On this week’s show, Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen talked about the future of ballet and his vision for the company. The discussion was sponsored by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University as part of its Student Enrichment Series.
Nissinen is recognized internationally as an accomplished dancer, teacher, and artistic director. [...]

On this show, Pulitzer Prize winning poet C. K. Williams read 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 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 a lecture by professor Laurie Patton 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 [...]