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Podcasts from public lectures for those interested in learning about the Middle East and its related fields of study.
Podcasts from the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
English, Education, 1 season, 200 episodes, 6 days, 2 hours, 5 minutes
Podcasts from the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
English, Education, 1 season, 200 episodes, 6 days, 2 hours, 5 minutes
The Colonial Dhimmi: Islamic Sovereignty and the Making of the Indigenous Jew in Protectorate Morocco
A lecture by Daniel Schroeter (University of Minnesota)
5/16/2023 • 0
The Long Shadow of Assad's Gulag: Syrian Former Detainees in Europe
Recording of a lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam
11/30/2022 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 24 seconds
Sites of Encounter - Quetzaltenango, Marrakesh, and Dunhuang, 1000-1400 Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 3
Lecture with Diego Loukota (UCLA)
6/30/2022 • 41 minutes, 26 seconds
Sites of Encounter - Quetzaltenango, Marrakesh, and Dunhuang, 1000-1400 Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 2
Lecture with Allen James Fromherz (Georgia State University)
6/29/2022 • 49 minutes
Sites of Encounter - Quetzaltenango, Marrakesh, and Dunhuang, 1000-1400 Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 1
Lecture with Floridalma Boj Lopez (UCLA) and Willy Barreno
6/28/2022 • 47 minutes, 34 seconds
Ben Badis’ Jews: Islamic Reform and Colonial Subjecthood in Interwar Algeria
Averroës Lectures on Jewish Communities in Muslim Lands
Lecture by Joshua Schreier (Vassar College)
5/26/2022 • 43 minutes, 11 seconds
Gender, Communal Boundaries, and Leisure Activities: A New Approach?
Lecture with Murat Yildiz (Skidmore College)
5/17/2022 • 39 minutes, 43 seconds
The Orient Deconstructed: Moulin's Female Portraits in Algeria, 1856-1858
Lecture by Raisa Rexer (Vanderbilt University)
4/28/2022 • 43 minutes, 15 seconds
Idioms of Resistance in the Middle East
A panel discussion with distinguished experts on Syria, Turkish Kurdistan, and indigenous land rights in Israel.
4/13/2022 • 1 hour, 53 minutes, 36 seconds
A Sovereign Local State? The Meaning of the Ottoman Khedivate for the History of Twentieth-Century Egypt
Lecture with Adam Mestyan (Duke University)
3/8/2022 • 41 minutes, 46 seconds
Esther Azhari Moyal: Writer, Feminist, and Jewish Activist in the Ottoman Arab World, 1892-1913
Lecture by Lital Levy (Princeton University)
3/3/2022 • 48 minutes, 32 seconds
Minoritization in Middle Eastern Geopolitics: Histories and Theoretical Approaches
Conference that brings together a host of experts to address the question of minoritization in the MENA region
1/7/2022 • 0
Jews and Education in Modern Iran: Upward Mobility, Integration, and Identity
Lecture with Daniella Farah (Rice University)
11/4/2021 • 39 minutes, 5 seconds
Cairo After Dark
Lecture with Raphael Cormack
10/19/2021 • 36 minutes, 34 seconds
The Making and Unmaking of Borders and the State
10/8/2021 • 2 hours, 22 minutes, 40 seconds
An Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts
An intensive online workshop featuring leading authorities on the study of Arabic manuscripts.
