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CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio]
261 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 12 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe 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.
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“Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the U.S. and Started Prospering”
February 10, 2012 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by Hal Whitesman, Financial Times' Chicago and Midwest bureau chief. Thanks to demand from big emerging economies, most South American governments have become increasingly "resource nationalistic" and have ramped up social spending to meet the needs of the poor and the indigenous, causing poverty levels to drop - at the same time as poverty has been on the increase in the United States. Will the U.S. continue losing influence in Latin America? Will China soon dominate the area both c...
“All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals”
January 13, 2012 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by David Scheffer, Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University. As senior adviser to Madeleine Albright and then as President Clinton’s ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, David Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia, and that resulted in the creation of the permanent International Criminal Court. All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crime...
"Climate Change & the International Negotiations" (audio)
May 24, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBSince the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was established in 1994, efforts to secure international agreement on climate policy have gained increasing attention, but compromise on the issues has not been easy to achieve.
"Venezuela Speaks!" (audio)
April 14, 2011 23:00 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBFor the last decade, Venezuela’s “Bolivarian Revolution” has captured international attention. Poverty, inequality, and unemployment have all dropped, while health, education, and living standards have seen a commensurate rise. Venezuela Speaks! is the real, bottom-up account of the country's bloodless uprising and reorganization. Co-editor Carlos Martinez will explain how the stories in Venezuela Speaks! offer a different perspective than that of the international mainstream media, which ha...
"Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It"
January 25, 2011 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBIn this talk, Robert Pape presents findings from the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism demonstrating that, contrary to popular belief, religion alone motivates only a tiny minority of suicide attacks. Instead, the root cause is foreign military occupation, which triggers secular and religious people to carry out suicide attacks. From The World Beyond the Headlines series.
"Moonset on Sunrise Mountain: Narrative, Politics, and the Accession of Kulottunga I Cola"
October 21, 2010 21:30 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by Whitney Cox, Lecturer in Sanskrit, School of Oriental and African Studies.
"The Flood Disaster in Pakistan: Socio-economic Consequences and Potential Geopolitical Ramifications"
October 19, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBImtiaz Gul is the Executive Director of the Centre for Research and Security Studies in Islamabad. He is the author of three books on the ongoing security concerns in South Asia: The Unholy Nexus, The Al-Qaeda Connection, and The Most Dangerous Place. Gul addresses the longer term political and social consequences of the floods in Pakistan of July of this year.
"The Empire and the Birth of Historical Research in India"
September 30, 2010 23:00 - 57 minutes - 75.1 MBDipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Klimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago.
"Elephants, Gods and People: The Cultural History of the Asian Elephants"
May 17, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBRaman Sukumar is the author of three books on the ecology and conservation of elephants, and the recipient of the International Cosmos Prize in 2006. He is presently completing a cultural history of the Asian elephant that will be published in late 2010. Using literary sources and artistic representation of elephants in painting and sculpture, Sukumar's talk traces the changing paradigms in the elephant-human relationship through history, and provides possible ecological explanations for the ...
"Between Globalization and Global Warming"
May 11, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago and David Archer, Professor in the Department of Geophysical Science at the University of Chicago on the global climate crisis. As part of the quarterly Workshop on the Global Environment, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty and geophysicist David Archer meet to discuss human-environmental relationships. Archer served as discussa...
"America's Water Crisis"
May 11, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBRobert Glennon is a nationally-renowned water expert, and the author of Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It (2009). His previous books include the highly-acclaimed Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters (2002). Glennon is the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. Glennon explores potential water futures for the U.S. — one driven by passivity, the other by foresi...
"Non-Eurocentric Historical Geographies of Modern Science: Perspectives from South Asia"
May 07, 2010 18:00 - 59 minutes - 75.1 MBA talk by Kapil Raj, Directeur d'études at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
"The Informal Economy in Mexico"
May 06, 2010 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBSantiago Levy is Vice President for Sector and Knowledge at the Inter-American Development Bank and author of the book Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality and Economic Growth in Mexico. Mr. Levy speaks on the growth of Mexico’s informal economy.
