Podcasts from the UCLA African Studies Center

Podcasts from public lectures for those interested in learning about Africa, and its related fields of study.

Water Resource Management in Africa from Space (Mekonnen Gebremichael)

African Readiness For Climate Change (April 19 - 23, 2021) “Water Resource Management in Africa from Space,” by Mekonnen Gebremichael, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA.

09-26
20:49

African Readiness For Climate Change 2021 (Welcome Remarks)

African Readiness For Climate Change (April 19 - 23, 2021) Welcome remarks from Dr. Andrew Apter and Ms. Annie de la Bouillerie Goeke.

09-26
13:22

The Challenge of Technology in the Quest for Environmental Justice (Nnimmo Bassey)

African Readiness For Climate Change (April 19 - 23, 2021) “The Challenge of Technology in the Quest for Environmental Justice,” with Nnimmo Bassey (Nigeria), Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation, 2010 Right Livelihood Laureate and one of Time m

09-26
01:06:14

Natalia Molebatsi, South African Poet

Natalia Molebatsi is a Pan-Africanist cultural worker who has been responsible for introducing the work of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison to the post-apartheid generation in South Africa. She has published an award winning book, We Are…A Poetry Anthology,

05-12
59:46

"History on Trial: Mau Mau and the High Court of Justice" Caroline Elkins

The UCLA African Studies Center's Coleman Memorial Lecture will feature Caroline Elkins, Professor of History and African and African American Studies from Harvard University.

05-03
56:17

“Kenyan Muslim Women Leadership in Education” Ousseina Alidou

This lecture is part of the Monday African Studies Center Seminar (MASCS) organized this fall by the graduate students in the Master’s program in African Studies (MAAS).

12-09
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“The Role Played by the 12 Disciples of Nelson Mandela in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle, 1960-1991”

This lecture is part of the Monday African Studies Center Seminar (MASCS) organized this fall by the graduate students in the Master’s program in African Studies (MAAS).

11-16
46:55

"Private Anti-Piracy Navies and Pirate Maritime Security"

Author John-Clark Levin will discuss how the security situation off the Horn of Africa has affected the development of private warships and its role within the wider maritime security industry.

01-15
45:13

"The Missing Middle: Global Development Policy Faces a World Full of Religion"

The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion presents Stephen K. Commins, a lecturer in Urban Planning and the Associate Director of Global Public Affairs for the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA.

11-13
38:00

"Exhibiting the Sacred: The Altar as Museum, the Museum as the Altar"

Professors in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts will present an analysis of African and African diaspora art exhibitions and the transition from art in a religious setting to art in a mu

11-13
01:15:52

"From Ruga-Ruga to Askari: Intersections between African History and Military History"

Based on a revisionist approach to military history, Michelle Moyd uncovers the intentional lives of African colonial conscripts.

11-06
50:11

Imagined Congos: Displays of Early Colonial Hegemony

A podcast of lecture given by Allen F. Roberts of UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/ Dance

06-26
01:16:00

Margaret Bourke-White and Dawn of Apartheid Photo Exhibit

A podcast by Alex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington

06-26
53:52

Africans in China: some key empirical, methodological and theoretical questions

Professor Adams Bodomo, University of Vienna, delivered the Coleman Memorial Lecture held annually in honor and memory of James S. Coleman, a pioneer in the field of African Studies and the founder of the African Studies Center.

06-26
52:44

Choreographic performance and politics in 20th century Urban Senegal

A podcast of a lecture by visiting anthropology professor Hélène Neveu Kringelbach from Oxford University.

06-25
52:10

Hermeneutics and African Philosophy

A podcast of Professor Bekele Gutema, Fulbright Fellow, Howard University and Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University presenting the opening lecture of the Winter 2014 speaker series.

06-25
47:15

Do Catholics See Things Differently? On Photographs and Museum Objects in Missionary Representations of Africa

A podcast of a public lecture by Professor Peter Pels, Leiden University

11-05
58:00

Media Hope and African Capacity

A lecture by Farah Chaudhry and Chip Duncan

05-01
01:11:14

Mamadou Diouf delivers the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: Islam and the Making of the Public Space

Mamadou Diouf is Leitner Family Professor of African Studies. He leads Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs.

04-27
01:12:28

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