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CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [video] — 167 episodes
“Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the U.S. and Started Prospering” (video)
“All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals” (video)
"Climate Change & the International Negotiations" (video)
"Venezuela Speaks!" (video)
“Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It” (video)
"International Reactions to the Coup in Honduras" (video)
"The Flood Disaster in Pakistan: Socio-economic Consequences and Potential Geopolitical Ramifications" (video)
"Elephants, Gods and People: The Cultural History of the Asian Elephants" (video)
"America's Water Crisis" (video)
"Between Globalization and Global Warming" (video)
"The Informal Economy in Mexico" (video)
“Afghanistan and the Future of Peace Operations” (video)
“Asian Carp Invasion: Potential Economic and Ecological Impacts in the Great Lakes” (video)
“The Consequences of the Escalation of War in Afghanistan” (video)
“Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty” (video)
“Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy” (video)
“The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa” (video)
"Teach-in on the Haiti Emergency" (video)
"Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization" (video)
"Panel 3 - Science and Technology as a Basis for a New Development Model for the Amazonn" (video)
"Special Address:Perspectives from an Amazonian Social Movement" (video)
"Panel 1 - Models of Development: An Assessment of the Last 20 Years of Public Policy for the Amazon Region" (video)
"Panel 2 - Social Movements and Chico Mendes' Legacy for the Sustainable Development of the Amazon" (video)
Opening Remarks (video)
"With Immediate Effect: The Events of 1989 Revisited" (video)
"The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East" (video)
"Tropicality, Tropicalism: Forest Resurgence and the Politics of Latin American Conservation" (video)
"Democracy in Nicaragua" (video)
"The U.N. Security Council and the Making of the Modern World" (video)
"The Cuban Transition: Imagined and Actual" (video)
“The Future of the South African Dream: Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, and the South African Elections” (video)
“Reconceptualizing the Question: Intervention Strategies” (video)
Alash Ensemble Concert (video)
"Recent Developments in Indonesia's Forests: Revival, Resurgence, or Business as Usual?" (video)
"Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East" (video)
"Mexican Oil and Gas Policies" (video)
"Dignity and Defiance, Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization" (video)
"Music and Dance Rhythms from the Balkans" (video)
"Challenges in Latin America: The Importance of Increased Economic and Political Integration" (video)
"Crime and Responsibility: War, Indiscriminate Bombing, and Mass Killing" (video)
"The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do to Stop It" (video)
"Terror in Mumbai: Reflections on the Aftermath" (video)
"The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power" (video)
"Challenges for the New Administration in Iraq and Afghanistan" (video)
"India: The Emerging Giant" (video)
"Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness" (video)
"Taiwan's New Approach: Opportunities and Challenges for President Ma Ying-jeou's Government" (video)
"The U.S. and R.O.C.: A Fresh Start" (video)
"Putin's Labyrinth: What Russia Won in Georgia; Why the U.S. Will Continue to Lose" (video)
"Hugo Chavez y la Realidad Venezolana de Hoy" (video)
"Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power" (video)
"Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia" (video)
"Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror" (video)
"Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War" (video)
PGE Distinguished Lecture: "Is Development Sustainable? Not Even Close" (video)
"Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making" (video)
"Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (video)
"The Next Great Clash" (video)
"Muslim Peace Building in Conflict Regions of Southeast Asia" (video)
Genocide Conference Panel 3: “Confronting Darfur" (video)
Genocide Conference Panel 2: “Prevention and Response" (video)
Genocide Conference Panel 1: “Defining the 'Crime without a Name'" (video)
Francis Deng: Genocide Conference Keynote Address (video)
Roksonaki Concert (video)
"The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order" (video)
"The Closing of the ICTY and its Effect on Justice and Accountability in the Former Yugoslavia (video)"
"The Sixth Anniversary of the Gujarat Riots" (video)
Displacement Week: "Forum on the University of Chicago and Hyde Park/Kenwood/Woodlawn" (video)
"One Hundred Years, One Hundred Voices" (video)
Displacement Week: "The Effects of Gentrification on Chicago's Communities" (video)
Displacement Week: "Chicago and the 2016 Olympics" (video)
"Immigrant Organizations in the U.S.: Opportunities and Challenges" (video)
"Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy" (video)
"Poverty and Income Inequality in Brazil" (video)
"New Partnership Paradoxes in U.S.-China Relations" (video)
"Cows, Cars and Cycle-Rickshaws: The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi" (video)
"Human Rights in Mexico: Inside the Labyrinth of Drugs, Elections and Billionaires" (video)
"The Mind of the Market" (video)
"China's Brave New World and Other Tales for Global Times" (video)
"The Oil and Glory" (video)
"The Talibanization of South Asia: Can it Be Stopped?" (video)
"Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq" (video)
"Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror" (video)
"In Defense of Academic Freedom" (video)
"Bunraku: A Look into the World of Japanese Puppetry" (video)
