This week, Dietrich Neumann, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, speaks on “A Skyscraper for Mussolini: Mario Palanti and Urban Planning for Rome in the 1920s.”  Our lecture is presented by the Graduate Student Art History Association in the Department of Art History at Boston University.

This week, we have a lecture presented by the African Studies Center at Boston University, and titled “Missionaries, Snakes and Survivors: Depictions of Africa with the Poisonwood Bible.”  Our speaker is freelance journalist and travel writer, Thomas Kilduff.

This week, we have a lecture presented by the International History Institute at Boston University.  Our speaker is Harvard University Professor, Jeffrey Frieden.  Professor Frieden’s lecture is titled “The Short American Century, 1941-2008: Contrasting Views of the Era of American Dominance.”  (Aired 1/31/10)

This week, our lecture is presented by the African American Studies Center at Boston University.  Our speaker is John Stauffer, professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University.  Professor Stauffer’s lecture is titled “Douglass and Lincoln in the Age of Obama, and Their Critics.”  (Aired 11-29-09)

Our lecture this week is presented by Boston University’s African American Studies program.  Our speaker is Dr. Peniel Joseph, Professor of History at Tufts University.  Dr. Joseph’s lecture is titled “Dark Days, Bright Nights: from Black Power to Barack Obama.”

This week, we have a lecture is presented by Boston University’s Center for the Study of Asia, and, College of General Studies.  Our speaker is Harvard University Professor, Felix Wemheuer.  Professor Wemheuer’s lecture is titled “Famine and Socialism: Exploring the Cases of China and the Soviet Union.”

This week, we have a lecture presented by the International History Institute at Boston University.  Our speaker is Harvard University Professor, Jeffrey Frieden.  Professor Frieden’s lecture is titled “The Short American Century, 1941-2008: Contrasting Views of the Era of American Dominance.”

This week, we have a reading and discussion presented by Boston University’s Humanities Foundation, Institute for Human Sciences, and Center for International Relations, in cooperation with the literary journal AGNI.  The discussion is titled “Poetry and Place” and features Slovenian poet, Tomaz Salamun, and American poet, David Rivard.  (Aired: 12-6-10)

This week, we have a lecture titled “Charles Darwin on the Races of Man.”  Speaking, is Dr. Joseph Graves, Dean of Biological Sciences at North Carolina A&T University.  Our lecture is co-sponsored by Boston University’s African American Studies program and Department of History, the Humanities Foundation, and the Greater Boston Darwin Centennial.  (Aired 10-25-09)

This week, we have a reading and conversation titled “There Lives the Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things.”  The event was presented by Boston University’s Humanities Foundation, Institute for Human Sciences, and Center for International Relations, in cooperation with the literary journal AGNI.  The speakers were poets, Saskia Hamilton, and Kieron Winn.  (Aired 10-18-09)