Havel at Columbia [staging site]: Events (Video)

At the invitation of President Bollinger, Vaclav Havel arrived at Columbia University October 26th 2006 for a seven-week residency featuring lectures, interviews, conversations, classes, performances, and panels centered on his life and ideas.

Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research Event

Featured Speaker, Wole Soyinka with special guest, President Havel.

12-06
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Theater and Citizenship

Panel discussion moderated by Alisa Solomon with Edward Albee, Israel Horovitz, Anna Deavere Smith and Wallace Shawn. In partnership with Public Theater.

12-04
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Journalism and Citizenship

Panel discussion moderated by Nicholas Lemann with Rebecca MacKinnon, Hugh Hewitt and Sheila Coronel.

11-22
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Film and Citizenship

Panel discussion moderated by Richard Pena with James Schamus, Michael Moore and Rory Kennedy. In partnership with with the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

11-19
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Challenges of New Democracies: A Conversation with President Havel and President Clinton

More than 1,200 students, faculty, staff and local media representatives crowded into Roone Arledge Auditorium on November 15 to hear President Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic and U.S. President Bill Clinton discuss the challenges facing today's emerging democracies, part of an event series being sponsored by the Kraft Family Fund for Interfaith and Intercultural Awareness.

11-15
01:01:15

The Garden Party, a play by Vaclav Havel, directed by Israel Horovitz

Rehearsal footage with director Israel Horovitz and the entire cast including Tom Riis Farrell, Matt Fischel, Jeff Galfer, Dustin Hoffman, Stephanie Jannsen, Robert Klein, Carole Monferdini, Kristine Nielsen, Christopher Randolph, Ben Shenkman, and Kevin Kennison.

11-12
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The Examined Life: A Symposium Dedicated to the Literature and Politics of President Havel

Presentations by Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz, Paul Wilson, Ambassador Martin Palous, Jiri Pehe and Petr Pithart. Organized by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.

11-11
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The Core Contemporary Civilization Coursewide Lecture by President Havel

The Core Contemporary Civilization Coursewide Lecture by Vaclav Havel. Presented by The Center for The Core Curriculum.

11-10
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Literature and Citizenship

Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel prize-winner for Literature, joins Arthur Danto for a discussion on Literature and Citizenship in the Miller Theatre Thursday November 2nd. This is the first event in the Havel at Columbia series.

11-02
01:07:51

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