This show featured the second of three installments from the annual lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” by Nobel Peace prize winner Elie Wiesel.
In this second lecture titled, “America: Memories of Doubts and Hope,” Wiesel discussed the emergence, role, and significance of the Jewish community in America, starting with the story of the initial [...]

This week’s show featured the first of three lectures by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel, as part of his annual lecture series at Boston University titled “The Fascination with Jewish Tales.”
The first of this year’s three lectures by Wiesel is titled “Amos and Habakkuk - Minor Prophets?” Wiesel will address the [...]

This week’s show, three distinguished poets, Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992, Robert Pinsky, a former United States poet laureate, and Adam Aagajewski, one of the leading “new wave” of Polish poets, read a selection of politically potent poems, and engaged in a discussion about the role of poetry in [...]

This week’s show featured a lecture entitled “Some Reflections on that Uselessly Unpleasant Franco-American Relationship.” The main lecturer was Michel Rocard, a current member of the European parliament and former prime minister of France. The respondent to Rocard’s arguments was Mark Lilla, Professor of Social Thought at University of Chicago.
This event was sponsored by the [...]

This week’s show featured a conference organized by the Institute of Human Sciences at Boston University on the results of a recent public opinion survey on European and American attitudes toward one another.
The panel discussion participants were Ron Asmus, of
The German Marshall Fund of the United States; Laurence Bagot, Staff Reporter, Enjeux les Echos and [...]