Sat, Feb 27, 1999
Conversation with director Masahiro Shinoda and actress Shima Iwashita after they attended the Pacific Film Archive screening of Punishment Island (1966). Mr. Shinoda reveals the theatrical and cinematic influences that made him one of the leading Japanese directors, and Ms. Iwashita comments on how their relationship as husband and wife affect what she become in film.
Wed, Sep 10, 2014
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Svante Pääbo, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, for a discussion of his intellectual journey. Svante Pääbo highlights both the opportunities and obstacles that characterized his 30 year quest to uncover the genome of Neanderthal Man. In the course of his reflections, he elucidates the nature of scientific inquiry and highlights the possible long-term implications of using genetic research to understand the genome of human ancestors and thereby understand the uniqueness of humans. Svante Pääbo was the 2014 Foerster Lecturer at Berkeley.