-1940: From Afghanistan to Iran
Program on Central Asia
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."
Duration: 23:50
Posted: 11/15/2012
Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Program on Central Asia
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"
Duration: 19:28
Posted: 11/15/2012
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