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The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source is intended as a resource for students, teachers, and the general public. It makes available recordings of conferences, lectures, and performances sponsored and organized by: the Center for International Studies; the Human Rights Program; the Center for East Asian Studies; the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies; the Center for Latin American Studies; the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and the South Asian Language and Area Center. It is funded in part by grants from the U.S. Department of Education.

Episode Date
“Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the U.S. and Started Prospering”
Feb 10, 2012
“All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals”
Jan 13, 2012
"Climate Change & the International Negotiations" (audio)
May 24, 2011
"Venezuela Speaks!" (audio)
Apr 14, 2011
"Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It"
Jan 25, 2011
"Moonset on Sunrise Mountain: Narrative, Politics, and the Accession of Kulottunga I Cola"
Oct 21, 2010
"The Flood Disaster in Pakistan: Socio-economic Consequences and Potential Geopolitical Ramifications"
Oct 19, 2010
"The Empire and the Birth of Historical Research in India"
Sep 30, 2010
"Elephants, Gods and People: The Cultural History of the Asian Elephants"
May 17, 2010
"Between Globalization and Global Warming"
May 11, 2010
"America's Water Crisis"
May 11, 2010
"Non-Eurocentric Historical Geographies of Modern Science: Perspectives from South Asia"
May 07, 2010
"The Informal Economy in Mexico"
May 06, 2010
“Impossible Translation: Beyond the Legal Body in Two South Asian Family Courts”
Apr 17, 2010
“Situating the Subaltern in South Asian Medical History”
Apr 17, 2010
“Language Worlds in South Asia”
Apr 08, 2010
“Afghanistan and the Future of Peace Operations”
Apr 08, 2010
“Asian Carp Invasion: Potential Economic and Ecological Impacts in the Great Lakes”
Apr 06, 2010
“Celling India: The Mobile Phone's Contribution to Capitalism, Democracy and Unsettling Society”
Apr 01, 2010
Panel 3: The Politics of Knowledge in a Global World
Mar 12, 2010
Panel 2: The Problem of Historical Difference
Mar 12, 2010
Panel 1: The Idea of Europe
Mar 12, 2010
Keynote: “Provincializing the World: Europeans, Indians, Jews (1704)”
Mar 12, 2010
“The Consequences of the Escalation of War in Afghanistan”
Mar 10, 2010
“The Heuristic Potential of the Dream Register of Tipu Sultan of Mysore (r.1782-99)”
Mar 04, 2010
“Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty”
Mar 03, 2010
"The Influence of Shaivism on Pala Buddhism"
Mar 01, 2010
“Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy”
Feb 19, 2010
“The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa”
Feb 05, 2010
“The Stones of Banaras: Conservation and Colonial Bureaucracy in a Small Indian City”
Jan 28, 2010
"Teach-in on the Haiti Emergency"
Jan 20, 2010
"Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization"
Nov 18, 2009
"International Reactions to the Coup in Honduras"
Nov 17, 2009
"Special Address:Perspectives from an Amazonian Social Movement"
Nov 06, 2009
"Panel 3 - Science and Technology as a Basis for a New Development Model for the Amazon"
Nov 06, 2009
“Invoking Chola and Maratha Pasts in Colonial Thanjavur: King Serfoji II's Reinvention of the Brihadisvara Temple”
Nov 05, 2009
"Panel 2 - Social Movements and Chico Mendes' Legacy for the Sustainable Development of the Amazon"
Nov 05, 2009
"Panel 1 - Models of Development: An Assessment of the Last 20 Years of Public Policy for the Amazon Region"
Nov 05, 2009
Opening Remarks
Nov 05, 2009
"With Immediate Effect: The Events of 1989 Revisited"
Nov 05, 2009
"The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East"
Oct 29, 2009
“What Is a Record? Tamil Scribes in the Polyglot World of Early Colonial Madras”
Oct 29, 2009
"Tropicality, Tropicalism: Forest Resurgence and the Politics of Latin American Conservation" (video)
Oct 28, 2009
"Democracy in Nicaragua"
Oct 21, 2009
"The U.N. Security Council and the Making of the Modern World"
Oct 08, 2009
“'I Am Who I Am': On Being Nostalgic in Sanskrit”
Oct 08, 2009
"The Cuban Transition: Imagined and Actual"
Oct 07, 2009
“Temples and Conquest in the Deccan, 1296-1500”
Oct 01, 2009
"A Sky to Fly: Archiving Women's Lives in Words and Images"
Jun 05, 2009
“The Future of the South African Dream: Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, and the South African Elections”
May 26, 2009
"Birth of the Girl-Child: Speculations on the Nineteenth Century Reawakening"
May 21, 2009
"In the Name of God: Regulating Religion in Indian Elections"
May 14, 2009
"Aesthetics of Indian Art"
May 07, 2009
“Reconceptualizing the Question: Intervention Strategies”
Apr 24, 2009
"Keynote: Connecting the Dots: Some Ways of Reframing South Asian History"
Apr 18, 2009
"Roundtable: On the Usefulness of the Concept of the Modern"
Apr 17, 2009
Alash Ensemble Concert
Apr 15, 2009
"Recent Developments in Indonesia's Forests: Revival, Resurgence, or Business as Usual?"
