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Show archive for May, 2008
 
 
Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 9:00 pm

This week’s show featured a lecture sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Relations at Boston University.
Titled “U.S. Presidential Campaigns in Wartime: A History,” the lecture was delivered by Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University.
The lecture began with an introduction by Han Han, President of the Arts and Sciences Alumni [...]

 
Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 9:00 pm

This week’s show featured excerpts from a poetry reading and discussion with Polish poet and translator Tomasz Rozycki and poet Major Jackson, Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont, and a faculty member of the Pennington writing seminars.
The event was presented by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University in cooperation with [...]

 
Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 9:00 pm

This week’s show aired 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 of the lecture, titled “Agrippa Hull: New Perspectives on a Berkshire Revolutionary Patriot,” was UCLA Professor Gary Nash.
The lecture began with an introduction by Ronald [...]

 
Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 9:00 pm

This week’s show featured a lecture presented by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University.
Titled “Ethiopian Israelis: The Remarkable Unfinished Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews,” the lecture was delivered by Dr. Len Lyons.
Dr. Lyons is the author of six books, most recently “The Ethiopian Jews of Israel: Personal Stories of Life in [...]