“Situating the Subaltern in South Asian Medical History”
April 17, 2010 21:30 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA keynote address by David Hardiman, History, University of Warwick at the Seventh South Asia Graduate Student Conference. With the support of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS), The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) and The Center for Gender Studies (CGS).
“Impossible Translation: Beyond the Legal Body in Two South Asian Family Courts”
April 17, 2010 21:30 - 49 minutes - 75.1 MBSrimati Basu, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies University of Kentucky on "Impossible Translation: Beyond the Legal Body in Two South Asian Family Courts"
“Language Worlds in South Asia”
April 08, 2010 21:30 - 52 minutes - 75.1 MBA talk by Debjani Ganguly, Head, Humanities Research Center, Australian National University. From the South Asia Seminar.
“Afghanistan and the Future of Peace Operations”
April 08, 2010 20:00 - 50 minutes - 75.1 MBA speech by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO. In his first visit to Chicago as Secretary General, Anders Rasmussen discusses Afghanistan, the lessons learned after eight years, and implications for future operations.
“Asian Carp Invasion: Potential Economic and Ecological Impacts in the Great Lakes”
April 06, 2010 23:30 - 2 hours - 75.1 MBA multi-disciplinary panel, held at the Shedd Aquarium, provided a public examination and discussion of the threat of Asian carp to Chicago and the Great Lakes. Experts in biology, economics and policy shared the most up to date information about how these species threaten the ecology of the Great Lakes, how closing Chicago waterways would affect the regional economy, and the broader implications for the Great Lakes region and environmental management. Cosponsored by the Program on the Global...
“Celling India: The Mobile Phone's Contribution to Capitalism, Democracy and Unsettling Society”
April 01, 2010 21:30 - 40 minutes - 75.1 MBA talk by Robin Jeffrey, Director, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. From the South Asia Seminar.
Panel 3: The Politics of Knowledge in a Global World
March 12, 2010 22:15 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBPanel 3: Uday Singh Mehta, Amherst College; Arjun Appadurai, New York University; Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
Panel 2: The Problem of Historical Difference
March 12, 2010 20:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBPanel 2: Miranda Johnson, University of MIchigan; Bain Attwood, Monash University; Ajay Skaria, University of MInnesota. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
Panel 1: The Idea of Europe
March 12, 2010 17:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBPanel 1: Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna; Sanjay Seth, Goldsmiths, University of London; Faisal Devji, St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
Keynote: “Provincializing the World: Europeans, Indians, Jews (1704)”
March 12, 2010 15:00 - 51 minutes - 75.1 MBA keynote address by Carlo Ginzburg, Scuola Normale di Pisa (partial recording). From the conference 'After Europe: Postcolonial Knowledge in the Age of Globalization'. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
“The Consequences of the Escalation of War in Afghanistan”
March 10, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by political scientist Gilles Dorronsoro, visiting scholar in the Carnegie Endowment's South Asia Program. His research focuses on security and political development in Afghanistan, particularly the role of the International Security Assistance Force, the steps required to achieve a viable government in Kabul, and the conditions necessary for withdrawal scenarios. From the World Beyond the Headlines lecture series. Cosponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the South Asian L...
“The Heuristic Potential of the Dream Register of Tipu Sultan of Mysore (r.1782-99)”
March 04, 2010 22:30 - 52 minutes - 75.1 MBA talk by Kate Brittlebank, Senior Lecturer, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania. From the South Asia Seminar.
“Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty”
March 03, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by journalist and author Roger Thurow. For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the "Green Revolution" succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse. In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought; or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Roger Thurow and Sc...