8/27/2021 • 0
Sites of Encounter - Malacca and Ottoman Empire, 1400-1800 Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 2
Lecture with Nina (Ergin) Macaraig
6/18/2021 • 0
Sites of Encounter - Malacca and Ottoman Empire, 1400-1800 Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 1
Lecture with Leonard Andaya (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
6/17/2021 • 0
After Sudan: Hajj Hamad and the Search for the Horn of Africa
A lecture with Alden Young (UCLA)
5/14/2021 • 42 minutes, 15 seconds
Khatibi and His Jews: Constructions of the Figure of the Jew in Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Writings
A lecture with Brahim El Guabli (Williams College)
5/4/2021 • 45 minutes, 19 seconds
Berbers, Blacks, Jews: The Colonial Legacies and Racial Politics of the Amazigh Revival
A lecture with Paul Silverstein (Reed College)
4/29/2021 • 46 minutes, 43 seconds
Caring for the Poor: Islamic Benevolence and the End of Neoliberalism
Lecture with Cihan Tuğal (UC Berkeley)
4/21/2021 • 47 minutes, 5 seconds
Zaydi Adaptations of the Sunni Tradition in Yemen: The Case of Qur'an Commentaries
A lecture with Scott Lucas (University of Arizona)
4/15/2021 • 42 minutes, 59 seconds
Ottoman Legacies in Colonial North Africa (mid-19th century-1920s): Building on Micro-History and Legal Cases
Lecture by M'hamed Oualdi (Sciences Po-Paris)
4/6/2021 • 37 minutes, 59 seconds
The Making of Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces, Part 2A
Panel with Ethel Wolper (University of New Hampshire) and Aomar Boum (UCLA)
3/12/2021 • 0
The Making of Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces, Part 1A
Panel with Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto, Mississauga) and Lamia Balafrej (UCLA)
3/5/2021 • 0
The Making of Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces, Part 1B
Panel with Amy Landau (UCLA) and Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)
3/5/2021 • 0
Book launch: Domenico Ingenito's "Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry" (Brill, 2020)
A conversation with Paul Losensky (Indiana University) and Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia)
1/27/2021 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 41 seconds
Amuletic Archives: Writing Magico-Material Histories of the Middle East
Lecture with Taylor Moore (UC Santa Barbara, History)
1/26/2021 • 42 minutes, 29 seconds
Jews and Legal Belonging in the Modern Mediterranean: The Life and Afterlife of Nissim Shamama (1805-1873)
A lecture by Jessica Marglin (USC)
1/14/2021 • 42 minutes, 12 seconds
Politics and Practices of Resistance in the Middle East
Panel with Haydar Darici (American University), Serra Hakyemez (University of Minnesota), and Melissa Bilal (UCLA)
12/4/2020 • 56 minutes, 46 seconds
A Foe of Injustice and Prejudice: Srpuhi Dussap and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Armenian Feminist Thought
Lecture with Melissa Bilal (UCLA)
11/19/2020 • 33 minutes, 27 seconds
The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography
Lecture with Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
11/16/2020 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 23 seconds
Performance Art, Cultural Memory, and the Uighur Crisis
Lecture with Jessica Batke (China File) and Mukaddas Mijit (Independent Scholar)
11/7/2020 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 21 seconds
Khayri Rida’s Journey: Finding the Syrian State in the French Mandate Period
Lecture with Benjamin Thomas White (University of Glasgow)
10/27/2020 • 32 minutes, 1 second
Race, Religion, and COVID-19: Black Muslims and the National Black Muslim COVID Coalition
Lecture with Dr. Kameelah Mu'min Rashad (Muslim Wellness Foundation)
10/19/2020 • 42 minutes, 28 seconds
Medieval Minorities: The Example of Muslims in the Kingdom of Hungary
Lecture with Nora Berend (University of Cambridge)
10/16/2020 • 40 minutes, 5 seconds
Rethinking the Dhimma System: Comparative Perspectives in Legal History
Lecture with John Tolan (Université de Nantes)
10/11/2020 • 35 minutes, 17 seconds
Forum on Remote Research Possibilities for Graduate Students - Session 4 (UC Library)
Panel with Iman Dagher (Arabic and Islamic Studies Catalog Librarian, UCLA); Heather Hughes, (Subject librarian for Comparative Literature, Global Studies, and Middle East Studies, UC Santa Barbara); and Mohamed Hamed (Middle Eastern and Near Eastern Stud
7/22/2020 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 56 seconds
Sites of Encounter - Southwestern Asia, 300-1200: Baghdad and Nishapur Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 2
Lecture with Michael Cooperson (UCLA)
6/19/2020 • 56 minutes, 28 seconds
Sites of Encounter - Southwestern Asia, 300-1200: Baghdad and Nishapur Teacher Training Workshop: Keynote Lecture Day 1
Lecture with Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Bucknell University)
6/18/2020 • 38 minutes, 7 seconds
Geopolitical Implications of COVID-19 for the Middle East
A panel with Hesham Youssef (United States Institute of Peace), Dalia Dassa Kaye (RAND), and Ehud Eiran (Stanford University); Moderated by Kevan Harris (UCLA) and Dov Waxman (UCLA) on the geostrategic, political, security and economic consequences of the
5/27/2020 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 3 seconds
Forum on Remote Research Possibilities for Graduate Students - Session 2
Panel with Virginia Danielson (NYU Abu Dhabi), Roberta L. Dougherty (Yale University)
5/20/2020 • 43 minutes, 39 seconds
Forum on Remote Research Possibilities for Graduate Students - Session 1
