Students, faculty, and members of the community gathered at Boston University, where Martin Luther King, Jr. received his PhD from the School of Theology in 1953, for the school’s 19th annual commemoration of Dr. King’s life and legacy on January 19, 2004.
The theme of this year’s commemoration program was “Re-engaging the Great Divide: Education [...]

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 [...]

On this week’s show, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel talked on “Anti-Semitism: Old and New,” as part of his third lecture in last year’s annual lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales.”
In this lecture, Wiesel pointed out that anti-Semitism still exists and is growing, especially in Europe, but emphasized that he does not believe Muslims or [...]

On this week’s show, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel delivered a lecture entitled “In the Talmud: War and Peace and Resistance to the Enemy,” in which he emphasized the importance of peace in the Jewish tradition and the necessity for resisting the enemy for the sake of preserving the Jewish heritage and religion.
Wiesel also discussed the [...]