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
Writers on Writing
Mark Danner; Journalist and Staff Writer, the New Yorker: "Being
a Writer," 3/3/99; "Ideas
and Leadership in U.S. Foreign Policy," 5/3/99; "The Red Cross Report, Torture Memos and Political Accountability," 05/8/09
(3/3/99)
Tom Engelhardt; Editor and Writer: "Taking
Back the Word," 4/23/04
John Kenneth Galbraith; Paul M. Warburg Professor Emeritus of Economics, Harvard
University: "Intellectual Journey: Challenging the
Conventional Wisdom," 3/27/86
Philip Gourevitch; staff writer at the New Yorker: "Reporting the Story
of a Genocide," 2/11/00
Roya Hakakian;
Author: "Identity, Freedom and Revolution," 03/04/09
Christopher Hitchens; author of Letters to a Young Contrarian and Unacknowledged
Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere: "A
Dissenting Voice," 4/25/02
Eva Hoffman; Author: "Between
Memory and History: A Writer's Voice," 10/5/00
Haynes Johnson; Journalist and writer: "McCarthyism," 10/28/05
Lewis H.
Lapham; Editor of Harper's Magazine, 1976-2006: "An
Editor's Odyssey," 10/7/06
Maire MacEntee; Irish poet and scholar: "An
Irish Voice of Poetry," 4/4/00
Jane Mayer; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: "How the War on Terror Turned into A War on American Values," 8/8/08
Kenzaburo Oe;
1994 Nobel Laureate in Literature: "Art
and Healing," 4/16/99
Michael B. Oren; Historian and Writer; Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center,
Jerusalem: "War in History and
in Fiction," 11/8/05
Annabel
Patterson; Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University: "The
Power of Words and the Power over Words," 04/10/08
Norman Podhoretz; writer and former Editor in Chief of Commentary: "The
Battle over Ideas," 4/6/99
Michael Pollan;
Knight Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley: "The Politics of Food," 12/16/08
Donald Richie; writer and film critic: "Writing,
Film, and Japan: An Expatriate's View," 9/21/01
Wole Soyinka; 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature: "Writing,
Theater Arts, and Political Activism," 4/16/98
Mark Steyn; Journalist: "America,
Europe, and the Islamic World, " 3/14/07
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
Lawrence
Wright; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: "Al
Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," 11/13/06
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