This week’s show featured a panel discussion held by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University four days after the re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The panel, entitled “Putin’s Second Term: Prospects for Russia and America,” discussed the election’s impact on American-European relations.
The panelists of this discussion were Lilia Shevtsova, senior associate at [...]

On this week’s show, Steven Rockefeller, professor emeritus at Middlebury College, presented a lecture on “Ecological and Social Responsibility: The Making of the Earth Charter” as part of Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion’s thirty-fifth lecture series.
The chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Steven Rockefeller led an international consortium that in 2002 created [...]

This week’s show featured a panel discussion presented by Boston University’s Institute for Human Science and the American Council on Germany, in cooperation with the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany. The discussion is entitled “The Challenges of European Integration: Views from Old and New Europe.”
The panel speakers included Gesine Schwan, president of [...]

From 1999 to 2003, the “Daily News” became the most widely read paper in Zimbabwe, with a circulation of more than 100,000, before its founding editor Geoffrey Nyarota was forced to flee the country last January.
This week’s show featured a lecture by Zimbabwean journalist Geoffrey Nyarota entitled “Press Freedom in a World of Censorship.” The [...]