This week’s show featured the second of three installments from the 31st annual lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” delivered by teacher, author and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel.
This year’s series focuses on Jewish history, beliefs, and religious fanaticism. The second lecture is entitled “And Thou Shall Love Thy Neighbor: Against Fanaticism in the [...]

This week’s show featured the first of three installments from the 31st annual lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” delivered by teacher, author and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel. This year’s lecture series focuses on Jewish history, beliefs, and religious fanaticism.
This first lecture is titled “A Portrait of the Messiah.” Wiesel discussed the life [...]

On this week’s show, Dr. Henry Drewal, Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, delivered a lecture titled “The Siddis of India: The African Diaspora of the Indian Ocean.”
Dr. Drewal was introduced by James Pritchett, Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University. His lecture was presented by the African [...]

This week’s shoe featured a panel discussion presented by the Institute for Human Sciences in cooperation with the Goethe Institut Boston and the American Council on Germany.
The speakers of the panel, titled “Whose God Is It? Religion in the US and Europe,” were Jane Kramer, European correspondent for the New Yorker and Jan Ross, [...]

This week’s show featured a lecture titled “The Jewish-Christian Debate: The Interplay of Philosophy and Polemics in the Middle Ages” that was presented by the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts at Boston University. The lecture speaker was Professor Daniel Lasker of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, who was introduced by Boston University Department [...]