This week’s show rebroadcast a lecture by award-winning poet Philip Levine who will be introduced by the Director of 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 rebroadcast the first annual “Jacek Kuron Debate” organized by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University. Named after the legendary Eastern European oppositional leader who died in June 2004, this inaugural debate contrasts U.S. and European approaches on values and social policies.
Chaired by eminent philosopher Charles Taylor, who is also Professor [...]

This show featured excerpts from a lecture sponsored by the Institute For Human Sciences at Boston University titled “Legal Migration and the Fight Against Illegal Immigration.”
The lecture speaker was Franco Frattini, Vice President of the European Commission, and EU Commissioner for “Justice, Freedom and Security.” The moderator was Elizabeth Prodromou, Assistant Professor of International Relations, [...]

This show featured a panel discussion sponsored by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University titled “The Future of Europe.”
The speakers were Aleksander Smolar, Senior Research Fellow at CNRS in Paris and President of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw, and Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow at The New America Foundation.