Panel with Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Dale J. Correa (University of Texas at Austin)
5/18/2020 • 1 hour, 4 seconds
The Constantine Murders of 1934: Provocation and Antisemitism in Interwar French Algeria
A book talk by Joshua Cole (University of Michigan)
3/5/2020 • 1 hour, 40 seconds
A Historiographical Gap? Ethnopolitics and the Question of Mass Violence in the 20th Century Middle East
A lecture by Laura Robson (Portland State University)
2/25/2020 • 45 minutes, 33 seconds
Postarabic Poetics: Accent, Affect, and Language Politics in Recent Israeli Culture
A lecture by Lital Levy (Princeton University)
1/28/2020 • 0
Lost Archives, Sacrosanct Wastebins and the Jewish Communities of the Medieval Islamicate World
A lecture by Marina Rustow (Princeton University)
1/21/2020 • 1 hour, 17 minutes
The Future of al-Andalus
A lecture by Eric Calderwood (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
12/3/2019 • 51 minutes, 6 seconds
Recording the Maghrib: Jews, Muslims, and Music in the 20th Century
A lecture by Chris Silver (McGill University)
10/30/2019 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 17 seconds
Ottoman Imperial Echoes in the Post-War Arab East
A lecture by Michael Provence (UC San Diego)
10/22/2019 • 42 minutes, 26 seconds
Public Space in North Africa Today: Through Art Spaces, Cultural Movements and Literary Icons
A lecture by Driss Ksikes (Insitut des Hautes Etudes Management)
10/22/2019 • 50 minutes, 23 seconds
Researching Identity Politics and Development in the Middle East
A lecture by Melani Cammett (Harvard University)
10/3/2019 • 50 minutes, 14 seconds
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Panel 3: Samia Henni (Cornell University)
5/30/2019 • 0
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Panel 2: Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi and Collège de France)
5/30/2019 • 0
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Panel 2: Nicolas Dufetel (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
5/30/2019 • 0
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Panel 3: Ussama Makdisi (Rice University)
5/30/2019 • 0
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Panel 1: Heghnar Watenpaugh (University of California, Davis)
5/30/2019 • 0
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Panel 1: Jerrilyn Dodds (Sarah Lawrence College)
5/30/2019 • 0
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Panel 3: Burçak Özlüdil Altin (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
5/30/2019 • 0
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Keynote: Zeynep Çelik (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
5/30/2019 • 0
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Panel 3: Marc André (Université de Rouen)
5/30/2019 • 0
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Panel 2: Selim Kuru (University of Washington)
5/30/2019 • 0
Conference: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History
Panel 1: Julia Clancy-Smith (University of Arizona)
5/30/2019 • 0
Mahia on the Market: On the History of a Moroccan Jewish Commodity
A lecture by Oren Kosansky (Lewis and Clark University)
5/20/2019 • 49 minutes, 47 seconds
Unmixing the Holy City: Urban Coexistence and Segregation in Early 20th Century Jerusalem
A lecture by Michelle Campos (University of Florida)
4/23/2019 • 49 minutes, 24 seconds
Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World
A lecture by Maha Nassar (University of Arizona)
4/22/2019 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 57 seconds
Humanitarian Predicaments: Protracted Displacement and Palestinian Refugee Politics
A lecture by Ilana Feldman (George Washington University)
4/11/2019 • 54 minutes, 3 seconds
Black Power and Palestine: The 1960s-70s Black Freedom Struggle and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
A lecture by Michael Fischbach (Randolph-Macon College)
4/3/2019 • 39 minutes, 47 seconds
Daily Life in the Abyss: Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918
A lecture by Vahé Tachjian (École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales (EHESS) in Paris)
4/1/2019 • 39 minutes, 33 seconds
We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
A lecture by Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
4/1/2019 • 37 minutes
Racism and White Supremacy in Europe
An international interdisciplinary conference.
3/13/2019 • 6 hours, 8 minutes, 24 seconds
Yearning for Yemen: Migration and Memory
A lecture by Ari Ariel (University of Iowa)
1/22/2019 • 57 minutes, 53 seconds
New Documentary Evidence For the Trade in Papers
A lecture by Anne Regourd (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
11/13/2018 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 8 seconds
From Deal to Deadlock: US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement with Iran
A panel with Jamal Abdi (National Iranian American Council), Asli Bali (UCLA), Kevan Harris (UCLA)
10/16/2018 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 7 seconds
Creating Beauty To Resist
A book talk and discussion with authors Ece Temelkuran and Molly Crabapple
5/17/2018 • 0
The Iranian Metaphysicals: Spiritual Empiricism and the Gender of Reason
A lecture by Alireza Doostdar (The University of Chicago Divinity School)
5/14/2018 • 44 minutes, 40 seconds
Between Equal Citizenship and the Promise of Redemption
A lecture by Lior Sternfeld (Ben Gurion University)
4/16/2018 • 38 minutes, 27 seconds
Sultan Abdülhamid II: Founding Father of the Turkish State?