"The Influence of Shaivism on Pala Buddhism"
March 01, 2010 22:30 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBAlexis G. J. S. Sanderson is an Indologist and fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford. His field is early medieval religion in India and Southeast Asia, focusing on the history of Saivism, its relations with the state, and its influence on Buddhism and Vaishnavism. In the last 26 years, Alexis Sanderson has published over 1,400 pages of articles covering Saiva, Vaishnava, and Buddhist Tantra in South and Southeast Asia.
“Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy”
February 19, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz. The current global financial crisis carries a "made in America" label. In "Freefall", Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up. Drawing on his academic expertise, his years spent shaping policy in the Clinton administration and at the World Bank, and h...
“The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa”
February 05, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by American University professor Deborah Brautigam. Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? This well-timed book provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas. Deborah Brautigam tackles the myths and realities, explaining what the Chinese are doing, how they do it, how much aid they give, and how it all fits into their "going global" s...
“The Stones of Banaras: Conservation and Colonial Bureaucracy in a Small Indian City”
January 28, 2010 22:30 - 52 minutes - 75.1 MBA talk by Michael Dodson, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University. From the South Asia Seminar.
"Teach-in on the Haiti Emergency"
January 20, 2010 02:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBGreg Beckett, Anthropology PhD and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, and Ann Clark, Principal at Nicholas Clark Architects, Ltd, contextualize US-Haitian relations and Port-au-Prince itself, and discuss the nature of Haitian political and social life before the earthquake.
"Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization"
November 18, 2009 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by author and Earth Policy Institute founder Lester Brown. As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B 4....
"International Reactions to the Coup in Honduras"
November 17, 2009 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBRodolfo Pastor is Minister of Culture, Arts and Sports of Honduras, and, since the coup of June 28 that overthrew the government of President Manuel Zelaya, he has also been Visiting Professor of History at Harvard University. Pastor discusses the current political situation of Honduras, the Honduran political system, as well as the upcoming election.
"Special Address:Perspectives from an Amazonian Social Movement"
November 06, 2009 18:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBSpecial Address: Sônia Guajajara, Vice-Coordinator of COIAB: Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira. Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies and the Project on the Global Environment.
"Panel 3 - Science and Technology as a Basis for a New Development Model for the Amazon"
November 06, 2009 18:00 - 3 hours - 75.1 MBPanel 3: Science and Technology as a Basis for a New Development Model for the Amazon Tatiana Sá, Engenheira Agônoma, Diretora-Executiva da Embrapa, Brasília Adalberto Luis Val, Diretor do INPA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM Mauro Barbosa de Almeida, Professor of Anthropology, UNICAMP Bertha Becker, Geógrafa, Professora Emérita da UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Respondent: Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Antropóloga, Professora da Universidade de Chicago
“Invoking Chola and Maratha Pasts in Colonial Thanjavur: King Serfoji II's Reinvention of the Brihadisvara Temple”
November 05, 2009 22:30 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by Indira Viswanathan Peterson, David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies, Mount Holyoke College. From the South Asia Seminar.
"Panel 2 - Social Movements and Chico Mendes' Legacy for the Sustainable Development of the Amazon"
November 05, 2009 18:00 - 2 hours - 75.1 MBPanel 2 - Social Movements and Chico Mendes' Legacy for the Sustainable Development of the Amazon: Mary Allegretti, Antropóloga, Consultora Independente, Curitiba, PR Ane Alencar, Geógrafa, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Brasilia, DF Marianne Schmink, Professor, Director of the Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Ricardo Paes de Barros, Economista, Pesquisador do IPEA - Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Brasilia, DF Respo...
"Panel 1 - Models of Development: An Assessment of the Last 20 Years of Public Policy for the Amazon Region"
November 05, 2009 18:00 - 2 hours - 75.1 MBPanel 1 - Models of Development: An Assessment of the Last 20 Years of Public Policy for the Amazon Region: Roberto Smeraldi, Journalist, Director of Amigos da Terra - Amazônia Brasileira, São Paulo, SP Foster Brown, Pesquisador do Woods Hole Research Center e do Parque Zoobotânico, Universidade do Acre, Rio Branco, AC Phillip M. Fearnside, Ecólogo, Pesquisador do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM Jorge Viana. Engenheiro Florestal, ex Governador do Acre, Rio Branco, AC R...
