CNES Podcasts

Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period
A lecture by Michael Cooperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
posted: 5/17/2013 12:00:00 AM

Singing, Chanting, and Chatter: Street Sounds and Songs of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
A lecture by Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University
posted: 5/16/2013 12:00:00 AM

Continuity and Change in the Cultural Legacy of Qajar Era
A lecture in Persian by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University. Part of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.
posted: 5/10/2013 12:00:00 AM

Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet
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.
posted: 5/8/2013 12:00:00 AM

Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University
posted: 4/17/2013 12:00:00 AM

Return of the Brothers: Student Activism and Islamic Politics in 1970s Egypt
A lecture on April 10, 2013 by Abdullah Al-Arian,Wayne State University
posted: 4/15/2013 12:00:00 AM

The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang, Bennington College. Part of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.
posted: 4/2/2013 12:00:00 AM

Iran and the Rise of the 21st Century Intellectuals
A lecture in Persian by Ata Hoodashtian, Institut Canadien de Management. Commentary by Dr. Ali Akbar Mahdi follows.
posted: 3/12/2013 12:00:00 AM

Nationalist Internationalism, or a pre-history of non-Alignment
A lecture by Noor-Aiman I. Khan, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Program in Middle East and Islamic Civilizations, Colgate University
posted: 3/8/2013 12:00:00 AM

The Persistence of the Past: How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affect Our World Today
A lecture by Ronald Grigor Suny. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA
posted: 3/8/2013 12:00:00 AM

A Book Talk by Kambiz Navai on “Khesht o Khial: An Interpretation of Iranian Islamic Architecture”
A book talk by Kambiz Navai, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
posted: 2/25/2013 12:00:00 AM

The Safety of Journalists
A lecture by Mohammad Manzarpour, BBC Persian Bureau Editor, Washington DC, following the screening of the documentary "The Ayatollah's Seal"
posted: 1/31/2013 12:00:00 AM

Patriot of Persia
A book reading by Christopher de Bellaigue, Journalist
posted: 1/14/2013 12:00:00 AM

A Night of Poetry with Renowned Iranian Poet: Houshang Ebtehaj (Sayeh)
A reading in Persian by Houshang Ebtehaj (Sayeh) on Sunday, December 09, 2012
posted: 12/17/2012 12:00:00 AM

Myths in Bahram Beyzaie's Works
A lecture in Persian by Bahram Beyzaie, film/theater Director, screen/play writer, researcher
posted: 12/3/2012 12:00:00 AM

Captive Consumers? Shopping, Urban Space, and the Colonial Politics of Middle East Consumption
A lecture by Nancy Reynolds, Washington University in St. Louis
posted: 11/15/2012 12:00:00 AM

Labour Agency in Refashioning the Discourse of Modernity and Social Developments in Iran [Forudastan va Bazkhani-ye Goftman Tajadod dar Iran]
A lecture by Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History.
posted: 11/15/2012 12:00:00 AM

Perish the Thought: Israel and the Search for Peace in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
A lecture by Dr. Avi Raz, Oxford University
posted: 11/8/2012 12:00:00 AM

The Particularities of Our Culture [Ekhtesasat-e Farhangie ma]
A lecture by Morteza Mardiha, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (lecture in Persian)
posted: 11/7/2012 12:00:00 AM

Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprising
A November 1, 2012 lecture by Professor James Gelvin, History Department, UCLA
posted: 11/2/2012 12:00:00 AM