A lecture by Edhem Eldem (Collège de France)
3/23/2018 • 0
Smart People, Dumb War: America's Intervention in Iraq
A lecture by Jason Brownlee (University of Texas at Austin)
2/22/2018 • 0
Roots of Iranian Rage: Protest and Power in the Islamic Republic
A book talk by Kevan Harris (UCLA) and Afshin Matin-Asgari (California State University, Los Angeles)
2/12/2018 • 0
Conference Multimedia: Understanding the New Middle East
Panel 4: Syria and Iraq
2/8/2018 • 0
Conference: Understanding the New Middle East
Panel 1: The Arab World Post-Uprisings
2/8/2018 • 0
Conference Multimedia: Understanding the New Middle East
Panel 5: Regional and International Competition in the New Middle East
2/8/2018 • 0
Conference Multimedia: Understanding the New Middle East
Panel 3: Art and Culture in the New Middle East
2/8/2018 • 0
Conference Multimedia: Understanding the New Middle East
Panel 6: Human Security in the New Middle East
2/8/2018 • 0
Conference Multimedia: Understanding the New Middle East
Keynote Address
2/8/2018 • 36 minutes, 2 seconds
Conference Multimedia: Understanding the New Middle East
Panel 2: The Future of Political Islam
2/8/2018 • 0
Oil Concession Law, Decolonization, and the Historiography of the Middle East
A lecture by Chris Dietrich (Fordham University)
1/30/2018 • 52 minutes, 26 seconds
Between the Ottoman Empire and Italy: The Jews of Rhodes 1880-1936
A lecture by Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University)
1/22/2018 • 1 hour, 6 seconds
“Vahdat-e Islami” (“Islamic Unity”) Conventions in Sarhadd, Iranian Baluchestan: A Tool for Stability and Power Control
A lecture by Vahe S. Boyajian (National Academy of Sciences, Armenia)
1/17/2018 • 40 minutes, 18 seconds
The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know
A book talk by James L. Gelvin (UCLA), with discussant Kevan Harris (UCLA)
11/9/2017 • 59 minutes, 6 seconds
A Model Minority? Sephardi Jews in the Late Ottoman Empire
A lecture by Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University)
11/8/2017 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 40 seconds
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Ottoman Middle East
A lecture by Heather J. Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania)
Thursday, November 02, 2017
11/2/2017 • 40 minutes, 22 seconds
The Politics of Secularism: Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey
A book talk by Murat Akan (Boğaziçi University)
10/30/2017 • 49 minutes, 55 seconds
Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy
A book talk with Dalia Fahmy (Long Island University), and Daanish Faruqi (Doctoral Candidate, Duke University)
10/16/2017 • 33 minutes, 31 seconds
False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East
Steven A. Cook discusses his new book on the Arab Spring uprisings and their aftermath
10/5/2017 • 43 minutes, 14 seconds
Shah Wali Allah's Response to Ijtihad and Sunni Legal Theory
A discussion with Mubasher Hussain, International Islamic University Islamabad (Pakistan)
9/25/2017 • 39 minutes, 43 seconds
Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy
A panel discussion featuring Professors Gardbaum and Langer of UCLA Law, with authors Asli Bâli (UCLA) and Hanna Lerner (Tel Aviv University)
9/5/2017 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 46 seconds
Beyond Honor and Shame: Rabbinic Control of Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt
A lecture by Eve Krakowski, Princeton University
5/8/2017 • 55 minutes, 51 seconds
The Naksa at 50: Nostalgia and Memory in the Middle East and Beyond
A panel with Hosam Aboul-Ela (University of Houston), Elliott Colla (Georgetown University), and Nadia Yaqub (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
4/28/2017 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 47 seconds
War Is Coming Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon
A book talk with Sami Hermez (Northwestern University, Qatar)
4/11/2017 • 47 minutes, 4 seconds
Performing Democracy: The Problem of Political Representation In Investigative Commissions To Palestine, 1919-2009
A lecture by Lori Allen (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
4/10/2017 • 46 minutes, 28 seconds
Algorithmic Culture and its Impact on a Post-Uprisings Middle East
A lecture by Laila Shereen Sakr (UCSB)
3/7/2017 • 45 minutes, 41 seconds
Jerusalem, on the Moving Edge of Israeli Colonial Rule
A lecture by Thomas Abowd (Tufts University)
2/27/2017 • 58 minutes, 18 seconds
Jewish Childhood in Ottoman and Independent Iraq
Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) is the featured speaker in the first Averroës Lecture on Jewish Communities in Muslim Lands, a new series sponsored by CNES.
