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
Human Rights
Kritaya Archavanitkul; Thai human rights activist:
"Emerging Issues in Human Rights
in Southeast Asia," 10/25/96
Ronald V. Dellums; Former U.S. Representative, Ninth Congressional District,
California: "Legislating
for the People," 2/10/00
Shirin Ebadi; 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: "The
Struggle for Human Rights in Iran," 5/10/06
Stuart E. Eizenstat; Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury: "Politics,
Law, and the Search for 'Imperfect Justice'," 4/30/03
Shari Eppel; Human Rights Activist: "Healing
Community Trauma: Exhumation and Ritual in Zimbabwe," 4/24/01
Tom Farer; Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver: "International
Law and Human Rights," 4/19/00; and "Confronting
Global Terrorism: The Elements of a Liberal Grand Strategy," 4/16/07
(2000) (2007)
Akbar Ganji; Journalist and Human Rights Activist: "Islam
and Democracy," 8/10/06
Justice
Richard J. Goldstone; former Chief Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: "Law
and the Search for Justice," 4/14/97
Philip Gourevitch; staff writer at the New Yorker: "Reporting the Story
of a Genocide," 2/11/00
Anita Gradin;
Swedish legislator and diplomat; former European Commissioner: "Securing
the Rights of Women," 2/28/01
Roy Gutman;
Correspondent, Newsday: "Witness
to Genocide," 4/10/97
Juan Guzmán; Chief Judge, Court of Appeals, Santiago, Chile: "Confronting
Chile's History," 4/17/01
William Haglund; Forensic Anthropologist and Director of the International
Forensice Program of Physicians for Human Rights: "Voices
from the Graves," 9/22/00
Thelton Henderson; U.S. District Judge: "Lessons
of the Civil Rights Movement," 4/28/98
Judith Herman,
M.D.; Psychiatrist and author: "Psychological
Insight and Political Understanding: The Case of Trauma and Recovery," 9/21/00
Brenda Hollis;
Colonel, U.S. Air Force (ret.): "War
Crimes Prosecution," 4/18/01
Chalmers Johnson; President, Japan Policy Research Institute: "The Last
Days of the American Republic,"
3/7/07
Alice Karekezi; Human Rights Activist: "Justice
in Rwanda: The Rights of Women," 10/5/99
Interview en français
Ahmed Kathrada; former political prisoner of Apartheid: "Alongside
Nelson Mandela," 11/8/96
Harold Hongju Koh; Professor of International Law, Yale University: "Transnational
Legal Process and World Order," 10/3/03
Gerald
Nagler; Chair of the Swedish Helsinki Committee
for Human: "The Human Rights
Movement and the Helsinki Process," 4/30/02
Peter Neufeld; Attorney at Law and Co-Director of the Innocence Project;
co-author of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other
Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted: "Passion
for Justice," 4/27/01
Martha C. Nussbaum; Ernst Freund Distinguished Professor of
Law and Ethics, University of Chicago: "Women's
Rights, Religious Freedom, and Liberal Education," 9/14/06
Sadako Ogata; UN High Commissioner for Refugees: "Refugees:
a Multilateral Approach to Humanitarian Crises," 4/1/92; and "Humanitarian
Assistance," 3/17/99
(1999)
Gilles Peress;
photographer, Magnum Photos: "Images,
Reality, and the Curse of History," 4/10/97
Hernán Reyes, M.D.; Medical Coordinator for Detention-Related
Activities, ICRC: "Negotiating
Prisoners' Rights," 12/2/99
David Rieff;
author: "Humanitarianism, the
Human Rights Movement, and U.S. Foreign Policy," 3/11/03
Albie Sachs; Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa: "Suffering,
Survival, and Transformation," 2/2/98
Pierre Sané;
Secretary General, Amnesty International: "Human
Rights Activism," 10/12/98
T.M. Scanlon; Alford
Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity;
Harvard University: "Freedom
of Expression, Tolerance, and Human Rights," 2/20/07
Barry Scheck; Professor of Law, Yeshiva University, and Co-Director of
the Innocence Project: "DNA
and the Criminal Justice System," 7/25/03
John Shattuck; Chief Executive Officer, Kennedy Library Foundation: "Diplomacy
and the Shaping of a Human Rights Agenda," 4/30/97; and "Inching
Forward: Human Rights Policy in the Clinton Administration," 1/13/04
(1997)
Wole Soyinka; 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature: "Writing,
Theater Arts, and Political Activism," 4/16/98
Eric
Stover; Human Rights Activist and writer: "Human
Rights Work," 2/16/99
Sir Brian
Urquhart; Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations: "A
Life in Peace and War," 3/19/96
Jeremy Waldron; University Professor, New York University School of Law: "Dignity, Human Rights and Torture," 04/23/09
Luc
Walleyn; Human Rights Lawyer: "Humanitarian
Law," 4/16/03
Wei Jingsheng;
Human Rights Activist: "The Political
Education of a Chinese Dissident," 11/18/98
Alexander
Yakovlev; architect of glasnost and perestroika: "Shaping
Russia's Transformation: A Leader of Perestroika Looks Back," 11/21/96
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