Videos

Brooklyn College professor Eric Alterman talked about the history of the support for Israel by the United States and Jewish Americans. This virtual event was hosted by UCLA’s Younes and Sora…

Harvard Business School Professor Tsedal Neeley discussed the increase in remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and what has and has not been successful working in a digital environment. …

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was interviewed at a University of California, Los Angeles Center for Immigration Law and Policy virtual discussion on immigratio…

UCLA and the Aspen Institute hosted a discussion on the role of the Latino electorate in the 2020 election. The panel discussed similarities and differences within the Latino community, vote…

The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs hosted a discussion on the history of American gun culture. Speakers included historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, constitutional law Professor Adam Winkl…

Former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes joined the UCLA Center for International Relations for a broad discussion on foreign policy and national security. Mr. Rhodes, who served i…

Retired Los Angeles County Judge Lance Ito talked about the struggles of Japanese Americans forced into remote internment camps during WWII. Judge Ito told stories about his parents, who met…

Kelly Hernandez talked about her book, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965. This interview, conducted on the campus of the University…

Brenda Stevenson talked about her book, What is Slavery?. This interview, part of Book TV’s College Series, took place on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Professor Adam Winkler talked about his forthcoming book, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. This interview, recorded on the UCLA campus, is part of Book TV…

UCLA history professor Joan Waugh talked about her book, The American War: A History of the Civil War Era. This interview, recorded on the campus of UCLA, is part of Book TV’s College Series…

Professor Peter James Hudson talked about his book, Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. This interview, part of Book TV’s College Series, was recorded on the campus …

Devon Carbardo talked about his book, Acting White?: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America. This interview, part of Book TV’s College Series, was recorded on the campus of UCLA.

Professor Benjamin Madley talked about his book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. This interview, part of Book TV’s College Series, w…

Economists, authors, and academics talked about who benefits from globalization and trade policies. During the 2016 presidential campaign, both Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)…

Academics and a German diplomat to the U.S. were speakers at a discussion on the refugee crisis in Europe. They talked about the challenges of quickly taking on and assimilating millions of …

Two academics whose focus is on international migration talked about the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. They talked about the causes of migration from such places as Iraq, Syria, Libya, a…

Peter Whybrow talked about his book The Well-Tuned Brain: Neuroscience and the Life Well Lived , in which he argues that human brains are not wired for modern society, in which long-term thi…

Professor Joan Waugh talked about the rise of baseball as a national activity, spectator event, and business. She described the efforts of baseball club owners to codify the rules of the gam…

Panelists talked about the history and causes of urban riots, such as historic ones in Watts and recent ones in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland. Topics included the differences b…