Audiovisual Resources
This section of the TAS website compiles audiovisual material helping you to extend your background knowledge.
There are full university lectures (from universities such as Yale and Berkeley) on literature, theory and history, guest lectures by key literary critics talking about their key concepts as well as interviews and discussions.
Most of the material is taken from the websites collected under "Links." On these sites, you can find a wealth of further material!
TAS Lectures and Readings
Makarand Paranjape
- Sakontala: An Indian Love Story (May 27, 2010 Staatstheater Saarbrücken)
Farrukh Dhondy reading two stories (Nov. 5, 2009 Theater im Viertel, Saarbrücken)
- "Emailwallahs" (with Laurel Loch)
Vijay Mishra
- 'Rushdie-Wushdie: Salman Rushdie’s Hobson-Jobson' (Nov. 13 2008) [more information here]
Key Critics
Kwame Anthony Appiah
- "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in A World of Strangers" (oct. 29 2008)
Homi K Bhabha
- "On Global Memory" (Apr. 14, 2008)
- "Writing Rights and Responsibilities" (Jan. 31, 2008)
Pierre Bourdieu
- Pierre Carles. Sociology is a Martial Art. C-P Productions, 2001
Dipesh Chakrabarty
- "Indian Modernity: Once Colonial, Now Global" (Sept. 30, 2009)
Jacques Derrida
- Kirby Dick, Amy Kofman. Derrida. Jane Doe Movies, 2002.
Franz Fanon
- Isaac Julien, Marc Nash. Franz Fanon: Black Skin/White Masks. Normal Films, 1996. Part one, part two, part three, part four, part five
Sigmund Freud
- Elisabeth Kapnist dir. "Sigmud Freud. Die Erfindung der Psychoanalyse." Part 1. Die Anfänge Part 2. Der Durchbruch. France 3/ BFC Productions, 1997.
Eric Hobsbawm
- "Marxist Historiography" (Nov. 13, 2004)
Antonio Gramsci
Stephen Greenblatt
- Podcast: Stephen Greenblatt (Oct. 15, 2008)
Stuart Hall
Karl Marx
- "Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey": This open course consists of 13 video lectures of Professor Harvey’s close chapter by chapter reading of Capital, Volume I.
Trinh T. minh-ha
Ashis Nandy/Arjun Appadurai
- "The Romance of the Nation State" Lecture by Nandy followed by a discussion with Arjun Appadurai. FORA TV (Mar. 2007)
Gananath Obeyesekere
- Conversation with History (2003)
Mary Louise Pratt
- "Modernity and Globality or What brought the Virgin of Zapopan to Los Angeles." Ian Fletcher Lecture, University of Arizona (Feb 2001)
Edward Said
- On Orientalism 2/4 3/4 4/4: Interview/Feature with Edward Said explaining his concept of Orientalism
Gayatri C Spivak
- "The Trajectory of the Subaltern in My Work" (Sept 13, 2004)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- "Moving the Center:Language, Culture and Globalization." Lecture, University of California, 2004
Slavoj Zizek
- Susan Charles de Beaulieu. Slavoj Zizek: Ein Portrait. Kordis Produktion, 2005. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
- "First Tragedy, then Farce" The RSA (Amimated)
Literary and Cultural Studies
- (25 Lectures) Paul H. Fry (Yale)
Paul Bloom. "A Person in the World of People: Self and Other" Part I, Part II. Part of. Introduction to Psychology. Open Yale Courses, 2010.
- (19 Lectures) Courtenay Raia (UCLA)
100 Incredible Anthropology Lectures Online
- posted in the Best Colleges Online Blog
"Cinema Diaspora: A Panel Discussion with Mira Nair"
- (Sept. 17 2007) Mira Nair and UC Faculty
Racism: A History. A series by BBC, 2007.
- Episode 1 'The Colour of Money: Colonialism and the Slave Trade'
- Episode 2 'Fatal Impacts: Eugenics, Social Darwinism, and Genocide'
- Episode 3 'A Savage Legacy: Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Racism Today'
Patrick Brantlinger "Cannibals and Missionaries" Ian Fletcher Lecture. Arizona State University. Nov. 2002.
Dante's Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise
- (23 Lectures) Guiseppe Mazzato (Yale)
Links
Internet Archive: Cultural and Academic Films Collection
- This library of academic and cultural films features several sub-collections of documentaries, educational movies, anthropological and artistic films.
- Nobel Laureates have "to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded."
- Educational content on iTunes. Audiovisual material from more than 600 museums and unversities.
- Complete lecture series from leading American universities such as Yale, Stanford, Berkeley etc.
- Introductory courses from all fields, often with additional course material and lecture transcripts.
University of California Television (UCTV)
- Mostly guest lectures by distinguished scholars (e.g. Bhabha, Spivak) and writers (e.g. Soyinka, Fugard).
Webcast: University of Berkeley
- Course lectures, poetry readings and special events
- Conversations with History (highly recommended)
- Lectures and discussions on economy, politics, culture, science and the environment.
- Collection of webcasts of events organized by the Library of Congress: many readings by authors and lectures on literature, history, biography etc.
Web Media from Princeton University
- Lectures held at Princeton University, some from distinguished lecture series.
- Podcasts available on the website (with short abstracts).
MIT Comparative Media Studies: CMS News (Podcasts)
- Subjects relate to the various media we create and consume each day: film, TV, comics, videogames, the internet, and the vast body of emerging media that's being created as you read this. (website)
15 Best Websites for Documentaries
- Links to websites where you can watch documentary movies for free
Restricted Access
Some resources listed here, especially those in the reference and research section, can only be accessed from within the university network.
In order to gain access from outside, students need to install the vpn-client.
Other users can apply for access at the Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek.
Quick Links
Full lecture series, online courses, guest lectures, interviews, symposia and literary readings:
University of California Television
Webcast: University of Berkeley
Conversations with History (Berkeley)
Web Media from Princeton University
MIT Comparative Media Studies: CMS News (Podcasts)
Research, documentaries:

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