Event Recordings
UCLA Conversations With… - Recordings, 2023/2024
After-Lunch Program series co-sponsored by the UCLA Emeriti Association and the UCLA Retirees Association (UCLARA); hosted by Stuart Wolpert, EA program Committee Chair.
- Alan Castel, psychology professor and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging,discussed lessons he has learned from his research and from the personal accounts of older Americans, including John Wooden, UCLA professor Jared Diamond, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Maya Angelou, Warren Buffett, Vin Scully and Bob Newhart.
Post-conversation recording, September 14, 2023 - David Schaberg, professor of Asian languages and cultures, a former dean of the UCLA College Division of Humanities from 2011 to 2022, discusses the role of the humanities in the training of students and the making of societies.
Post-conversation recording, October 12, 2023 - Inna Faliks, professor and head of the piano department at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, performs on the Faculty Club’s Steinway B piano and reads from her new memoir, Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.
Post conversation recording, January 11, 2024
- Christel Aragon, director of UCLA Alumni Travel, and Dolores Dyer, director of travel for the UCLA Retirees Association, answers questions about the UCLA Alumni Travel and UC Retirees Travel programs.
Post conversation recording, March 7, 2024 - Sara Melzer, professor emeritus of French and Francophone studies, speaks about mindfulness and how it can improve people’s relationships, health and lives.
Post conversation recording, March 13, 2024 - Ming Guo, UCLA’s Laurie and Steven C. Gordon Professor of Neurosciences is a professor of neurology, molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the NIH-funded Aging Center, discusses aging and the brain.
Post conversation recording, April 11, 2024 - Christopher Kelty, UCLA Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics and the departments of Information Studies and Anthropology, and director of the Livescu Initiative on Neuro, Narrative and AI, and Daniel Snelson, a UCLA assistant professor of English and design media arts and a writer, editor and archivist discuss the implications of artificial intelligence, including how it may impact creativity, art, culture, education, jobs and more.
Post conversation recording, Thursday, May 30, 2024
Afternoon Programs - Recordings, 2020-
2020/21-2022/23
- Feb 2023 | A Dialogue on the Economy w/ Prof. Ed Leamer and Professor Emeritus Dan Mitchell
- Sept 2022 | Prof. Dana Cuff on the Housing Crisis in LA & California
- June 2022 | Dean Strempel, Music
- April 2022 | Prof. Pamela Munro on Slang at UCLA and Beyond
- April 2022 | Prof. Arch Getty on Russia and Ukraine Past and Future: A Historian’s Perspective
- March 2022 | Music of Thailand Ensemble
- February 2022 | Prof. Romain Wacziarg
- November 2021 | Barbara Ferrer, Director, LA County, Dept.of Public Health
- October 2021 | Alex Ross on Wagnerism
- June 2021 | William Kinderman on Political Or Revolutionary Beethoven
- May 2021 | Adam Nagourney, New York Times, former Los Angeles Bureau Chief
- April 2021 | Prof. Emerita Carole Goldberg on the Tongva
- Feb 2021 | David Hertz on Architecture, Design, Environment
- January 2021 | Assoc. Dean, Music, Arturo O'Farrill –Jazz
- December 2020 | Carolyn Campbell – Journey through Père-Lachaise Cemetery
- November 2020 | Center for the Art of Performance
- October 2020 | UCLA Sustainability
- May 2020 | Ms. Johnese Spisso on UCLA Health System
ERRC: Recordings, 2019-
2019-
Selected:
- UCLA Email Storage, Town Hall, May 17, 2024
- LA Parking, Donald Shoup, Distinguished Research Professor, Urban Planning, UCLA
September 21, 2023, an ERRC program
Campus: UCLA Faculty Research Lectures - Recordings, 2009-2019
2009-
Since 1925 UCLA has honored its most distinguished scholars by selecting them to deliver this special annual lecture.