Apr 02, 2009
"Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East"
Mar 10, 2009
"Mexican Oil and Gas Policies"
Mar 05, 2009
"Dignity and Defiance, Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization"
Feb 25, 2009
"Music and Dance Rhythms from the Balkans"
Feb 21, 2009
"Challenges in Latin America: The Importance of Increased Economic and Political Integration"
Feb 05, 2009
"Crime and Responsibility: War, Indiscriminate Bombing, and Mass Killing"
Feb 03, 2009
"The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do to Stop It"
Jan 21, 2009
"Terror in Mumbai: Reflections on the Aftermath"
Jan 14, 2009
"Sites of Conflict: Identity and Insurgency in Postcolonial Northeast India"
Nov 21, 2008
"The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power"
Nov 21, 2008
"Challenges for the New Administration in Iraq and Afghanistan"
Nov 13, 2008
"India: The Emerging Giant"
Nov 06, 2008
"Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness"
Oct 28, 2008
"Taiwan's New Approach: Opportunities and Challenges for President Ma Ying-jeou's Government"
Oct 24, 2008
"The U.S. and R.O.C.: A Fresh Start"
Oct 24, 2008
"Putin's Labyrinth: What Russia Won in Georgia; Why the U.S. Will Continue to Lose"
Oct 22, 2008
"Hugo Chavez y la Realidad Venezolana de Hoy"
Oct 21, 2008
"Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power"
Oct 16, 2008
"Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia"
Jun 10, 2008
"Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror"
Jun 06, 2008
"Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War"
May 15, 2008
"Making Sense of Caste-Politics Interaction in Contemporary India"
May 15, 2008
PGE Distinguished Lecture: "Is Development Sustainable? Not Even Close"
May 09, 2008
"Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making"
Apr 28, 2008
"Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
Apr 22, 2008
"The Next Great Clash"
Apr 15, 2008
"Muslim Peace Building in Conflict Regions of Southeast Asia"
Apr 10, 2008
Genocide Conference Panel 3: “Confronting Darfur"
Apr 05, 2008
Genocide Conference Panel 2: “Prevention and Response"
Apr 05, 2008
Genocide Conference Panel 1: “Defining the 'Crime without a Name'"
Apr 05, 2008
Francis Deng: Genocide Conference Keynote Address
Apr 04, 2008
Roksonaki Concert
Apr 01, 2008
"The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order"
Mar 20, 2008
"Ganesa versus Kusilavau: Myths and Reality of the Oral Composition of the Sanskrit Epics"
Mar 18, 2008
"The Language of Global History: Ashraf, Middle Classes and Buerger - Examples from Delhi in the Nineteenth Century"
Mar 13, 2008
"The Closing of the ICTY and its Effect on Justice and Accountability in the Former Yugoslavia"
Mar 07, 2008
"Moments of self-portraiture in Mughal painting"
Mar 06, 2008
"The Sixth Anniversary of the Gujarat Riots"
Mar 05, 2008
Displacement Week: "Forum on the University of Chicago and Hyde Park/Kenwood/Woodlawn"
Feb 29, 2008
"One Hundred Years, One Hundred Voices"
Feb 28, 2008
Displacement Week: "The Effects of Gentrification on Chicago's Communities"
Feb 27, 2008
"Kingship, courts and capitals: Sultanate Delhi in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries"
Feb 26, 2008
Displacement Week: "Chicago and the 2016 Olympics"
Feb 26, 2008
"Immigrant Organizations in the U.S.: Opportunities and Challenges"
Feb 21, 2008
"Imagining Inscriptions: Epigraphy and the Construction of Indian History"
Feb 07, 2008
"Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy"
Feb 01, 2008
"Poverty and Income Inequality in Brazil"
Jan 29, 2008
"New Partnership Paradoxes in U.S.-China Relations"
Jan 26, 2008
"Cows, Cars and Cycle-Rickshaws: The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi"
Jan 25, 2008
"Human Rights in Mexico: Inside the Labyrinth of Drugs, Elections and Billionaires"
Jan 24, 2008
"Till Class Do Us Part: Youth and the Politics of Waiting in India"
Jan 24, 2008
"Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History"
Jan 18, 2008
"The Mind of the Market"
Jan 15, 2008
"'Bhadralok Detenus': Prisons and Detention Camps in Interwar Bengal"
Jan 11, 2008
"Photography as Prophecy: India 1839-1900"
Nov 16, 2007
"China's Brave New World and Other Tales for Global Times"
Nov 16, 2007
"The Oil and Glory"
Nov 01, 2007
"The Talibanization of South Asia: Can it Be Stopped?"
