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.
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Radical Insight and Political Activism
Tariq Ali;
Editor, New Left Review: "Islam,
Empire, and the Left," 5/8/03, "Pakistan," 9/26/08
video
Perry
Anderson; Professor of History and Sociology, UCLA; Editor, New
Left Review: "Reflections
on the Left from the Left," 4/27/01
video
Talal Asad;
Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York: "Thinking About Religion, Secularism and Politics," 10/2/08
video
Larry
Brilliant, M.D.; Executive Director, Google.org: "A
Life of Service," 4/17/06
video
Noam Chomsky;
Linguist and Political Activist: "Activism,
Anarchism, and Power," 3/22/02
video
Daniel
Ellsberg; Activist and Strategic Analyst: "Reflections
on the Vietnam War: Presidential Decisions and Public Dissent," 7/29/98
video
Tom
Engelhardt; Editor and Writer: "Taking
Back the Word," 4/23/04
video
Akbar Ganji; Journalist
and Human Rights Activist: "Islam
and Democracy," 8/10/06
video
Galia Golan; Professor in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Herzlia, Israel: "The Israeli Peace Movement and the 2006 Lebanon War," 10/16/06
video
Roya Hakakian;
Author: "Identity, Freedom and Revolution," 03/04/09
David Harvey;
Distinguished Professor of Anthroplogy, City University of New York: "A
Geographer's Perspective on the New American Imperialism," 3/2/04
video
Petra Kelly; Member of the Green Party and Member of
the Bundestag; and Gert Bastian, Retired General and Member of the
Bundestag: "The
European Peace Movement," 10/23/84
David M. Kennedy;
McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus, Stanford University: "Lessons from FDR's New Deal," 02/03/09
Richard
C. Lewontin; Alexander Agassiz Research Professor, Harvard University: "Science
and Politics," 11/20/03
video
Amory Lovins;
Cofounder, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute: "Natural Capitalism," 10/28/08
video
Victor
S. Navasky; Publisher and former Editor of The Nation: "Journals
of Opinion and the Work of Democracy," 9/16/05
video
Michael Pollan;
Knight Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley: "The Politics of Food," 12/16/08
video
Albie Sachs;
Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa: "Suffering,
Survival, and Transformation," 2/2/98
video
Peter
Dale Scott;
Professor Emeritus of English, UC Berkeley: "Wealth,
Empire, and the Future of America," 8/8/07
video
Wole Soyinka;
1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature: "Writing,
Theater Arts, and Political Activism," 4/16/98
video
E.P. Thompson; Historian and Leader of the European
Nuclear Disarmament movement: "Nuclear
Weapons, the Arms Race, and the Peace Movement," 8/83
Studs Terkel;
Performer, Writer and Interviewer: "Keeping
the Faith in Difficult Times," 10/29/03
video
Elizabeth Warren; Leo
Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard University: "Law,
Politics, and the Coming Collapse of the Middle Class," 3/8/07
video
Howard Zinn;
Historian and Activist: "Radical
History," 4/20/01
video
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