The Institute and our affiliated centers and programs record selected lectures and make them available to the public. To date we have published 810 podcasts.
The Place of Balkan Muslims in the Shaping of European Islam
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A public lecture by XAVIER BOUGAREL, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series.
Duration: 48:51
Posted: 4/5/2008
Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A book presentation by author ADRIENNE EDGAR, UC Santa Barbara, History.
Duration: 33:16
Posted: 4/4/2008
Off the Radar Screen: The Unacknowledged Struggle to Protect Kosova's Islamic Traditions
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A public lecture by ISA BLUMI, Georgia State University, History. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series.
Duration: 51:28
Posted: 4/3/2008
How the Iranian Constitution Secularized Islam
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A public lecture by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, delivered on March 3, 2008.
Duration: 47:02
Posted: 3/7/2008
Japan's Activist Courts
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
NYU legal scholar Frank Upham, this semester a visiting professor at UCLA, explains why judicial activism is more prevalent in Japan than in the United States. Listen to a podcast of his lecture.
Duration: 54:56
Posted: 3/5/2008
Former Bugandan PM: National Land Policy Needed
Globalization Research Center - Africa
Uganda needs a national land policy that ends legalized seizures of territory, former Bugandan Prime Minister (Katikkiro) Daniel Muliika tells a UCLA audience in this podcast.
Duration: 37:56
Posted: 2/26/2008
Bombing as the American Way of War
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
Mark Selden explains how U.S. bombing raids of Japanese cities in World War II would determine military tactics decades after 'the Good War.' Listen to a podcast of Selden's lecture.
Duration: 48:49
Posted: 2/14/2008
Can People Power Change Kenya?
Globalization Research Center - Africa
Resolving the election crisis of 2007-08 is one thing, argues GRCA Research Associate Stephen Ndegwa, and addressing underlying injustices is quite another. Ndegwa and an engaged UCLA audience debate the likelihood of significant change from below.
Duration: 49:03
Posted: 2/14/2008
Gunter Grass' Peeling the Onion
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A book talk with translator MICHAEL HEIM, UCLA Slavic Languages and Literatures, and discussant HANS WAGENER, UCLA Germanic Languages
Duration: 55:34
Posted: 2/1/2008
Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A public lecture by Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington University, on December 11, 2007 as part of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.
Duration: 49:14
Posted: 12/17/2007
Headscarves and Hotpants: Islam, Secularism and Women's Fashion in Southeastern Europe
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A public lecture by KRISTEN GHODSEE, Bowdoin College, Gender and Women's Studies. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series organized by CEES and CNES.
Duration: 50:15
Posted: 12/10/2007
Stone Records and Parallel Universes: Music and Globalization in Turkey
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A CEES faculty lecture by MUNIR BEKEN, UCLA Ethnomusicology
Duration: 36:18
Posted: 12/10/2007
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A book talk with author MARGARET JACOB, UCLA History, and discussant DAVID HOLLINGER, UC Berkeley History
Duration: 46:46
Posted: 12/10/2007
Austria's Role in Central and Eastern Europe
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A public lecture by PAUL LENDVAI, Austrian Journalist, with an introduction by Ivan Berend, UCLA History.
Duration: 49:03
Posted: 12/10/2007
The Social Bases of Reform and Anti-Reform: A Comparative Study of Ukraine and Russia
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A public lecture by DAVID LANE, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Duration: 31:01
Posted: 12/10/2007
Sheherezada in Exile, or Writing Across the Borders: The Case of Dubravka Ugresic
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
A public lecture by JASMINA LUKIC, Central European University, Budapest, Gender Studies
Duration: 32:05
Posted: 12/10/2007
Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian's Reply to Terrorology
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by James Gelvin, UCLA, delivered at the conference/workshop on Jihadi Islam held at the UCLA Faculty Center on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Duration: 40:48
Posted: 11/27/2007
The Wahhabi Factor in Jihadi Islam
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by David Dean Commins, Dickinson College, delivered at the conference/workshop on Jihadi Islam held at the UCLA Faculty Center on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Duration: 33:37
Posted: 11/27/2007
Jihad in Modern Shi'a Thought
Center for Near Eastern Studies
A lecture by Rola El-Husseini, Texas A and M University, delivered at the conference/workshop on Jihadi Islam held at the UCLA Faculty Center on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
Duration: 23:30
Posted: 11/27/2007
Biwa and the Tale of Heike
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
Yoko Hiraoka recites portions of the Tale of Heike, accompanying herself on the biwa, and discusses the history of the poem and the instrument alike. Listen to a podcast of her performance and talk.
Duration: 1:29:55
Posted: 11/9/2007
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