Oct 30, 2007
"Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq"
Oct 26, 2007
"Japan as Client State"
Oct 22, 2007
"National Interests, Regional Concerns: Historicizing Malayalam Cinema"
Oct 18, 2007
"Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror"
Oct 17, 2007
"In Defense of Academic Freedom"
Oct 12, 2007
"Legal Defense and Human Rights in Russia"
Oct 03, 2007
"Time and the Sacred"
Sep 28, 2007
"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Sep 28, 2007
"Demography of Ancient South Asian Populations"
Sep 27, 2007
Chicago Humanities Festival: Wangari Maathai
Sep 23, 2007
"Indigenous Rights: The Case of Chiapas"
May 21, 2007
"Venezuelan Government Perspective on the Future of Petroleum"
May 19, 2007
“Democracy, Governance, and War in Oil Exporting Nations”
May 19, 2007
"Petroleum Technology Presentation"
May 19, 2007
“United States Energy Policy and Oil Alternatives”
May 19, 2007
“Securing the International Oil Supply”
May 18, 2007
"United States Government Perspective Global Energy Security"
May 18, 2007
"Japanese Education and Society in Crisis"
May 18, 2007
"The Modern Human Rights Movement in Mexico"
May 17, 2007
"The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor"
May 15, 2007
"Intersex at the Intersection of Queer Theory & Disability Theory"
May 11, 2007
"The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future"
May 09, 2007
"Colonialism, Militarism, and the Political Economy of Transracial Adoption"
May 09, 2007
2007 COSAL: Prose Reading: Salma (audio)
May 05, 2007
2007 COSAL: Roundtable (audio)
May 05, 2007
2007 COSAL: Keynote Address (audio)
May 04, 2007
2007 COSAL: Presentations (audio)
May 04, 2007
2007 COSAL: Remembrance of Norman Cutler & Poetry Reading: Salma (audio)
May 04, 2007
"(Questions) History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age"
May 04, 2007
"Session 3 (Futures) - History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age"
May 04, 2007
"Session 2 (Boundaries) - History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age"
May 04, 2007
"Session 1 (Politics) - History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age"
May 04, 2007
"U.S.-Cuban Academic Relations Part II: Roundtable Discussion on U.S.-Cuban Academic Exchange"
May 04, 2007
"U.S.-Cuban Academic Relations Part I: The Politics of U.S.-Cuban Exchanges"
May 04, 2007
"The Fifteen-Woman Lawsuit Opposing the Self-Defense Forces in Iraq"
May 03, 2007
"Labor Rights: The Case of Ciudad Juarez"
May 03, 2007
"Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way"
Apr 27, 2007
"The Persistence of the 'Mythological' in Popular Hindi Cinema"
Apr 26, 2007
"Q&A with Director Hitomi Kamanaka"
Apr 20, 2007
"Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America"
Apr 19, 2007
"Militarization of U.S. Foreign Relations with Latin America: Prospects for Change"
Apr 17, 2007
"Poetry Reading by Yevgeny Yevtushenko"
Apr 13, 2007
"The Current Security and Economic Situation on the Korean Peninsula"
Apr 12, 2007
"Truth, Lies, and Duct Tape"
Apr 12, 2007
"Beyond the Code: Custom, Law, and Colonialism"
Apr 12, 2007
"Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Public Intellectual in South Asian Scholarship"
Apr 07, 2007
"The Rise and Fall of the Myth of the Mexican Revolution"
Apr 03, 2007
“Baltimore Drowning: A Slavic Microhistory of Global Proportions"
Mar 31, 2007
"Why I Went to Iraq…Three Years Later"
Mar 29, 2007
"The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression"
Mar 08, 2007
"Postwar Japan on the Brink: Militarism, Colonialism, Yasukuni Shrine"
Mar 06, 2007
"Environmental Challenges Across Asia - Q & A"
Mar 03, 2007
