This week’s show featured a lecture presented by the University Professors Program at Boston University.
Delivered by Professor Willard Spiegelman of the Department of English at Southern Methodist University, the lecture is titled, “A Poet’s Life in Letters: The Case of Amy Clampitt.” Professor Spiegelman knew Clampitt personally when she was alive.
Amy Clampitt was born on [...]

This week’s show featured a lecture by award-winning poet Philip Levine who was introduced by the Director of the Boston University’s Graduate Creating Writing program, Leslie Epstein.
Levine has earned nearly every major prize available to an American poet, including: the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Lenore [...]

This week’s show featured a panel discussion presented by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University, in cooperation with the Goeth-Institut Boston, and the American Council on Germany.
The discussion, titled “Being Muslim in Germany Today,” was presented by author and sociologist Necla Kelek and author and journalist Peter Schneider and was moderated by New [...]

This week’s show featured a panel discussion titled “Two Ambassadors on European Union Enlargement” that was presented by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University.
The two speakers were Eva Nowotny, ambassador of Austria to the United States and Martin Palous, ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States. They were introduced [...]

This week’s show featured the first annual “Jacek Kuron Debate” organized by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University. This first debate, which is named after the legendary Eastern European oppositional leader who died in June 2004, contrasts U.S. and European approaches on values and social policies.
Chaired by eminent philosopher Charles Taylor, who is [...]