This week’s World of Ideas has been preempted due to special live coverage of the war in Iraq.

This week’s World of Ideas has been preempted due to special live coverage of the war in Iraq.

This week’s show featured a lecture by Professor Cedric Robinson titled “Jim Crow, Capitalism, and the Representation of Blacks in Early American Cinema.” His lecture was another in a series presented by the African-American Studies Program at Boston University under the theme of “Blacks and Asians in the Making of the Modern World.”
Professor Robertson discussed [...]

Could different forms of Western liberalism be at the root of recent tensions between the United States and Europe? This week’s show featured the fourth in a series of programs on the current state of American-European relations, presented under the auspices of the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University. Professor of Political Science [...]

On this week’s show, the dean of Boston University’s School of Theology, Robert Neville, spoke on “Toward a Theology of World Religions: The Existential Threats.” Professor Neville delivered this presentation as part of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion lecture series “The Stranger’s Religion: Fascination and Fear.”
In his talk, Neville examined the structure of [...]