Weimar’s Others: Art History, Alterity and Regionalism in Inter-War Germany
A panel discussion with Dr Nina Lübbren, Professor Dorothy Price and Dr. Camilla Smith on what Weimar culture has contributed to the discipline of art history, ...
CourtauldInstitute
History of the Jews - summary from 750 BC to Israel-Palestine conflict
Let's look at a map and retrace the history and major events of the Jewish people throughout the world. Part two of this video is titled "The Israeli-Palestinian ...
Geo History
Weak Messianism: Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project
Alexander Gelley, Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, talks about his book on Walter Benjamin, with particular focus on Benjamin's conception of ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Waterloo: Causes, Courses and Consequences - Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA
On the 200th anniversary of the battle, Professor Sir Richard Evans discusses the Battle of Waterloo, and places it in its historical context with proper credit given ...
Gresham College
1941: The Year Germany Lost the War
Andrew Nagorski discussed his new book, "1941: The Year Germany Lost the War," where he describes how Hitler's miscalculations and policy of terror ...
Library of Congress
6. Guest Lecture by Andrew Goldstone
The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) In this guest lecture, Teaching Fellow Andrew Goldstone provides us with some key concepts for understanding ...
YaleCourses
19. The Peloponnesian War, Part II
Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205) In this lecture, Professor Kagan focuses on the causes of the Peloponnesian War and the possible motivations ...
YaleCourses
Reasons for Hope - Learning From the Germans, December 4, 2019
Reasons for Hope - Presidential Lecture Series of Central European University (CEU), December 4, 2019. A lecture by Susan Neiman / Director of the Einstein ...
Central European University
Frank B. Wilderson III | Afropessimism
Recorded April 28, 2020 Frank B. Wilderson III spent more than five years in South Africa, where he was one of two Americans elected to the African National ...
Author Events
Niall Ferguson on Kissinger the Idealist
Recorded on October 7, 2015 - Niall Ferguson discusses the first half of Henry Kissinger's life, beginning with his being a young boy in Germany to becoming an ...
HooverInstitution
Africans & African-Americans in Germany
A discussion on the pluralistic and multifaceted presence of Africa in Germany with visiting Fulbright Scholar, Magueye Kasse. Speaker Biography: A Fulbright ...
Library of Congress
From Kaiser Wilhelm to Chancellor Merkel. The German Question on the European Stage
Speaker(s): Professor Andreas Rödder Recorded on 7 November 2012 in New Theatre, East Building. mp3 podcast available here: ...
LSE
Mladen Dolar. Oedipus Revisited. 2018
http://www.egs.edu Mladen Dolar, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas-Fee, Switzerland. June 20th, 2018. Public open ...
European Graduate School Video Lectures
Joseph Stalin: Waiting For Hitler (Part 2)
Did you miss part one? Listen to part one of the episode here https://www.hoover.org/research/why-does-joseph-stalin-matter Recorded on January 25, 2018.
HooverInstitution
Q&A with Margaret MacMillan
Margaret MacMillan talked about her historical narrative, "The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914", in which she describes in detail the assassination in ...
C-SPAN
Why China Will Not Become the Dominant Power in Asia
Public Lecture by Emeritus Professor Paul Dibb and Adjunct Associate Professor John Lee. The belief that China will soon become the dominant power in Asia ...
ANU TV
Peter Pomerantsev, Prokhorov Lecture "Propaganda and the war against reality"
Peter Pomerantsev delivers Prokhorov Lecture "Propaganda and the war against reality", introduced by Henk de Berg (The University of Sheffield). 3 March ...
The University of Sheffield
Rick Atkinson: 2019 National Book Festival
Rick Atkinson discussed "The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777" at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book ...
Library of Congress
Salman Rushdie Opening Keynote of the Gabriel García Márquez Symposium
The University of Texas at Austin's LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and ...
The University of Texas at Austin
Russia and Iran in the Qajar Period: Uneasy Neighbors
May 23, 2019 Speaker: Rudi Matthee Rudi Matthee looks at state and non-state actors and argues that Iran's relationship with Russia in the Qajar period was far ...
Stanford Iranian Studies Program
The Balfour Declaration: Palestine, Israel and Britain One Hundred Years on
This November marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration – a promise that immeasurably altered the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East and one ...
