On this week’s show, Clark University Dean Douglas Little delivered a lecture titled “Innocents Abroad? Building America’s New Empire in the Middle East.” This lecture was the second in a series of weekly lectures hosted by the African American Studies Center at Boston University.
Dean Little pointed out how American culture fosters inaccurate images of the [...]

This week’s show featured excerpts from the installation ceremony of Robert Cummings Neville as new Dean of Marsh Chapel and chaplain of Boston University. Present at the ceremony were Boston University Chancellor John Silber, Provost Dennis Berkey, Executive Vice President Joseph Mercurio and about 100 others.
In his remarks, Neville promised to tackle religion’s “hard questions,” [...]

On this week’s show, Rosanna Warren, Boston University Professor of English and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures discussed the use of pronouns in modern poetry in a lecture titled “Adventures of the “I”: The Poetry of Pronouns”
Professor Warren delivered this lecture as part of the 2003-2004 University Professors Seminar lecture series. This annual seminar provides [...]

Seven distinguished faculty members of the internationally-known Creative Writing Program at Boston University read selections from their own work, some of which is still in progress.
The presenters were: U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, internationally-known poet Geoffrey Hill, professor Roseanna Warren, playwright and Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and novelists Leslie Epstein, Suzanne Kaysen, and [...]