Video duration: 3271 seconds
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Harry Kreisler welcomes Studs Terkel, prize-winning author and radio broadcast personality, on this edition of Conversations with History. Series: "Conversations with History" [2/2004] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8371]
Video duration: 3542 seconds
Global video hits: 2332
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Professor Steve Walt of Harvard University for discussion of the interplay of domestic politics and foreign policy. Series: "Conversations with History" [11/2007] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 13568]
Video duration: 3490 seconds
Global video hits: 33745
On this edition of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler talks with writer Christopher Hitchens. They talk about writing, dissent, and the challenge of taking on cultural icons. Series: "Conversations with History" [8/2002] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 6725]
Video duration: 3435 seconds
Global video hits: 13812
Nobel Laureate Steven Chu in a conversation with UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler about scientific inquiry and the evolution of Chu's own research interests. Series: "Conversations with History" [5/2004] [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 8642]
Video duration: 3548 seconds
Global video hits: 38435
On this edition of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler is joined by linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky to discuss activism, anarchism and the role the United States plays in the world today. Series: "Conversations with History" [6/2002] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 6568]
Video duration: 3100 seconds
Global video hits: 4541
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, in a conversation with host Harry Kreisler, looks back and reflects on the art of writing, U.S. policy toward the Third World during the Cold War, political leadership, and on his intellectual contributions. Series: Conversations with History [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7126]
Video duration: 3498 seconds
Global video hits: 6744
On this edition of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler welcomes social theorist Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, to discuss identity and change in the network society. Series: "Conversations with History" [6/2003] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7234]
Video duration: 3257 seconds
Global video hits: 7699
Distinguished geographer David Harvey joins host Harry Kreisler for a discussion of how the analytic tools of geography and Marxism can contribute to our understanding of the new imperialism. Series: "Conversations with History" [10/2004] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8800]
Video duration: 3490 seconds
Global video hits: 4049
On this episode, UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler talks with Perry Anderson Professor of History and Sociology at UCLA about his intellectual journey and the status of the left. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7123]
Video duration: 3539 seconds
Global video hits: 4756
"Descent into Chaos"
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Pakistani Journalist Ahmed Rashid for a discussion of United States foreign policy and the failure of nation building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.
Recorded June 12, 2008
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Video duration: 3485 seconds
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Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard historian Niall Ferguson for a discussion of his new book The War of the World. Ferguson analzyes the role of ethnic conflict, economic volatility, and the decline of empires in making the twentieth century the most violent one in human history. Series: "Conversations with History" [12/2006] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12082]
Video duration: 3499 seconds
Global video hits: 9703
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, discusses his experiences covering Middle East wars for the last 30 thirty years. Series: "Conversations with History" [2/2007] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 12185]
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