"...with
the wonderful interviewer
Harry Kreisler."
James Fallows,
The Atlantic Online
Harry Kreisler is executive producer and host of the series, which is produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California - Berkeley. Conceived in 1982 by Mr. Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times, Conversations with History includes over 450 interviews.
The Story of Conversations with History
Asian Voices
Khaled Ahmed; Consulting Editor, The Friday
Times, Lahore, Pakistan: "Pakistan
and Islamic Fundamentalism," 2/19/02
video
Tariq Ali; Editor, New
Left Review: "Islam, Empire, and the Left," 5/8/03, "Pakistan," 9/26/08
video
Kritaya
Archavanitkul; Demographer and Human
Rights Activist: "Emerging Issues
in Human Rights in Southeast Asia," 10/26/96
Anson Chan; Chief Secretary of Hong Kong: "Shaping Hong Kong's Future," 1/27/97
video
Nayan Chanda; Director of Publications at
the Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University: "Great
Power Intervention and Regional Stability in Asia," 11/8/01; and, "How Traders, Preachers,
Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization," 5/16/07
video (2001) video (2007)
Cho Soon; Mayer of Seoul, Republic of Korea: "Governing a Global City," 5/25/96
Steven Chu; Nobel Laureate in Physics and
Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University: "A
Scientist's Random Walk," 2/13/04
video
Amy Chua; Professor of Law, Yale University; Author of World on Fire: "The
Myths of Globalization: Markets, Democracy, and Ethnic Hatred," 1/22/04; "The
Moment of Empire," 11/16/07
video (2004) video (2007)
James Fallows;
National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly: "China-US Relations," 9/25/08
video
Sung-Joo Han; Ambassador of the Republic of
Korea: "Diplomacy and International
Politics," 11/30/03
video
Shima Iwashita; actress (with her husband,
film director Masahiro Shinoda): "The
Movie Experience," 2/27/99
Parag
Khanna; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation: "Global
Competition and the Rise of the Second World,” 03/21/08
video
Harold Hongju Koh; Professor of International Law, Yale
University: "Transnational Legal Process
and World Order," 10/3/03
video
Kishore Mahbubani; Dean, Lee Kuan Yee School of Public Policy, Singapore: "America
and the World," 3/12/05; and, ”The
Rise of Asia and the Decline of the West,” 2/22/08
video (2005) video (2008)
Gananath Obeyesekere; Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,
Princeton University: "Understanding
Culture," 3/19/03
video
Kenzaburo Oe; 1994 Nobel Laureate in Literature: "Art
and Healing," 4/16/99
video
Sadako Ogata; UN High Commissioner for Refugees: "Refugees:
a Multilateral Approach to Humanitarian Crises," 4/1/92; and "Humanitarian
Assistance," 3/17/99
Ahmed Rashid;Author and Journalist: "The
Rise of Militant Islam," 3/26/02; and, "Descent into Chaos," 6/12/08
video (2002) video (2008)
Donald Richie; writer and film critic: "Writing,
Film, and Japan: An Expatriate's View," 9/21/01
Ruan Zongze; Vice President, Chinese Institute of International
Studies, Beijing: "China, the
United States, and World Order," 9/23/03
video
Amartya Sen; Lamont University Professor, Harvard University
and 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics: "Reflectons
on Theory in the Social Sciences," 3/4/05
video
Masahiro Shinoda; film director (with his wife, actress
Shima Iwashita): "The
Movie Experience," 2/27/99
Shashi Tharoor; writer and Director of Communications
and Special Projects for the Secretary-General of the UN: "The
Art of Writing; The Work of Diplomacy," 2/8/99
Wei Jingsheng; Human Rights Activist: "The
Political Education of a Chinese Dissident," 11/18/98
video
Zhou Xingbao; Secretary General for the Chinese
National Committee, Council for Security Cooperation in Asia: "Culture,
Globalization, and U.S.-China Relations," 9/24/03
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