2/16/2017 • 53 minutes, 5 seconds
Syria and the New Arab Wars
A lecture by Marc Lynch (George Washington University)
2/2/2017 • 45 minutes, 47 seconds
Academic Freedom at Risk: Turkey, the Middle East and Beyond
A one day conference
1/27/2017 • 0
Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
A book talk by Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) with comments by Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley) and Roger Waldinger (UCLA)
1/26/2017 • 56 minutes, 57 seconds
Ummah as a Muslim Race: A Global Intellectual History of Pan-Islamism
A lecture by Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
1/24/2017 • 1 hour, 55 seconds
The Tragedy of Progress: Rethinking the Genealogies of Feminism in Post-colonial Morocco
A lecture by Nadia Guessous (Colorado College)
1/17/2017 • 56 minutes, 21 seconds
Foucault in Iran: Political Spirituality and the Perils of Universal History
A lecture by Behrooz Tabrizi (University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign)
11/1/2016 • 47 minutes, 55 seconds
Beyond Continents and Colours: Postcolonial Middle Eastern History as Third Worldist History
A lecture by Jeffrey James Byrne (University of British Columbia)
10/27/2016 • 50 minutes, 50 seconds
Western Bombs, Eastern Societies: The Destruction of Nations and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
A lecture by Vijay Prashad (Trinity College)
10/12/2016 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 25 seconds
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)
5/24/2016 • 47 minutes, 28 seconds
Was the Rise of Islam a Black Swan Event?
A lecture by Michael Cook (Princeton University)
5/5/2016 • 49 minutes, 45 seconds
Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine
A book talk with Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara)
5/4/2016 • 54 minutes, 25 seconds
Arabs and "The Problem of the Color Line": Revisiting the 1919 Peace Conference
A lecture by Elizabeth F. Thompson (University of Virginia)
5/3/2016 • 55 minutes, 45 seconds
After the American Century: The Ends of U.S Culture in the Middle East
A book talk with Brian Edwards (Northwestern University)
4/25/2016 • 44 minutes, 46 seconds
Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey
A book talk with Lerna Ekmekcioglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4/19/2016 • 57 minutes, 18 seconds
Erased From Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948
A book talk with Noga Kadman
4/14/2016 • 29 minutes, 48 seconds
Egypt and Human Rights After the Arab Spring
A lecture by Mohamed Soltan
4/13/2016 • 41 minutes, 53 seconds
Alexander the Great, A Turkic Hero: Turkic Visages and Usages of the Macedonian Conqueror
A lecture by Marc Toutant (UCLA)
4/12/2016 • 45 minutes, 42 seconds
Constitution Making in Religiously Divided Societies: The Case of Israel
A lecture by Hanna Lerner (Tel Aviv University)
4/11/2016 • 50 minutes, 18 seconds
The Iconoclastic Icon: The Life, Poetry, and Letters of Forough Farrokhzad
A lecture in English by Farzaneh Milani (University of Virginia)
4/11/2016 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 38 seconds
The Iconoclastic Icon: The Life, Poetry, and the Letters of Forough Farrokhzad
A lecture in Persian by Farzaneh Milani (University of Virginia)
4/10/2016 • 50 minutes, 37 seconds
What's Next for Syria?
A book talk with Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami, authors of "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War".
4/1/2016 • 50 minutes, 47 seconds
Reimagining Political Space: Jihad, Empire, and the Interwar Making of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
A lecture by Jonathan Wyrtzen, Depts. of Sociology and History (Yale University)
3/9/2016 • 46 minutes, 28 seconds
From a Judge’s Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities for American-Muslims Post 9/11
A lecture by Judge Halim Dhanidina, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge (Adjunct faculty member at Whittier Law School)
3/7/2016 • 43 minutes, 8 seconds
Muslims in Europe: The Implications of Particularist Preferences and Resistance to Integration
A lecture by Ahmet O. Evin (Sabanci University)
3/7/2016 • 55 minutes, 18 seconds
Iran`s Intervention in Syria and the Saudi/ US Response
A lecture by Juan R.I Cole, Dept. of History, University of Michigan
3/2/2016 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 23 seconds
Law and Piety in Medieval Islam
A lecture by Megan Reid, Visiting Scholar (UCLA)
2/24/2016 • 30 minutes, 43 seconds
Avoiding a Collision Course: Perspectives on Turkey-NATO-Russian relations and the Syria Crisis
A panel discussion about the tensions between Turkey and Russia in light of the Syria crisis
2/19/2016 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 52 seconds
Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics
A book talk with Olivia C. Harrison, University of Southern California
and Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Tulane University
2/10/2016 • 50 minutes, 34 seconds
Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
A book talk with Joel Beinin, Dept. of History, Stanford University.
