This show featured a discussion titled “Where is Britain? The UK, the EU, and the United States” organized by the Institute for Human Sciences in cooperation with the European Studies at Boston University and funded in part by the European Commission. The discussion focused on how the feeling that Britain is not part of Europe [...]

This show featured a panel discussion held at the conclusion of the third annual African Presidential Roundtable which is sponsored by Boston University’s African Presidential Archives and Research Renter.
Thirteen African former heads of state were joined at closed doors sessions in Johannesburg, South Africa by U.S. business, academic and government leaders to discuss issues impacting [...]

This week’s show featured a discussion titled “The Great Satan: Images of Evil in the Islamic Tradition,” the last in a series of lectures looking at the topic of “evil” presented by the Institute for Philosophy and Religion, and sponsored by the Boston University Humanities Foundation and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The main speaker [...]

This show featured the 19th Great Debate held by Boston University’s College of Communication. This year’s topic was “Does Overseas Outsourcing Hurt the U.S. Economy?”
Arguing for the affirmative were Thea Lee, Chief International Economist in the Public Policy Department of the AFLl-CIO and Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. Speaking for the [...]

On this show, Ahmad Sikainga, former Fulbright scholar in Morocco and Mellon Fellow at Harvard University delivered a lecture titled “Local Perspectives on the Sudanese Conflict.”
Sikainga’s lecture was presented by Boston University’s African studies department. He was introduced by James Pritchett, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Boston University’s African Studies Center, and Associate Provost [...]