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The Institute and our affiliated centers and programs record selected lectures and make them available to the public. To date we have published 301 podcasts.

Shaping Islam to France (and Vice-Versa)
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A public lecture by John Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis.

PODCAST-Former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo: "Global Financial Crisis and the Fight Against Poverty"
Latin American Institute
Former President of Peru, founder and President, Global Center for Development and Democracy, and Distinguished University Fellow, Stanford University speaks on Global Financial Crisis and the Fight Against Poverty.
Duration: 37:36

Cartographies of Islam in the Americas: Migrants, Converts and Devotion
Latin American Institute
Introduction by Professor Randal Johnson, Director of the Latin American Institute, April 3, 2009
Duration: 4:06

How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
Burkle Center for International Relations
Dr. Reza Aslan, internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions
Duration: 58:02

Authoritarian Pathways: Trajectories of State Building in the Arab World
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Lecture by Steven Heydemann, US Institute of Peace
Duration: 40:31

Foucault and Middle East Studies - Introduction
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Introduction by conference organizer, Professor James Gelvin, UCLA
Duration: 5:54

Foucault and Middle East Studies - The Virtues of Recalcitrance: Democracy from Foucault to Latour
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Keynote Address by Professor Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University
Duration: 54:45

Foucault and Middle East Studies - Foucault and the Historiography of Nationalism in the Arab Middle East
Center for Near Eastern Studies
James L. Gelvin, UCLA
Duration: 33:05

Foucault and Middle East Studies - Population, governmentality and social medicine: some questions from 19th- century Egypt
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Khaled Fahmy, NYU
Duration: 44:02

Foucault and Middle East Studies - Discussion
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Michael Meranze, UCLA
Duration: 27:04

The Hispanic as Crypto-Moor
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Anouar Majid, University of New England
Duration: 30:50

The EU Cohesion Program
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A public lecture by MICHAEL STORPER, UCLA, Urban Planning
Duration: 55:52

Oil, Gas, and Environment in the Caspian
Central Asia Initiative
A panel discussion
Duration: 54:23

Globalization: A Blessing or A Curse? (Arnold C. Harberger Lecture)
Burkle Center for International Relations
Kantathi Suphamongkhon, 39th Foreign Minister of Thailand, UC Regents Professor, Burkle Center Senior Fellow and this year's presenter of the Annual Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development.
Duration: 30:00

Hypermedia Berlin and the Geo-Temporal Web
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A CEES faculty lecture by TODD PRESNER, UCLA Germanic Languages
Duration: 36:39

The Gifts of the Tibetans: Sparking New Directions in the Arts and Sciences
Center for Buddhist Studies
In the last of three events aimed at establishing a UCLA endowed chair in Tibetan Buddhist studies, Columbia University's Robert Thurman says that Tibetan perspectives are, or at least ought to be, very much at home in the university. Listen to a podcast of his talk.
Duration: 56:27

Climate Change: Globalization of Environmental Impacts and Solutions
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A presentation by SASSAN SAATCHI, Institute of the Environment, UCLA, at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Duration: 31:09

Promises in AIDS Fight Not Met
UCLA International Institute
Focusing on Africa, former UN envoy Stephen Lewis expresses amazement at the passivity of the international community as the HIV/AIDS epidemic traumatizes women, creates orphans, and continues on its decades-long path of devastation. Listen to a Podcast of his speech.
Duration: 41:44

Roots of Epidemic Still Go Unaddressed
UCLA International Institute
Debrework Zewdie, the director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program at the World Bank, argues that efforts to fight the pandemic will come up short as long as "fundamental drivers" such as poverty, gender inequality, and the marginalization of high-risk groups are not dealt with. Listen to a Podcast of her speech.
Duration: 23:25

Robert Brenner on the Long Downturn
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Robert Brenner, a UCLA professor of history and author of, most recently, "The Economics of Global Turbulence," shares his long- and short-run analyses of the post-WWII world economy.
Duration: 1:01:27