This week’s show featured a rebroadcast of 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,” last month as part of Boston University Department of Psychology’s Distinguished Lecture Series and the Human Development Program Colloquium Series.
Chomsky is credited with the [...]

This week’s show presented a lecture titled “Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century” that was organized by the Institute for Human Sciences in cooperation with the Department of International Relations at Boston University.
The speaker was Mark Leonard, Director of Foreign Policy at the London-based Centre for European Reform where he writes on Europe’s relations [...]

On this week’s show, author Peter Manseau gave a talk titled “Memoir As Midrash.”
Peter Manseau’s newest book is “Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son,” a memoir which tells the story of his family’s struggle to reconcile the obligations of faith and the necessity of love.
Peter Manseau’s father, a censured priest [...]

On this week’s show award-winning poet Eavan Boland gave a lecture as part of the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series.
Hosted by the Creative Writing Program, the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series is a series of high-profile poetry readings celebrating the legacy of the historic Boston University class in which Robert Lowell once taught poets Sylvia [...]