Human Rights

T.M. Scanlon: Freedom of Expression, Tolerance, and Human Rights

T.M. Scanlon
2007

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard philosophy professor T.M. Scanlon for a discussion of freedom of expression, tolerance, and human rights.

Key Words: Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Berkeley Graduate Lecturers, Principles.

Kenzaburo Oe: Art and Healing

Kenzaburo Oe
1999

UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler in conversation with Kenzaburo Oe who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. Oe's art moves from the personal to the political, exploring how the individual, in confronting life's tragedies overcomes humiliation and shame to "get on with life," and in so doing, finds personal dignity and a renewed sense of his responsibility to his fellow man

KEYWORDS: Nobel Laureates, Japan, Healing.

Judith Herman: Psychological Insight and Political Understanding: The Case of Trauma and Recovery

Judith Herman
2000

Dr. Judith Lewis Herman, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, and a pioneer in the study of post-traumatic stress disorder and the sexual abuse of women and children, joins UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler on this edition of Conversations with History,

KEYWORDS: Psychiatry, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrom, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysis, Healing

Judge Shelton Henderson: Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement

Judge Shelton Henderson
1998

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Judge Thelton Henderson for a discussion of the U.S. civil rights movement and its implications for international law.

KEYWORDS: Civil Rights, Judges

Juan Guzman: Confronting Chile's History

Juan Guzman
2001

UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler and Juan Guzman, Chief judge, Court of Appeals, Santiago, Chile, discuss human rights and the Chilean justice system.

KEYWORDS: Chile

Stuart E. Eizenstat: Politics, Law, and the Search for 'Imperfect Justice

Stuart E. Eizenstat
2003

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes distinguished public servant Stuart E. Eizenstat for a discussion of his career in politics and law and his new book, "Imperfect Justice," an account of his work as the President's envoy to solve the conundrum of reparations for Holocaust survivors.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Eizenstat/

Key Words: Law, International Law, U.S. Presidents, Human Rights, Reparations, Justice, Presidents

Shirin Ebadi: The Struggle for Human Rights in Iran

Shirin Ebadi
2006

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi for a discussion of her remarkable odyssey as a human rights lawyer in Iran under the rule of the mullahs. She discusses the effects of revolutionary change in Iran, on her career as a lawyer, her role as a mother, and her work as an advocate and crusader for the rights of children, women, and victims of political oppression and religious intolerance. The interview was conducted in English and Farsi. The interpreter is Banafsheh Keynoush.

...

Shari Eppel: Healing Community Trauma: Exhumation and Ritual in Zimbabwe

Shari Eppel
2001

UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler interviews Shari Eppel, human rights activist and Director of the Matebeland Chapter of the Amani trust in Zimbabwe.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Eppel/eppel-con0.html

Key Words: Human Rights

Seyla Benhabib: Philosophic Iterations, Cosmopolitanism, and the 'Right to Rights'

Seyla Benhabib
2004

Yale political theorist Seyla Benhabib is UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler's guest in a discussion of how political theory can further our understanding of globalization and its impact on the struggle for human rights.

Key Words: Theory, Human Rights, Cosmopolitanism, Globalization, Philosophers, International Law, Identity, Women Trailblazers, Political Scientists

Samantha Power: Chasing the Flame

Samantha Power
2008

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard Professor Samantha Power for a discussion of her new book, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World." The conversation focuses on the lessons of De Mello's life for understanding the challenges confronting world order in the 21st century.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people8/Power/power-con0.html

Key Words: Law, United Nations, Diplomacy, Humanitarian...