1/27/2016 • 53 minutes, 13 seconds
From Jinns to Germs: A Genealogy of Pasteurian Islam
A lecture by Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Depts. of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
11/20/2015 • 43 minutes, 21 seconds
The Cyrus Cylinder and the Rights Question
A lecture in Persian by Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Depts. of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
11/20/2015 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 39 seconds
Palestine and Pedagogy at the University: Panel Three
Conference Panel 3
moderated by Susan Slyomovics (Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA), with David Theo Goldberg (Depts. of Comparative Literature, Anthropology, Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine),
and David Lloyd (Dept. of English, UC Riverside)
11/19/2015 • 1 hour, 50 minutes
Palestine and Pedagogy at the University: Panel Two
Conference Panel 2 moderated by Sondra Hale, Research Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies (UCLA). With Lisa Rofel, Professor of Anthropology (UCSC), Lara Deeb, Professor and Chair of Anthropology (Scripps College), and Jessica Winega
11/18/2015 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 14 seconds
Palestine and Pedagogy at the University: Panel One
Conference Panel 1
moderated by Asli Bali (School of Law, UCLA), with Yaman Salahi (Asian Law Caucus), and Cheryl Harris (School of Law, UCLA)
11/17/2015 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 31 seconds
Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
A book launch and panel discussion moderated by Susan Slyomovics, UCLA, with Sarah Abrevaya Stein (Dept. of History, UCLA), Joshua Schreier (Dept. of History, Vassar College), Aomar Boum (Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA)
11/5/2015 • 59 minutes, 55 seconds
Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai
A lecture by Marcia Inhorn, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University
10/27/2015 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 41 seconds
Empires, States, and the Middle East in Revolt, 1915-2015
A lecture by Aiyaz Husain, Office of the Historian, U.S Department of State.
10/21/2015 • 32 minutes, 5 seconds
Imagining a Modern Iran and the Human Sciences
A lecture in English by Ali Mirsepassi, Dept. of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University
5/25/2015 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 54 seconds
The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2nd edition
A book talk with author James L. Gelvin (Dept. of History, UCLA), and Nouri Gana (Depts. of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Comparative Literature, UCLA)
5/20/2015 • 57 minutes, 41 seconds
The Polarized American Genocide Debate
A presentation by Benjamin Madley (Dept. of History, UCLA).
Part of a panel discussion on "Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Complementary or Competitive Paradigms?"
5/18/2015 • 18 minutes, 9 seconds
Martin, Malcolm and Muslims
A dialog with Omid Safi (Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University) and Sohail Daulatzai (Dept. of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies, UC Irvine)
5/18/2015 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 32 seconds
Provincial Cosmopolitanism in Late Ottoman Anatolia: An Armenian Shoemaker`s Memoir
A presentation by Nora Cherishian Lessersohn (Depts. of History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 3: Writing Armeno-Turkish History
5/13/2015 • 18 minutes, 14 seconds
Teach-In: Out of Nowhere? Some Questions, Answers, and Discussion about ISIS
Commentary by: Ali Hamdan, Dept. of Geography, UCLA
5/13/2015 • 20 minutes, 46 seconds
Persian Women and Other Lies: Story-telling as Historical Retrieval
A book talk by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Author
5/13/2015 • 52 minutes, 43 seconds
Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Middle East Studies in the United States
A lecture by Zachary Lockman, Dept. of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University
5/13/2015 • 51 minutes, 46 seconds
The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Levant
A lecture by Dana Sajdi, Dept. of History, Boston College, Current Post-doctoral Fellow at the Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT
5/8/2015 • 44 minutes, 37 seconds
Impossible Testimonies: Literature and Aesthetics in the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide
A lecture by Talar Chahinian, Department of Comparative Literature and Classics, California State University, Long Beach
5/8/2015 • 57 minutes, 49 seconds
Commentary on History, Memory, and Testimony
A presentation by Janet Klein (University of Akron). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide"
5/6/2015 • 11 minutes, 9 seconds
In a Historiographic No Man's Land: Ottoman Armenian Artists and Art History
A presentation by Vazken Khatchig Davidian (Birkbeck College, University of London).
Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 3: Writing Armeno-Turkish History before the Genocide
5/6/2015 • 20 minutes, 9 seconds
Traversals: Time, History, and Justice in a Kurdish Diyarbakir
A presentation by Ruken Sengul (Anthropology and History Dept., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 5: History, Memory, and Testimony
5/6/2015 • 21 minutes, 40 seconds
Commentary on Writing Armeno-Turkish History before the Genocide
A presentation by Ronald Grigor Suny (Dept. of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide"
5/6/2015 • 19 minutes, 35 seconds
Holocaust Denial in the 21st Century: Flat Earth theory or Clear and Present Danger?