Opening Remarks
November 05, 2009 18:00 - 19 minutes - 75.1 MBDain Borges, Director, Center for Latin American Studies Mark Hansen, Dean, Social Science Division Ambassador João Almino, Consul General of Brazil in Chicago Marina Silva, Senator, Green Party (from Brazil via video)
"With Immediate Effect: The Events of 1989 Revisited"
November 05, 2009 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MB20th Anniversary Roundtable with the Consuls General of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary and Poland. A discussion concerning the historic events of two decades ago in Central and Eastern Europe, and the paths taken since then - through personal reflections and recollections of how the process developed, the spirit of the movements, the leaders, the political atmosphere, and the ways in which the transition has resonated through the past twenty years. Cosponsored by the Center for...
"The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East"
October 29, 2009 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by New York Times journalist Neil MacFarquhar. His book, "The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday" reveals a cross-section of unsung, dynamic men and women pioneering political and social change. There is the Kuwaiti sex therapist in a leather suit with matching red headscarf, and the Syrian engineer advocating a less political interpretation of the Koran. MacFarquhar interacts with Arabs and Iranians in their every day lives, removed from the violence w...
“What Is a Record? Tamil Scribes in the Polyglot World of Early Colonial Madras”
October 29, 2009 21:30 - 43 minutes - 75.1 MBA talk by Bhavani Raman, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University. From the South Asia Seminar.
"Tropicality, Tropicalism: Forest Resurgence and the Politics of Latin American Conservation" (video)
October 28, 2009 23:00 - 57 minutes - 75.1 MBSusanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, delivers a lecture entitled, "Tropicality, Tropicalism: Forest Resurgence and the Politics of Latin American Conservation"
"Democracy in Nicaragua"
October 21, 2009 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBCarlos Fernando Chamorro is the son of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, editor of the independent daily La Prensa who was assassinated during the Somoza dictatorship. Chamorro is among the nation's most respected TV journalists, and a leading voice for press freedom and the protection of independent journalism in Nicaragua.
"The U.N. Security Council and the Making of the Modern World"
October 08, 2009 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by professor and author David Bosco. From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always provided a space for the five great powers to sit down together. Five to Rule Them All tells the inside story of this remarkable diplomatic creation. Drawing on extensive research, including dozens of ...
“'I Am Who I Am': On Being Nostalgic in Sanskrit”
October 08, 2009 21:30 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by David Shulman, Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies, Department of Comparative Religion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From the South Asia Seminar.
"The Cuban Transition: Imagined and Actual"
October 07, 2009 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBRafael Hernández is the editor of Temas, the leading Cuban magazine in the social sciences and the humanities, which is renowned for its contribution to intellectual controversy on the island. Hernández addresses Cuba's unique social diversity and the emergence of growing inequality that accompanied and has followed the crisis of the 1990s.
“Temples and Conquest in the Deccan, 1296-1500”
October 01, 2009 21:30 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by Richard Eaton, University of Arizona. From the South Asia Seminar.
"A Sky to Fly: Archiving Women's Lives in Words and Images"
June 05, 2009 21:30 - 16 minutes - 75.1 MBA talk by C.S. Lakshmi, founder and Director of Sound & Picture Archive for Research on Women (SPARROW) in Mumbai.
“The Future of the South African Dream: Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, and the South African Elections”
May 26, 2009 23:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBA talk by South African author and journalist Mark Gevisser. Mark Gevisser is currently The Nation's Southern African correspondent. In South Africa, his work has appeared in the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times and many magazines and periodicals. Internationally, he has written widely on South African politics, culture and society, in publications ranging from Vogue and the New York Times to Foreign Affairs and Art in America. Read Mark Gevisser's featured CIS arti...