Lectures tagged "Asian"


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James Bradley: The Imperial Cruise
James Bradley
December 9, 2009
00:50:39
Writer James Bradley discusses his new book, The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War.
End of the Tunnel: Vietnam, a Television History
End of the Tunnel: Vietnam, a Television History
Elizabeth Deane
November 11, 2009
01:00:44
WGBH producers Elizabeth Deane and Judith Vecchione discuss Vietnam: A Television History with a panel of Vietnam experts, following a screening of the program's final episode, "The End of the Tunnel (1973-1975)".
Tariq Ali: The Idea of Communism
Tariq Ali
November 10, 2009
00:59:40
Writer and political activist Tariq Ali discusses the historical implementations and alternate versions of communism and his new book, The Idea of Communism.
The US and China: Economic Allies or Adversaries?
Zachary Karabell
November 3, 2009
01:00:55
Writer Zachary Karabell discusses his new book, Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends On It.
Digital Inclusion
Iqbal Quadir
October 24, 2009
00:32:34
Calestous Juma hosts a talk with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and Iqbar Quadir, who connected millions of the rural poor in Bangladesh through Grameenphone cellphones and now supports MIT students whose start-ups will have a positive impact on developing count
Never Again, Again, Again...
Lane Montgomery
October 6, 2009
00:37:29
Lane Montgomery discusses her photographic essay with text on the six major genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Darfur.
Global Markets in the 2009 Economic Crisis (Part 2)
Jagdish Sheth
June 20, 2009
Jagdish Sheth, professor of marketing at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and David Bruce, professor at J. Mack Robinson College of Business, lead a discussion at the Southern Center for International Studies' Young Professionals annual conference.
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Postcards from China
James Fallows
January 25, 2009
01:27:47
James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, who has been living in China for the last two years, discusses his book, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, with the founder of Harvard University's Global Equity Initiative, Dr. Lincoln Chen.