This show featured a lecture titled “Being British, Feeling Muslim” by Farhan Nizami, Director of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Prince of Wales Fellow in the Study of the Islamic World at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Nizami’s speech was given at a conference titled “Muslims in Europe” that was held by the Institute for Human [...]

On this week’s show Ambassador Dennis Ross spoke on “The Missing Peace: Prospects and Possibilities in the Middle East after Arafat.” Ambassador Ross’s lecture inaugurated the Yitzhak Rabin Lecture Series recently established by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University.
For more than a decade, Ambassador Ross was America’s Middle East envoy and [...]

On this show, Professor Laurie Patton delivered a lecture entitled “Unashamedly Evil: Myth and Morality in Contemporary American Advertising.”
Patton, Professor of Early Indian Religions and Research Professor in the Humanities at Emory University, is introduced by Stephen Prothero, Professor of Religion, Chairman of the Department of Religion, and Director of the Graduate Division of Religious [...]

This show featured a discussion titled “Democracy: Ancient and Modern” with Loren J. Samons II, Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University.
Dean Samons spoke about the history of democracy, particularly in Ancient Rome, and how the democracies of the current day can learn from [...]