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The following lectures are a production of UCTV (University of California Television) and are available in Adobe Flash format. Conversations with History interviews are produced and moderated by Harry Kreisler.

Hitchcock Lectures and Interviews

The Systems Architecture of a Bacterial Cell Cycle by Lucy Shapiro
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health by Lucy Shapiro
Lucy Shapiro interview (available Monday, June 22)

The Great Transitions in Evolution: Finding Fossils, Studying Genes, and Bridging Gaps by Neil Shubin
Wings, Legs, and Fins: How Do New Organs Arise in Evolution? by Neil Shubin
Neil Shubin interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Physics and History: Links Between Two Cultures Forged in the Baroque by John Heilbron
Physics and History: Links Between Two Cultures Fractured in Modernity by John Heilbron
John Heilbron interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Calcium, Proteins, Energy, and Life by Chikashi Toyoshima
Chikashi Toyoshima interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Daniel Kahneman interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)
Explorations of the Mind - Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws by Daniel Kahneman
Explorations of the Mind - Well-Being: Living and Thinking About It by Daniel Kahneman

James E. Peebles interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)
What is our Universe Like in the Large and How Did It Get That Way? Exploring the Large-Scale Nature of the Universe by James E. Peebles
What is Our Universe Like in the Large and How Did It Get That Way? Triumphs and Challenges for Modern Cosmology by James E. Peebles

Sir John Gurdon interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)
From Egg to Adult and Back Again: How Does an Egg Make an Organism by Sir John Gurdon
From Egg to Adult and Back Again: Cloning, Stem Cells, and Cell Replacement by Sir John Gurdon

Dudley Herschbach interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)
Intimate Encounters with Molecules: Breaking and Making Chemical Bonds by Dudley Herschbach
Intimate Encounters with Molecules: Taming Molecular Wildness by Dudley Herschbach

Identity and Violence: The Violence of Illusion by Amartya Sen
Identity and Violence: Making Sense of Identity by Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Changes in the Process of Aging During the Twentieth Century: Common Analytical Errors by Robert Fogel
Changes in the Process of Aging During the Twentieth Century: Disparities in Chronic Diseases by Robert Fogel
Robert Fogel interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Holding on to Atoms and Molecules with Lasers: Laser Cooling - From Atomic Clocks to Watching Biomolecules Move by Steven Chu
Holding on to Atoms and Molecules with Lasers: What Can Physics Say About Life? by Steven Chu
Steven Chu interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Gene, Organism and Environment: Bad Metaphors and Good Biology by Richard Lewontin
The Concept of Race: The Confusion of Social and Biological Reality by Richard Lewontin
Richard C. Lewontin interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Atomic and Molecular Astrophysics: The Synthesis of Molecules in the Universe by Alexander Dalgarno
Atomic and Molecular Astrophysics: Comets and the Solar Wind by Alexander Dalgarno
Alexander Dalgarno interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Language and the Mind Revisited - The Biolinguistic Turn by Noam Chomsky
Language and the Mind Revisted - Language and the Rest of the World by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Sir Michael Marmot interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Linus Pauling interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Victor Weisskopf interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Yegor Gaidar interview
(Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Norman Meyers interview
(Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)


Foerster Lectures and Interviews

Thinking about Religion, Belief, and Politics by Talal Asad
Talal Asad interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

God's Problem and Human Solutions: How the Bible Explains Suffering by Bart Ehrman
Bart Ehrman interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Equal Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams and the Roots of a Constitutional Tradition by Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach by Christof Koch
Christof Koch interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Being No One: Consciousness, The Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective by Thomas Metzinger

The Soul of Brutes: A Sixteenth Century Debate by Carlo Ginzburg

Trobriand Rebirth and the Fate of the Soul: An Old Debate Revisited by Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath Obeyesekere interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)


Howison Lectures and Interviews

Thinking and Talking About the Self by John Perry
John Perry interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

What We See by Fred Dretske

The Ethics of Blame by Thomas Scanlon
Thomas Scanlon interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Normativity by Judith Jarvis Thomson

The Meaning of "Ouch" and "Oops" by David Kaplan

Stanley Cavell interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)


Jefferson Lectures and Interviews

David Kennedy interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)
An Invitation to Struggle: The Constitution, the Military, and Political Accountability by David Kennedy
Berkeleyan article about Kennedy lecture (by Barry Bergman)

The Mystery of Guantanamo Bay by Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)
Berkeleyan article about Greenhouse's forum & lecture (by Barry Bergman)

Richard Freeman interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)
The Challenges of Inequality and Global Capitalism to U.S. Democracy by Richard Freeman

The War on Terror and the Rule of Law by Honorable A. Wallace Tashima

Elizabeth Warren interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class: Higher Risks, Lower Rewards, and a Shrinking Safety Net by Elizabeth Warren

Exodus, Black Colonization, and Promised Lands by David Brion Davis

Visual Democracy: Dorothea Lange and the Political Culture of the New Deal by Linda Gordon

Transnational Legal Process after September 11 by Harold Koh
Harold Hongju Koh Interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Abner Mikva interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Alan Simpson interview
(Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

Frank Rhodes interview
(Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

E.J. Dionne Jr. interview
(Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)

James O. Freedman interview
(Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)


Moses Lectures and Interviews

The Humvee and the Apple Tree: Globalization or Americanization by Ken Jowitt

Weinstock Lectures and Interviews

Amory Lovins interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)
Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution by Amory Lovins
Berkeleyan article about Lovins' lecture (by Barry Bergman)

About UCTV

University of California television channel (UCTV) creates a place where the general public can become part of the multitude of activities that constitute the life of a research university: the excitement of discovering new ideas and knowledge; unmeditated dialogue on major intellectual and civic issues; the exploration of scientific concepts and research; medical breakthroughs and practical health information; and the presentation of visual and performing arts.

In UCTV's effort to provide timely and in-depth documentaries, lectures, and research symposiums from the ten UC campuses, they continue to be on the cutting-edge of the merging of television, personal computers, telecommunications, and the Internet.

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Conversations with History Interviews

Harry Kreisler is the creator, executive producer and host of Conversations with History, an interview program which is produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is the executive director. This series was conceived in 1982 by Mr. Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times, and includes over 300 interviews.

In these lively and unedited video interviews, distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work. Guests include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists. The interviews span the globe and include discussion of political, economic, military, legal, cultural, and social issues shaping our world. At the heart of each interview is a focus on individuals and ideas that make a difference.

Learn more about Conversations with History and Harry Kreisler

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