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.    (Aired 4-25-10)

This week, we present a poetry reading featuring George Kalogeris, and Melissa Green.  This week’s reading is part of the poetry reading series at Boston University, co-sponsored by the College of General Studies, and the Humanities Foundation.    (Aired 4-18-10)

This week, we have a lecture titled “We Live Beyond Any Tale That We Happen to Enact.”  Our speaker is Galen Strawson from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.  Responding to Professor Strawson is Sir Christopher Ricks from the Editorial Institute at Boston University.  This event was presented [...]

This week, we have a lecture presented by the International History Institute at Boston University, and featuring Professor Emily Rosenberg, University of California, Irvine.  Professor Rosenberg’s lecture is part of a series titled “The Short American Century, 1941-2008: Contrasting Views of the Era of American Dominance.”    (Aired 4-4-10)

This week, we have a lecture presented by the Boston University Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative.  Our speaker is Melanie Kenderdine, Executive Director of the MIT Energy Initiative.    (Aired 3-28-10)

This week, we have a poetry reading in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Threepenny Review, one of the country’s most revered literary magazines.  Our reading is co-sponsored by the Boston University Creative Writing Program, and features five distinguished poets: Frank Bidart, David Ferry, Louise Gluck, Jill McDonough, and Robert Pinsky.  Enjoy!    (Aired 3-21-10)

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.    (Aired: 3-14-10)

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 2/28/10)

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 2-21-10)

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.”  (Aired 2-14-10)