Lectures & Digital Media Archive

The following list of resources was compiled with the assistance of Middlebury College's Library & Information Services.

Abroad View: Lectures and Interviews (coming soon)

Middlebury College Digital Lecture Archive
An initiative of the Middlebury Library's Special Collections and Cataloging Department. Lectures from the library archives in streaming audio or video include talks by the Dalai Lama, Robert Frost, William Rehnquist, and Henry Steele Commager, among others. Viewing or listening requires RealPlayer software, available for free download here. Take care to choose the free option.

Middlebury College Rohatyn Center for International Affairs Video Archives

University Channel
A collection of public affairs lectures, panels, and events from academic institutions all over the world.

Lecture Archives Search Engine
Search the lecture archives at Middlebury College, the University Channel, WGBH Forum, Harvard Institute of Politics, and MIT World in one combined keyword search.

Audio Interviews from the BBC
From BBC Four, over 150 audio interviews with artists, scientists, political activists and writers, including Gandhi, Gropius, Auden, Warhol and Yeats.

The Earth Institute at Columbia University: Video Archive
Lectures cover a range of issues related to sustainable development, environmental decision-making, and climate change.

Global Nomads Group Educational Videos and Videoconference Archives.

Harvard Institute of Politics: John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Archives
Streaming video of interviews and lectures from Harvard's Institute of Politics, some with printable news summaries.

The Library of Congress Webcasts

MIT World
Large, searchable video archive of significant public lectures at MIT on topics covering technology and engineering as well as politics, culture and current events.

National Gallery of the Spoken Word
An online archive of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century.

Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia presidential recordings

Princeton University Web Media
Archived lectures given between 1998 and the present, covering a wide range of topics.

TED: Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers (explore by theme, talk title, or speaker)

UC Berkeley Archives
One of the largest and oldest audio and video archives;these records of UC Berkeley events include lectures and interviews with Bill Clinton, Carlos Fuentes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Robert Oppenheimer, to name a few.

The WGBH Forum Network is an audio and video streaming Website dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders. These events are hosted by world-class cultural and educational organizations in Boston and beyond.

A World of Ideas
An index to video and audio lectures on academic topics maintained by Darrell Arnold, an editor and translator at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn Germany.