After Lunch, Quarterly Dinners, and other recordings, 2013-2019
2013-2019
Our highly accomplished speakers include Nobel Prize awardees and many others distinguished UCLA faculty and community leaders. The EA Program Committee selects speakers whose creative endeavors and research they deem interesting to Emeriti across a wide range of disciplines.
- Emeriti Awards, November 20, 2019
- Distinguished Professor Emerita Margaret Kivelson on a Moon-struck physicist
October 10, 2019 - Prof. John Vohs, UCD, on The Eleventh Campus (Emeriti Survey)
Winter Dinner, February 20, 2019 - Prof. D. Roderick Kiewiet, CalTech, on the 2018 Elections
December 6, 2018 - Prof. Teofilo F. Ruiz on Cuban history from the inside and the outside
Fall Dinner, November 14, 2018 - Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director, Climate Resolve, on Climate change in Los Angeles
June 14, 2018 - Prof. Kara Cooney on What can we learn from ancient Egypt?
Spring Dinner, May 9, 2018 - Emeriti Awards, May 9, 2018
- Prof. Anne K. Mellor on Mothering monsters: Shelley's Frankenstein and genetic engineering
February 21, 2018 - Emeriti Association 50th Anniversary Celebration
November 8, 2017 - Prof. Arch Getty on Who Is this Putin and why does he act like that?
October 5, 2017 - Assoc. Vice Chancellor Peter Hendrickson on UCLA Campus Capital Projects
June 8, 2017 - Emeriti Awards, May 10, 2017
- Prof. Michael Allen on Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra
Winter Dinner, February 8, 2017 - Prof. Gerald Kominski on Health care under the Trump Administration
December 14, 2016 - Retired UCLA volleyball coach, Al Scates
Fall Dinner, November 9, 2016 - Prof. John Petrocik, Univ. of Missouri, on 2016 Election
October 13, 2016 - Prof.James Gelvin on Syria, ISIS, and the Future of the Middle East
June 9, 2016 - Emeriti Awards, May 11, 2016
- Assoc. Prof. Anne Rimoin on Viral epidemics
April 12, 2016 - Prof. Dan Treisman on Putin and Russia
March 10, 2016 - Professor Emeritus Daniel J.B. Mitchell on Retirement Issues
UCLA Pre-Retirement Program, February 19, 2016 - Prof. Jaana Juvonen on Teen Cyberbullying
December 10, 2015 - Prof. Steve Clarke on Physiological aging
Fall Dinner, November 4, 2015 - Health Care Facilitator Bridget Sheehan-Watanabe on 2016 Retiree Open Enrollment
November 2, 2015 - Prof. Jerry Nickelsburg on Outlook for the US and California economies
October 8, 2015 - Prof. Adriana Galván on Adolescent brains
June 4, 2015 - Don Catlin on Straight dope: Drugs and sports
Spring Dinner, May 13, 2015 - Emeriti Awards, May 13, 2015
- University Archivist Heather Briston on Archiving of faculty papers and other records
April 10, 2015 - Professor Emeritus Daniel J.B. Mitchell, UCLA Retirement Workshop
April 10, 2015 - Prof. Raymond Knapp on The American musical & disability
April 9, 2015 - Prof. Patricia Ganz on Delivering high-quality cancer care: Can we meet the challenges of a system in crisis?
March 12, 2015 - Prof. Alan Castel on Memory & Aging
December 4, 2014 - Open Enrollment for Retirees
November 14, 2014 - Prof. Willeke Wendrich on Ancient Egypt
June 5, 2014 - Emeriti Awards, business meeting, student poetry readings
Spring Dinner, May 14, 2014 - UCLA opera students present excerpts from, and commentary on, Mozart's Don Giovanni
January 9, 2014 - Prof. Paul Bergman on Lessons from jury trials from Hollywood movies
December 12, 2013 - Prof. Matthew Kahn on Blue skies over China
Fall Dinner, November 20, 2013 - Professor Emeritus Daniel J.B. Mitchell on US & California economic outlook
April 11, 2013