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 show featured excerpts from a discussion presented by The Institute for Human Sciences, titled “Running the Gauntlet.”
The featured speaker was author Barbara Masin whose book “Gauntlet: Five Friends, 20,000 Enemy Troops, and The Secret That Could Have Changed the Course of the Cold War” tells the true story of courage and daring against overwhelming [...]

This week’s show refeatures a discussion presented by the Institute for Human Sciences, titled “Getting to Know the European Union: France and Germany.”
The speakers were Pierre Vimont, French Ambassador to the United States, and Klaus Scharioth, German Ambassador to the United States.
The discussion began with an introduction by Ambassador Charles Dunbar, Professor of International Relations [...]

This week’s show featured a discussion presented by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University titled “Getting to Know the European Union: Poland.”
The speakers were Janusz Reiter, Polish Ambassador to the United States, and Lawrence Weschler, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
The discussion was preceded by an [...]

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 [...]