Online Lectures

Please note: The online lecture will be posted by the end of Monday following the live lecture.

Video tapes of the lecture are available on Friday for 24-hour loan at ETC's front desk (05-A610).

For further information, please call 5-2551 (TTY: 5-6295).

The free RealPlayer (available from the Online Learning website) is required to view these lectures.


March 30, 2006 - COLA Global Engagements featuring Frances Moore Lappe [1 Hour 38 Minutes]

April 28, 2005 - Ellen Koskoff - Celebrating Diversity through a Life with Music - Gamelan Lila Muni (Sacred Music of Bali) - Transcript

April 14, 2005 Daniel Pipes - Militant Islam and the War on Terror - Transcript

March 24, 2005 Ali A. Mazrui - Has a Clash of Civilizations Begun?: Islam and the West - Transcript

February 3, 2005 M. Ann Howard - "Water, Water Everywhere: Will You Have a Drop to Drink?" - Transcript

January 20, 2004 Greg Campbell - "The Peril of Ignoring, Small, Regional Conflicts: Sierra Leone, Diamonds and Al Qaeda" Part 1, Part 2, Transcript

December 9, 2004 Simon Ortiz - "Memory, History, and the Present: An Indigenous American View" - BY REQUEST OF THE PRESENTER, THIS LECTURE IS NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE. Videotapes are available at the Media Resource Center (see above).

October 28, 2004 Brian Orend - "Justice After War: Afghanistan and Iraq" - Transcript

October 14, 2004 Panel Discussion - "The Third World within the First World?" - Transcript

September 23, 2004 Panel Discussion - "Globalization, Technology and Work Force Development" - Transcript

April 29, 2004 Carl Atkins - “Protest and Music: A Global View” Part 1, Part 2, Transcript

April 15, 2004 Howard Rheingold - “Mobile Communications, Pervasive Computing, and Collective Action” - Transcript

March 25, 2004 Robert Foster - “Globalization: Soft Drink Perspective” **Lecture had some audio problems mostly during the last 13 minutes**

February 5, 2004 Panel - “Citizen Activists: Global and Local”

January 22, 2004 Paul Grebinger - “Labyrinth of Cocaine: Colombia and the United States in an Age of Drugs” Part 1, Part 2

December 11, 2003 Joan Jacobs Brumberg - “Rethinking the Juvenile Death Penalty: The Case of ‘Kansas Charley’” Part 1, Part 2

October 30, 2003 Murli Sinha - “AIDS Epidemic: A Global Perspective” Part 1, Part 2

October 16, 2003: Rhoda Howard-Hassmann - "What the West Owes Africa: Acknowledgment, Apologies and Compensation(?)" - BY REQUEST OF THE PRESENTER, THIS LECTURE IS NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE. Videotapes are available at the Media Resource Center (see above).

September 25, 2003 Richard Robbins - "Citizen Activism and the Decline of Democracy" Part 1, Part 2

May 1, 2003 Robert D. Manning - "Global Shopping Mall or International Assembly Line?: Economic Integration and Social Divergence"

April 24, 2003 Frances Fox Piven - "Globalization and Poverty: Civic Engagement in an Era of Declining Expectations"

April 3, 2003 George Ritzer - "The Globalization of Nothing: So Many Making So Much Out of So Little"

March 20, 2003 Theodore J. Lowi - "Globalization, Politics, and Democracy: The Quest for Social Justice"

February 6, 2003 John J. LaFalce - Globalization Up or Globalization Down?: Reflections on the Washington Consensus

January 30, 2003 Rochester Executives - Global Meets Local: A Business-Labor Roundtable

January 16, 2003 Martin Murray - Post-Apartheid South Africa: Globalization and the Racial Politics of Place and Space

December 12, 2002 Robert Manning - Global Village or World Empire: Contending Visions and Social Realities of Globalization

October 31, 2002 Saul Landau - Race to the Border: Globalization Collides With Human Rights and the Environment

October 17, 2002 - David Reid and Lori Wallach - Globalization: A Force for Good or Insidious Inheritance

October 4, 2002 - Murli Sinha, Nabil Kaylani, Richard Chu, and Ed Kannyo - Roundtable Discussion

September 19, 2002 - Robert D. Manning - Globalization and Its Discontents

April 11, 2002 - Barber Conable & William Tabb - Uequal Partners?: Citizenship and Corporate Globalization

April 4, 2002 - Carolyn Forche - Against Forgetting: Globalization, Human Rights, and The Voice of Witness

March 21, 2002 - Robert D. Manning - Globalizing the New Economy: Who Benefits From Unequal Development?

February 14, 2002 - Robert D. Manning - A Critique of Neoliberalism: Equitable Development or Global Assembly Line?

February 7, 2002 - Walter F. LaFeber - Americans, Their Technology, and Globalization: A Love/Hate Relationship

January 24, 2002 - Business-Labor Roundtable - Globablization and Social Responsibility: Conflicting or Convergent Objectives?

December 13, 2001 - Saskia Sassen - Globalization or Denationalization? Economy of Policy in a Digital Global Age.

October 25, 2001 - Benjamin R. Barber - Global Democracy, Global Anarchy, or Global Corporatism?

October 11, 2001 - Christopher Chase - Globalization from Below: Towards a Global Commonwealth

September 27, 2001 - Maude Barlow - Can Democracy Survive the Global Economy?

September 20, 2001 - Robert D. Manning - The Globalization Paradigm: International Village or Global Shopping Mall?

May 3, 2001 - Joy Harjo