This week’s show featured a lecture presented by the African-American Studies Program at Boston University, as part of the 200th anniversary of the ending of the US-Atlantic slave trade.
The speaker was University of Maryland Professor Ira Berlin and his lecture was titled “The Closing of the Slave Trade and the Transformation of Slavery in the [...]

This week’s show featured Boston University’s 25th Great Debate, sponsored by the College of Communications Department of Journalism at Boston University.
Moderated by Boston University Journalism Department Chairman, Robert Zelnick, the debate’s question was “Should Biofuels and the Renewables Be Critical Components of U.S. Energy Policy?”
Arguing in the affirmative were R. Brooke Coleman, President of New [...]

This week’s show featured a lecture presented by the Institute for Human Sciences, titled “The Legacy of 1968: A European Perspective.”
Speaking was European Parliament member, and co-President of the Greens/Free European Alliance Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit. He will be introduced by Harvard University Professor, Stanley Hoffman.
The lecture began with a greeting by Institute for Human Sciences [...]

This week’s show featured a lecture by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, titled “Because Poverty Is the Absence of Every Human Right!”
Dr. Yunus is founder of the Grameen Bank, which provides credit to the poor in rural Bangladesh without any collateral. since its inception in 1974, the bank has lent more than [...]