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
Women Role Models for the New Millennium
Kritaya Archavanitkul; demographer and human rights activist: "Emerging Issues in Human Rights in Southeast Asia," 10/25/96
Hanan Ashrawi;
Palestinian Writer and Political Leader: "A
Palestinian Voice," 4/12/00
Seyla
Benhabib; Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy,
Yale University: "Philosophic
Iterations, Cosmopolitanism, and the 'Right to Rights,'" 3/18/04
Elise Boulding; Peace Activist and Professor Emerita
of Sociology, Dartmouth College: "Peace
Movements, Peace Research, and the Peace Process," 4/1/86
Jocelyne Cesari;
Associate, Middle East Center, Harvard University: "Islam in the West," 12/04/08
Anson Chan;
Chief Secretary, Hong Kong: "Hong Kong's
Future," 1/27/97
Amy Chua;
Professor of Law, Yale; author, World on Fire: "The
Myths of Globalization: Markets, Democracy, and Ethnic Hatred," 1/22/04
Pamela Constable; Deputy Foreign Editor, The Washington Post: "Reporting
from South Asia," 3/29/05; and as Foreign
Correspondent, The Washington Post: ”Afghanistan
and Pakistan,” 04/03/08
(2008)
Shirin
Ebadi; 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: "The
Struggle for Human Rights in Iran," 5/10/06
Shari Eppel;
Human Rights Activist: "Healing
Community Trauma: Exhumation and Ritual in Zimbabwe," 4/24/01
Wendy Ewald;
Photographer, Author, Educator: "The
Innocent Eye," 4/2/98
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
Anita Gradin;
Swedish legislator and diplomat; former European Commissioner: "Securing
the Rights of Women," 2/28/01
Roya Hakakian;
Author: "Identity, Freedom and Revolution," 03/04/09
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Eva Harris;
Assistant Professor of Public Health, UC Berkeley: "Making
Science Accessible," 3/15/01
Amira Hass;
Columnist, Haaretz: "Occupation
and Terrorism," 10/24/03
Judith Herman,
M.D.; Psychiatrist and author: "Psychological
Insight and Political Understanding: The Case of Trauma and Recovery," 9/21/00
Eva Hoffman;
Author: "Between Memory and
History: A Writer's Voice," 10/5/00
Brenda Hollis;
Colonel, U.S. Air Force (ret.): "War
Crimes Prosecution," 4/18/01
Shima Iwashita; actress (with her husband, film director
Masahiro Shinoda): "The
Movie Experience," 2/27/99
A. Elizabeth
Jones; Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia: "U.S.
Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change after 9/11": 10/22/02
Alice Karekezi;
Human Rights Activist: "Justice
in Rwanda: The Rights of Women," 10/5/99
Petra Kelly, Member of the Green Party and Member of
the Bundestag (with Gert Bastian): "The
European Peace Movement," 10/23/84
Maire
MacEntee; Irish poet and scholar: "An
Irish Voice of Poetry," 4/4/00
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)
Annabel
Patterson; Sterling Professor Emeritus of English,
Yale University: "The
Power of Words and the Power over Words," 04/10/08
(2008)
Louise Richardson; Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study at Harvard University: "What
Terrorists Want ," 9/19/07
Ruth Rosen;
historian and columnist: "The
Women's Movement in Historical Perspective," 12/5/01
Nancy
Scheper-Hughes; Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley: "Studying
the Human Condition: Habits of a Militant Anthropologist," 12/14/99
Joan Wallach Scott;
Professor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study: "The Politics of the Veil," 02/26/09
Lucy Shapiro; Professor of Cancer Research, Stanford: "A Microbiologist's Intellectual Odyssey," 04/2/09
Jennifer Sims;
Former Coordinator for Intelligence Resources and Planning, Department
of State: "Intelligence and National
Security in a Democracy," 2/11/02
Nemat Shafik;
Vice President, The World Bank: "The
World Bank and Private Sector Development," 11/13/01
Susan Shirk;
Professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies,
UCSD; and China specialist: "China
and the United States," 11/8/01 and "Domestic
Politics and International Behavior: The Case of China and the U.S.," 6/28/07
(2001) (2007)
Laura D'Andrea
Tyson; UCB Professor of Economics & Business and former Chair,
Council of Economic Advisors: "An
Economist Goes to Washington," 1/14/98
Elizabeth Warren; Leo
Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard University: "Law,
Politics, and the Coming Collapse of the Middle Class," 3/8/07
See also: Globetrotter's special feature on Women's Rights and International Gender Studies Resources.
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