This show featured a lecture by author Gregory Maguire. Maguire has written both adult and children’s books, including “Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister” and “Son of a Witch.”
Maguire’s lecture, titled “A Few Wicked Years,” was sponsored by the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts, in cooperation with the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at [...]

This week’s show broadcast a lecture by Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky.
Chomsky delivered the lecture, entitled “Biolinguistics Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution,” as part of Boston University Department of Psychology’s Distinguished Lecture Series and the Human Development Program Colloquium Series.
Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of [...]

This show broadcast a lecture titled “Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain and Europe in a New Century” that was presented by the Institute for Human Sciences in cooperation with European Studies at Boston University.
The lecture speaker was Chris Patten, the chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities. Previously, Patten was the member of the British [...]

This week’s show featured a lecture by Professor Willard Spiegelman of the Department of English at Southern Methodist University.
Presented by the University Professors Program at Boston University, Professor Spiegelman’s lecture was 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 [...]