"Legal Defense and Human Rights in Russia" (video)
"Time and the Sacred" (video)
"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" (video)
Chicago Humanities Festival: Wangari Maathai (video)
"Indigenous Rights: The Case of Chiapas" (video)
“Democracy, Governance, and War in Oil Exporting Nations” (video)
"Petroleum Technology Presentation" (video)
"Japanese Education and Society in Crisis" (video)
"The Modern Human Rights Movement in Mexico" (video)
"The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor" (video)
"The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future" (video)
"Colonialism, Militarism, and the Political Economy of Transracial Adoption" (video)
2007 COSAL: Prose Reading: Salma (video)
2007 COSAL: Roundtable (video)
2007 COSAL: Keynote Address (video)
2007 COSAL: Presentations (video)
2007 COSAL: Remembrance of Norman Cutler & Poetry Reading: Salma (video)
"(Questions) History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age" (video)
"Session 2 (Boundaries) - History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age" (video)
"Session 1 (Politics) - History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age" (video)
"U.S.-Cuban Academic Relations Part II: Roundtable Discussion on U.S.-Cuban Academic Exchange" (video)
"U.S.-Cuban Academic Relations Part I: The Politics of U.S.-Cuban Exchanges" (video)
"The Fifteen-Woman Lawsuit Opposing the Self-Defense Forces in Iraq" (video)
"Labor Rights: The Case of Ciudad Juarez" (video)
"Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way" (video)
"Q&A with Director Hitomi Kamanaka" (video)
"Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America" (video)
"Militarization of U.S. Foreign Relations with Latin America: Prospects for Change" (video)
"Poetry Reading by Yevgeny Yevtushenko" (video)
"The Current Security and Economic Situation on the Korean Peninsula" (video)
"Truth, Lies, and Duct Tape" (video)
"The Rise and Fall of the Myth of the Mexican Revolution" (video)
"Rubber Tit: A Joint Performance by Performance Artist Tari Ito and Jazz Saxophonist MASA"
“Baltimore Drowning: A Slavic Microhistory of Global Proportions" (video)
"Why I Went to Iraq…Three Years Later"
"Postwar Japan on the Brink: Militarism, Colonialism, Yasukuni Shrine"
"Environmental Challenges Across Asia - Q & A"
"Ecology, Human Rights, and Large Dam Projects in South Asia"
"Environmental Degradation and Deforestation in Thailand and Cambodia"
"Environmental Disaster in the Marshes of Southern Iraq"
"Collateral Damage: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century" (video)
"Reflections on Argentina" - Session 3 of "Poverty & Growth: Reflections on Latin America" (video)
"An Evening of Russian Music with the University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra" (video)
"Ending Global Poverty" (video)
"Islam in America: A Conversation with Paul Barrett and Umar Abd-Allah" (video)
"Growth, Poverty and Economic Development" - Session 2 of "Poverty & Growth: Reflections on Latin America" (video)
"Growth: Evidence and Sources" - Session 1 of "Poverty & Growth: Reflections on Latin America" (video)
"Nicaraguan Presidential Elections: Prospects for the Region" (video)
"Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran" (video)
"New Writing from the Balkans" (video)
"Human Rights and the Arts: Guantanamo in the Theater" (video)
"Mexico's 2006 Presidential Elections and the Fragility of Democratic Institutions"
Symposium: One Hundred Years of All-India Muslim League - "Shibli and Early Years of Muslim League" (video)
Symposium: One Hundred Years of All-India Muslim League - "Law, Community and Society: Writing the Histories of Muslim League" (video)
Symposium: One Hundred Years of All-India Muslim League - Keynote Address: "A Sentimental Essay in Three Scenes - With An Epilogue" (video)
"Youth in Low-Income Communities in Rio de Janeiro: Education and Job Prospects" (video)
"Youth Civic Engagement, A Three City Study: Chicago, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro" (video)
Honoree: Dr.Harold Richman (video)
Keynote Address by Irene Rizzini (video)
"Mexico's 2006 Presidential Elections and Challenges for the New Government" (video)
"Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico" (video)
"Monsters to Destroy: Bush's War on Terror and Sin" (video)
"Right vs. Left & the Newborn Mexican Democracy: Can the the Three Survive?" (video)
"Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq" (video)
"Infections, Transmissions, Cultures: the AIDS Scandals of 1990s Japan and the Genesis of 'J-Horror'" (video)
"Local and Global Public Health Links: Preparation for an Influenza Pandemic" (video)
"The Cholera Pandemic and 19th Century Japanese Culture" (video)
"'Virgin Soil' Epidemics and Demographic Collapse in the Americas" (video)
"DPT - From Epidemics to Immunizations a Modern Success Story" (video)
"Black Death in the Middle East and Europe" (video)
"Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity: The Example of Ancient Mesopotamia" (video)
"Constructing a North American Community" (video)
"The Weakness of the State in Latin America" (video)
"NAFTA & Mexico: Ten Years Later" (video)
"Venezuela: A Proposed Social Charter of the Americas" (video)
"Mexico: Problems of a New Democracy" (video)
Latin American Business Conference: "Sustained Growth in Latin America: Key Lessons From Chile" (video)
Latin American Business Conference: "Argentina: Development, Outlook, Opportunities" (video)
Latin American Business Conference: "Managing Growth: Uncertainty in Latin America" (video)
"Consolidating Democracy in Mexico: Adapting and Reforming Institutions for Democracy" (video)
"Consolidating Democracy in Mexico: Keynote Address" (video)
"The 'Urban' in International Economic Development: Lessons from a Colombian City" (video)