Charlie Kaufman: Screenwriters Lecture

One of modern cinema’s most celebrated writers, Kaufman’s work includes surreal fantasy Being John Malkovich, cerebral sci-fi Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and comedy drama Adaptation. Excerpted from Guru.BAFTA.org

Watch the Charlie Kaufman lecture.

Download a PDF transcript of Kaufman's Lecture.
Read the accompanying program.

Listen to Yesterday's Q&A with Edward Norton in Ward 2

An archived version of Edward Norton's chat with American University students can be found on Ustream.tv.

Edifying and odd streaming video from UC-Berkeley

Stephen Hawking lectures (various years)

Malcolm X interview at UCB, 1963

Voices of Black Panther Women Symposium (date unknown)

Richard Eakins, biology professor who used to dress up in period costume and act the part of famous
scientists (circa 1970s)

Lots of other nifty streamed audio and video linked from the same page.

Mind Online: Streaming video of lectures at the University of Chicago

Errol Morris is among the few Film Studies lecturers in this rich electronic archive of video and audio recordings. In their words, this is "a collection of thought-provoking samples from the University's intellectual life, both past and present."

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MIT World - on-demand video of significant public events at MIT

An extensive set of lectures, events, readings - heavy on the science topics but there's probably something here for everyone. Things that caught my eye included readings by Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Robert Pinsky, Maurice Sendak, and Seamus Heaney. Lectures by Noam Chomsky, Eric Foner, Thomas Friedman, Frank Gehry, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Dean Kamen, Helen Thomas, Howard Zinn and many others on current topics in a broad variety of fields.

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How to Film Sharks and Bears and Live to Tell About It

On Tuesday evening, March 21, AU professor and wildlife filmmaker Chris Palmer will be on campus discussing highlights from his career. The program, part of the 2006 Environmental Film Festival, will be held at 7pm in the Butler Board Room, Mary Graydon Center. Mr. Palmer's enthusiasm and good humor guarantee an evening of entertainment. They expect a crowd so get there early.

A visit from Bernice Johnson Reagon

Bernice Johnson Reagon will be speaking this week at a screening of Sweet Honey In the Rock: Raise Your Voice, a documentary by filmmaker Stanley Nelson. The event, presented by the Center for Social Media and the American University Honors Program, will be at 6:30pm on Thursday, Feb. 23, in the Wechsler Theater in Mary Graydon Center. Dr. Johnson was active in the American Civil Rights Movement and founded the a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Also of note: The Emmy-award-winning PBS program The Songs Are Free, a conversation between Dr. Reagon and Bill Moyers about African-American communal singing, is available for viewing in Media Services, VHS 1878.

A visit from filmmaker Adrian Cowell

One of AU's treasures that everyone should know about is the The Center for Social Media. The Center champions films and filmmakers that bring to light issues of injustice and inequality in society. It's a project of the School of Communication and is directed by faculty member Pat Aufderheide.
Among the events on their current calendar are a couple of appearances by Adrian Cowell during the Environmental Film Festival in the latter half of March. Cowell will be on campus March 20 at 6:30pm in the Wechsler Theater in Mary Graydon Center to screen and discuss his film Banking on Disaster (VHS 760) and on March 22 at 6pm to screen and discuss Finding the Story: From the Amazon to Burma and Back. Other Cowell films you can view in Media Services are The Last of the Hiding Tribes ( VHS 6441-3) and In the Ashes of the Forest (VHS 1675).