This show featured a lecture by Professor Wendy Doniger titled “When Humans Are More Beastly Than the Beasts: Zoomorphism in Ancient India.” Her lecture included a discussion of animal imagery in Ancient India, and the characteristics that humans and animals share.
Professor Wendy Doniger is a Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar, Director of the Martin [...]

This show featured a lecture on why and how desire has been seen as evil in both the Christian and Jewish traditions by Richard Kearney, Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and Visiting Professor at University College in Dublin.
Responding to Professor Kearney’s comments was Robert C. Neville, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology, and [...]

This show featured Pulitzer Prize winning poet C. K. Williams reading from his poetry as part of the inauguration of the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series at Boston University.
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, the Robert Lowell Memorial Lectures bring distinguished poets to Boston University to read alongside a member of the [...]

This show featured a panel discussion on the issues and challenges facing humanitarian aid and development assistance in today’s world, including the political dilemmas faced by humanitarian organizations, and the criticisms leveled at them.
The speakers were Janina Ochojska, President of the Polish Humanitarian Organization (PHO) which she founded in 1994, and Larry Cox, Senior Program [...]