"Ecology, Human Rights, and Large Dam Projects in South Asia"
Mar 03, 2007
"Environmental Degradation and Deforestation in Thailand and Cambodia"
Mar 03, 2007
"Environmental Disaster in the Marshes of Southern Iraq"
Mar 03, 2007
"Crocodiles and Humans in Southeast Asia: Four Centuries of Co-existence and Confrontation"
Mar 03, 2007
"Collateral Damage: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century"
Feb 23, 2007
"Reflections on Argentina" - Session 3 of "Poverty & Growth: Reflections on Latin America"
Feb 19, 2007
"An Evening of Russian Music with the University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra"
Feb 18, 2007
"Ending Global Poverty"
Feb 12, 2007
"Islam in America: A Conversation with Paul Barrett and Umar Abd-Allah"
Feb 08, 2007
"Growth, Poverty and Economic Development" - Session 2 of "Poverty & Growth: Reflections on Latin America" (audio)
Feb 05, 2007
"A Folding Chair, an Easy-Chair or a Director's Chair for Indian Philosophy? An Examination of the Views of Wilhelm Halbfass and Johannes Bronkhorst"
Feb 01, 2007
"Growth: Evidence and Sources" - Session 1 of "Poverty & Growth: Reflections on Latin America"
Jan 22, 2007
"Self: Myth, Delusion, Fiction, or Prerequisite?"
Jan 18, 2007
"Nicaraguan Presidential Elections: Prospects for the Region"
Jan 16, 2007
"Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran"
Jan 11, 2007
"New Writing from the Balkans"
Jan 10, 2007
"Muslim Interpreters of Yoga"
Jan 04, 2007
"Human Rights and the Arts: Guantanamo in the Theater"
Nov 13, 2006
"Mexico's 2006 Presidential Elections and the Fragility of Democratic Institutions"
Nov 13, 2006
Symposium: One Hundred Years of All-India Muslim League - "Law, Community and Society: Writing the Histories of Muslim League"
Nov 04, 2006
Symposium: One Hundred Years of All-India Muslim League - "Shibli and Early Years of Muslim League"
Nov 04, 2006
Symposium: One Hundred Years of All-India Muslim League - Keynote Address: "A Sentimental Essay in Three Scenes - With An Epilogue"
Nov 04, 2006
"Youth in Low-Income Communities in Rio de Janeiro: Education and Job Prospects"
Nov 04, 2006
Honoree: Dr. Harold Richman
Nov 04, 2006
"Youth Civic Engagement, A Three City Study: Chicago, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro"
Nov 04, 2006
Keynote Address by Irene Rizzini
Nov 04, 2006
"Mexico's 2006 Presidential Elections and Challenges for the New Government"
Nov 02, 2006
"Buddhist Paleo-Compatibilism"
Nov 02, 2006
"Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico"
Oct 26, 2006
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope"
Oct 23, 2006
"Monsters to Destroy: Bush's War on Terror and Sin"
Oct 17, 2006
"Right vs. Left & the Newborn Mexican Democracy: Can the the Three Survive?"
Oct 16, 2006
"Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq"
Sep 26, 2006
"Infections, Transmissions, Cultures: the AIDS Scandals of 1990s Japan and the Genesis of 'J-Horror'"
Jun 29, 2006
"Local and Global Public Health Links: Preparation for an Influenza Pandemic"
Jun 29, 2006
"The Cholera Pandemic and 19th Century Japanese Culture"
Jun 27, 2006
"DPT - From Epidemics to Immunizations a Modern Success Story"
Jun 27, 2006
"'Virgin Soil' Epidemics and Demographic Collapse in the Americas"
Jun 27, 2006
"Black Death in the Middle East and Europe"
Jun 27, 2006
"Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity: The Example of Ancient Mesopotamia"
Jun 26, 2006
"The Mighty and the Almighty"
May 17, 2006
"Is the Commander-in-Chief Subject to the Rule of Law?: On Torture, Spying, and Detention in the War on Terror"
Apr 17, 2006
"Paul Rusesabagina: An Ordinary Man"
Apr 17, 2006
"Latin American Elections: Turning Left?"
