This week’s show featured a lecture by Polish poet, novelist, and essayist Adam Zagajewski.
This lecture was sponsored by the Institute for Human Sciences in cooperation with the University Professors Program and the Humanities Foundation at Boston University as well as the literary journal Agni.
Introducing Mr. Zagajewski will be Institute for Human Sciences Executive Director, Irena [...]

This week’s show rebroadcast a lecture titled “The Witch of Endor: Reading the Future” by author Gregory Maguire.
Using the Hebrew Bible reference to the Witch of Endor and her prophecies to King Saul about his imminent death, Maguire considered the correlation of prophecy and sympathy in the Book of Samuel story and other sources, including [...]

This week’s show rebroadcast a lecture titled “Global Healthcare Challenges In the 21st Century: Transatlantic Perspectives” that was sponsored by The Institute for Human Sciences in cooperation with the Health Sector Management Program at Boston University’s School of Management, and The American Council on Germany.
The lecture was by Dr. Stefan Winter, Professor of Medicine and [...]

This week’s show featured a lecture sponsored by the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts at Boston University. The speaker was will be 2007 Luce Visiting Assistant Professor, Dr. Kristin Schwain.
Dr. Schwain’s lecture was titled “Modernity’s Usable Pasts: James Weldon Johnson, Aaron Douglas, and Charles B. Falls’s God’s Trombones.” Her lecture was preceded [...]

This show rebroadcast a lecture by Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress, a prominent Washington think tank.
Sponsored by the Institute for Human Sciences, Mr. Cirincione’s lecture discussed his new book “Bomb Scare: the History and Future of Nuclear Weapons,” and how it relates to [...]