Deborah Lipstadt (Emory University). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 4: Genocide Denial in Global Context
5/6/2015 • 24 minutes, 2 seconds
An Armenian Past in a Kurdish Present: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting
A presentation by Anoush Suni (UCLA). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 5: History, Memory, and Testimony
5/6/2015 • 17 minutes, 46 seconds
Reassessing "Shared" Practices in Early-Twentieth-Century Bolis: Ottoman Physical Culture Amongst Armenians and Turks
A presentation by Murat Yildiz, (Dept. of History, UCLA). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 3: Writing Armeno-Turkish History before the Genocide
5/6/2015 • 22 minutes, 14 seconds
Feeding the Line: The Story Behind Ambassador Morgenthau-Revisited
Ara Sarafian (Gomidas Institute). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 4: Genocide Denial in Global Context
5/6/2015 • 19 minutes
Historical Agency Eternal Victimhood and Turkish/Armenian Relations: Do Armenia and Armenians Matter in History?
A presentation by Gerard Libaridian (Dept. of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 6: Armenian-Turkish Relations, c. 1990-2015
5/6/2015 • 21 minutes, 33 seconds
Commentary on Genocide Denial in Global Context
A presentation by Wendy Lower (Dept. of History, Claremont-McKenna College). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide"
5/6/2015 • 8 minutes, 8 seconds
Egalophobia, the Armenian Genocide, and 'Confronting the past for a Peaceful Future'
A presentation by Bulent Bilmez (Tarih Vakfi and Bilgi University, Istanbul). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 6: Armenian-Turkish Relations, c. 1990-2015
5/6/2015 • 22 minutes, 55 seconds
A Neglected History: Armenians in the Provinces and the Larger Ottoman Context in the Nineteenth Century
A presentation by Yasar Tolga Cora (Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 3: Writing Armeno-Turkish History b
5/6/2015 • 19 minutes, 40 seconds
Rendering Singular Subjectivities through Shared Discourses
A presentation by Dzovinar Derderian (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Part of "Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide", Panel 3: Writing Armeno-Turkish History before the Genocide
5/6/2015 • 18 minutes, 37 seconds
ISIS and the Enslavement and Trafficking of Women
A lecture by Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of Law, UCLA
4/15/2015 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 16 seconds
Impossible Testimonies: Literature and Aesthetics in the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide
A lecture by Talar Chahinian, Dept. of Comparative Literature and Classics, California State University Long Beach
4/14/2015 • 55 minutes, 44 seconds
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
A book talk by Charles King, Dept. of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University. Discussant: Gabriel Piterberg, Dept. of History, UCLA.
4/8/2015 • 57 minutes, 12 seconds
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Imperial Ideology in French Africa and Algeria
A lecture by Adria Lawrence, Depts. of Political Science and International and Area Studies, Yale University
3/20/2015 • 37 minutes, 47 seconds
Ottoman (Dis)Placements, Geographies and Spatialities in the World of a 17th-century Armenian Author in Kefe (Feodosia)
A lecture by Rachel Goshgarian
3/20/2015 • 51 minutes, 33 seconds
Intimacy, Testimony, Protest: Armenian Lullaby as a Genre of History
A lecture by Melissa Bilal, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Music, Columbia Uniiversity
3/4/2015 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 47 seconds
Digital Humanities and the Premodern Islamic World: Of Graphs, Maps, and 30,000 Muslims
A lecture by Maxim Romanov, Dept. of Classics and the Perseus Digital Library Project,
Tufts University
3/4/2015 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 51 seconds
All The Light There Was, A Novel about Armenians in Paris during the Nazi Occupation
A lecture by Nancy Krikorian, Author
3/4/2015 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 24 seconds
A Review on the Situation of the Living Environment in Iran
A lecture in Persian by Morad Tahbaz, Persian Wildlife Foundation
3/3/2015 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 26 seconds
Iran’s Environment, Challenges and Opportunities
A lecture in English by Morad Tahbaz, Persian Wildlife Foundation
3/3/2015 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 50 seconds
Energy and Middle East History
A lecture by Richard W. Bulliet, Dept. of History, Columbia University
3/3/2015 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 38 seconds
Panel on Russo-Iranian Political Relations and Intellectual Ties
A panel discussion in Persian with Maziar Behrooz (Dept. of History, San Francisco State University), Ali Farasati (Dept. of Urban Planning, CSU Northridge), Afshin Matin-Asgari (Dept. of History, CSU Los Angeles).
