This week, we have a lecture presented by Boston University’s Institute for Human Sciences and the Boston University Humanities Foundation, in cooperation with the literary journal AGNI.  The speaker is Bernhard Schlink, professor of public law at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and author of the international best-selling novel The Reader.  Professor Schlink’s lecture is [...]

This week, we have a lecture presented by the African American Studies Program at Boston University.   The speaker is visiting scholar Harcourt Fuller.   Mr. Fuller’s lecture is titled “Slavery and Abolition in Peru.”
Our speaker is introduced by Linda Heywood, Director of Boston University’s African American Studies Program.   (aired 12-14-08 and 2-1-09)

This week, we have a lecture presented by the Program in Scripture and the Arts in the Department of Religion at Boston University.  Our speaker is Christopher Ricks, co-director of the Editorial Institute, and Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, and, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.  Professor Ricks’s lecture is titled “Faith [...]

This week, we rebroadcast a lecture presented by the Program in Scripture and the Arts in the Department of Religion at Boston University.  Our speaker is Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University.  Professor Hamburger’s lecture is titled “Openings.”
Introducing our speaker is Department of Religion chair, Deeana Klepper.  (previously [...]