In May 2014, as part of Holocaust 70,[28] the Hungarian government's official program to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary, Botstein was a guest conductor at the Liszt Academy Concert Centre in Budapest for "Through the Valley of the Shadow," a concert in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.[29] Botstein was interviewed as a guest on The Colbert Report[30] on June 4, 2007[31] and again on October 5, 2010.[32] On August 12, 2009,[33] Botstein appeared on the Charlie Rose Show on PBS to discuss the Al-Quds Bard Partnership,[7] a groundbreaking collaboration in Jerusalem between Bard College and Al-Quds University.