2/24/2015 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 46 seconds
The Islamic State and Yazidi Genocide
A two-part panel presentation.
Part one: "The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State," James L. Gelvin, UCLA
Part two: "'This is the 74th Ferman on Us!':The Yazidis, from Ottoman Atrocities to Islamic State Genocide," Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Dartmouth College
2/4/2015 • 54 minutes, 13 seconds
Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
A lecture by Berdross Der Matossian, Dept. of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
1/21/2015 • 56 minutes, 8 seconds
A Social History of Dance in Iran
A lecture in Persian by Mansoureh Sabetzadeh, Islamic Azad University
1/16/2015 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 3 seconds
Songs of Imperial Authority: The Changing Function of Music From the Timurids to the Safavids
A lecture by Ann E. Lucas, Dept. of Music, Boston College
1/9/2015 • 39 minutes, 9 seconds
Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009
A Lecture by Fatma Muge Gocek, Dept. of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
11/18/2014 • 50 minutes, 21 seconds
On Human Shields in Gaza
A lecture by Neve Gordon, Dept. of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
11/18/2014 • 40 minutes, 32 seconds
Indigeneity, Palestine, and the Demands of Civility
A lecture by Steven Salaita, Indigenous Studies Scholar, with introductions by Robin D.G. Kelley (Dept. of History, UCLA) and Saree Makdisi (Depts. of English, Comparative Literature, UCLA).
11/7/2014 • 53 minutes, 42 seconds
Hidden Liberalism in Modern Iran: The Paradox of Political Struggle
A lecture by Hussein Banai, Dept. of Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College
10/29/2014 • 38 minutes, 26 seconds
Ralph Bunche and the Politics of Binationalism in Palestine
A lecture by Alex Lubin, Director of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut
7/15/2014 • 51 minutes, 13 seconds
Minorities between state-society dynamics in revolutionary processes: The Christian Copts of Egypt 2011-2013
A lecture by Mai Mogib, Dept. of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, CNES Visiting Fulbright Scholar
7/15/2014 • 48 minutes, 56 seconds
Looking for Ethnicity in Iran
A lecture by Rasmus Christian Elling, Copenhagen University
7/15/2014 • 34 minutes, 14 seconds
Reform and Reality: Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire
A lecture by Kent Schull, Binghamton University
7/14/2014 • 45 minutes, 48 seconds
Ottomans and the Kodak Galaxy: Illustrated Journals and Photography During the Hamidian Era (1876-1909)
A lecture by Ahmet Ersoy, Dept. of History at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
7/14/2014 • 56 minutes, 20 seconds
Social Man: Palestinian Capitalists and British Colonial Rule
A lecture by Sherene Seikaly, Director of The Middle East Studies Center and Assistant Professor of History, American University in Cairo
7/14/2014 • 40 minutes, 48 seconds
Podcast: The Empire of the Steppe: Russia's Colonial Experience on the Eurasian Frontiers
Eurasian Empires Seminar Series Lecture by Michael Khodarkovsky, Loyola University, Chicago
7/14/2014 • 59 minutes, 21 seconds
Attitudes Toward Sephardic Language Change and Multilingualism Expressed in New York City's 'La America' in the Early 20th Century
A lecture by Holly Vernon (University of Houston-Downtown). Part of the 3rd ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposium.
7/1/2014 • 17 minutes
The Last Generation of Native Ladino Speakers: Judeo-Spanish and the Sephardic Community in Seattle
A lecture by Molly Fitzmorris (University of Washington). Part of the 3rd ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposium.
7/1/2014 • 24 minutes, 47 seconds
French vs. Judeo-Spanish: Alliance Israelite Universelle in the Ottoman Empire
A lecture by Ana Ciric Pavlovic (Central European University). Part of the 3rd ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposium.
7/1/2014 • 20 minutes, 47 seconds
A Language's Path from the Heart to the Mouth of its People [Lecture in Judeo-Spanish]
A lecture by Eliezer Papo (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev). Part of the 3rd ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposium.
7/1/2014 • 41 minutes, 5 seconds
A Secret Passage: A Conversational Visit with Dona Gracia Mendes
A lecture by Rifka Cook (Northwestern University). Part of the 3rd ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposium.
7/1/2014 • 20 minutes, 29 seconds
Sefarad 4.0: Revitalization in the Age of the Virtual Diaspora
A lecture by Bryan Kirschen (UCLA). Part of the 3rd ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposium.
7/1/2014 • 16 minutes, 54 seconds
Revitalization of Ladino through Music and Technological Innovation
A lecture by Susanna Zaraysky (Author). Part of the 3rd ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposium.
7/1/2014 • 17 minutes, 32 seconds