This show rebroadcast 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.
The 31st series focused on Jewish history, beliefs, and religious fanaticism. The second lecture is entitled “And Thou Shall Love Thy Neighbor: Against Fanaticism in the Talmud.”
Elie [...]

This show rebroadcast 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 was titled “A Portrait of the Messiah.” Wiesel discussed the life and [...]

This week’s show featured a keynote address followed by a panel discussion titled “Accountable to Humanity: Justice in Darfur.”
The keynote speaker was writer and activist Dr. Alex DeWaal, a fellow of the “Global Equity Initiative” at Harvard University and director of “Justice Africa, London.”
The participants in the panel discussion, which was moderated by Deputy Director [...]

This week’s show 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 presented by the African Studies Center and African-American Studies Program at Boston University.
The title of the lecture was “The Internal African Diaspora, Tracing the Origins of Gnawa Spiritual Music in Morocco.” The lecture speaker was Dr. Chouki El Hamel, Professor of History at Arizona State University, who was introduced [...]