This Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 9 pm ET, tune in to hear a lecture co-sponsored by the Humanities Foundation, the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts, the University Professors Program, and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. Speaking will be Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature [...]

This week’s show featured a lecture sponsored by Amnesty International in cooperation with the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University. The lecture is titled “Dashed Hopes: Human Rights in the Former Soviet Union.”
The speaker was Honorable Jack Matlock, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union under President Ronald Reagan and author of two [...]

This week’s show featured a discussion titled “German-Polish Relations in Today’s Europe.” Speaking will be Janusz Eeiter, Polish ambassador to the United States, and Klaus Sharioth, German ambassador to the United States. They were introduced by Harvard University Visiting Professor Karl Kaiser.
The discussion was held by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University in [...]

This show broadcast the last of three installments from the 31st annual lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” delivered by teacher, author and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel.
Wiesel’s 31 series focused on Jewish history, beliefs, and religious fanaticism. This final lecture of the series was entitled “A Woman in Hasidism: The Maiden of Ludmir.”
Elie [...]