Chatham House
Writing in Exile: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan
As part of our 30th Anniversary celebration, CHF is revisiting and re-envisioning some of the themes, presenters and ideas from previous Festivals. In 2005 we ...
Chicago Humanities Festival
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor
Journalist and celebrity biographer Andrew Morton presents a talk on his latest book, Wallis in Love, that chronicles the tumultuous and controversial ...
WGBHForum
The Great Divide: The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation
The Great Divide: The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation Thomas Fleming examines how the differing characters and ...
US National Archives
Kaiser Wilhelm II - The Last German Emperor I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Germany's last emperor, was born in Potsdam in 1859, the son of Frederick III. and Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria. Wilhelm ...
The Great War
Robert Harris on An Officer and a Spy
Our Fiction Book of the Month is Robert Harris' An Officer and a Spy - a fictionalised retelling of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. Watch here as he discusses the book ...
Waterstones
The Jew as Migrant: From Theory to Poetry
On February 25, Vivian Liska, Professor of German literature and director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, delivered the ...
Harvard Divinity School
"The Anxiety of Influence: Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar"
Martin-Buber-Vorlesung zur jüdischen Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie am 11. Juni 2018, 18 Uhr c.t. im Hörsaalzentrum HZ 6 auf dem Campus Westend der ...
Normative Orders
Kurt Jooss in Cambridge and German '"Tanztheater" in Britian. By Marion Kant
Day 1: Cambridge: City of Scholars, City of Reguge 1930-1948 --- The British rescue of scholars and scientists from Fascist Europe in the 1930s and 1940s ...
Trinity College, Cambridge
Joseph Stalin, Leader of the Soviet Union (1878-1953)
Please consider supporting our videos on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/simplehistory Copyright: DO NOT reupload our content on Youtube or other social ...
Simple History
The Frankfurt School: WTF? Horkheimer, Adorno and Critical Theory Explained
The Frankfurt School get mentioned a lot on this website. Alongside being celebrated for their contributions to philosophy, sociology and political science, ...
Tom Nicholas
The Air War Over the B.E.F. – An Interview with James Holland
The miracle of Dunkirk formed the backdrop of our partnership with Warner Bros. for Christopher Nolan's World War II action thriller, DUNKIRK. Want to join?
World of Warplanes
Launch of the New University in Exile Consortium | The New School
Presented by the Center for Public Scholarship (CPS). We are living at a time when scholars around the world are under attack, just as when the original ...
The New School
World War II - summary of the deadliest conflict in history
This video is a summary of the main stages of the Second World War. Let's retrace on a map the origins, course and consequences of the deadliest war in history ...
Geo History
The Spy Who Went Into The Cold (Soviet Spy Documentary) | Timeline
Check out our new website for more incredible history documentaries: HD and ad-free. http://bit.ly/2O6zUsK Documentary exploring the murky circumstances ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
Bismarck's Unification of Germany 1864-1871 - Sir Richard Evans
In three short, sharp military conflicts, the Kingdom of Prussia, led by Otto von Bismarck, defeated Denmark, Austria and France to create the new German ...
Nathan Watson
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
On Tuesday, October 16, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a book discussion for A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War ...
WoodrowWilsonCenter
Marx in London
5th May is the birthday of Karl Marx, the greatest revolutionary thinker of all time. He was born in 1818 in Trier in Germany. However, Marx spent most of his adult ...
Socialist Appeal
Empire: From Conquest to Control - Professor Richard J Evans FBA
From the 1880s through to the First World War, European empires slowly imposed their control on the territories that in many cases existed merely on paper.
Gresham College
An Evening with Elie Wiesel
Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom and the rank of Grand Officer in the French Legion of Honor, Elie Wiesel is the author of more ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Batman Begins - The Will to Act (Training Scene HD)
It's not who we are but what we do that defines us.
Christian Bates
This Is Neoliberalism ▶︎ Hayek and the Mont Pelerin Society II: 1939 - 1950 (Part 4)
If you've ever wanted to understand what neoliberalism is, this is the series for you. In 1939, a fragile world which had just begun to climb out of the depths of ...
BarakalypseNow