Apr 03, 2006
"Dying to Win: On the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism"
Apr 03, 2006
John Comaroff's Introduction of Zackie Achmat
Mar 31, 2006
“Realizing Human Rights: Access to HIV/AIDS Medication and the Role of Civil Society in South Africa”
Mar 31, 2006
Ahmed Kathrada on his "Memoirs"
Mar 27, 2006
"The South African Constitutional Court Looks at Same-Sex Marriage: The Fourie Case"
Jan 11, 2006
"Water Resources in the Middle East, part 2"
Nov 08, 2005
"Water Resources in the Middle East, part 1"
Nov 08, 2005
"Constructing a North American Community"
Oct 27, 2005
"A Brief History of Neoliberalism"
Oct 26, 2005
response to: "Feeling the Heat: Simmering National Security Threats"
Oct 07, 2005
"Feeling the Heat: Simmering National Security Threats"
Oct 07, 2005
"Media and the Making of the Modern State"
Jun 20, 2005
"Advocacy and Medical Care for Victims of Torture and INS Detainees in the U.S."
Mar 20, 2005
"The Prospects for Transatlantic Relations at the Beginning of the President’s Second Term"
Mar 07, 2005
"The Weakness of the State in Latin America"
Feb 22, 2005
"NAFTA & Mexico: Ten Years Later"
Jan 13, 2005
"Venezuela: A Proposed Social Charter of the Americas"
Nov 18, 2004
"Global Chicago, pt. 5"
Oct 25, 2004
"Global Chicago, pt. 4"
Oct 25, 2004
"Global Chicago, pt. 3"
Oct 25, 2004
"Global Chicago, pt. 2"
Oct 25, 2004
"Global Chicago, pt. 1"
Oct 25, 2004
"Mexico: Problems of a New Democracy"
Oct 21, 2004
"Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past"
Oct 19, 2004
Latin American Business Conference: "Sustained Growth in Latin America: Key Lessons From Chile"
May 22, 2004
Latin American Business Conference: "Argentina: Development, Outlook, Opportunities"
May 22, 2004
Latin American Business Conference: "Managing Growth: Uncertainty in Latin America"
May 22, 2004
"American Foreign Policy and Amnesia: The Case of Iraq"
May 13, 2004
"Interactions Between the Press and Foreign Policy"
May 02, 2004
"Whatever Happened to Globalization?"
Apr 27, 2004
"Consolidating Democracy in Mexico: Adapting and Reforming Institutions for Democracy"
Apr 24, 2004
"Consolidating Democracy in Mexico: Keynote Address"
Apr 23, 2004
"The 'Urban' in International Economic Development: Lessons from a Colombian City"
Apr 20, 2004
"Reform in the Arab World: A Journalist's Perspective"
Apr 19, 2004
"The United States and the Arab World: Sources of Antagonism, Prospects for Accommodation"
Mar 09, 2004
"Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth about North Korea, Iran, and Syria"
Feb 10, 2004
"The Making of Chechen Terrorists: The Clash of Forces and Discourses"
Jan 27, 2004
Yosef Gorny: "The Road Map to Peace? The War and its Impact on Israelis and Palestinians"
May 13, 2003
Rashid Khalidi: "The Road Map to Peace? The War and its Impact on Israelis and Palestinians"
May 13, 2003
Naci Koru: "The Future of Transatlantic Alliances"
May 01, 2003
Dominique Decherf: "The Future of Transatlantic Alliances"
May 01, 2003
Alexander Petri: "The Future of Transatlantic Alliances"
May 01, 2003
Marvin Zonis: "The Future of Transatlantic Alliances"
May 01, 2003
Robert Pape: "The War in Iraq and America's Role in the World"
Apr 17, 2003
John Mearsheimer: "The War in Iraq and America's Role in the World"
Apr 17, 2003
Salim Yaqub: "Constraining and Shaping Nationalism: The United States and Iraq"
Apr 07, 2003
Rashid Khalidi: "Constraining and Shaping Nationalism: The United States and Iraq"
Apr 07, 2003
Fred Donner: "Iraq Before Saddam Hussein"
Apr 03, 2003
McGuire Gibson: "Iraq Before Saddam Hussein"
Apr 03, 2003