This week’s show featured a discussion presented by the Institute for Human Sciences, titled “Getting to Know the European Union: Portugal and Spain.”
The speakers were Joao de Vallera, Ambassador of Portugal to the United States, and Carlos Westendorp, Ambassador of Spain to the United States. The moderator of the discussion was Alan Berger, Senior Editorial [...]

This week’s show featured a discussion presented by the Institute for Human Sciences, titled “Getting to Know the European Union: Denmark and the Netherlands.”
The speakers were Friis Arne Petersen, Ambassador of Denmark to the United States, and Christiaan Mark Johan Kroner, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States.
Moderating the discussion was Alan Berger, Senior [...]

This week’s show featured excerpts from Boston University’s 24th Great Debate. Sponsored by the Department of Journalism at the College of Communications, the debate’s topic was “Can Stricter Law Enforcement at the Border and the Workplace Solve the U.S. Illegal Immigration Problem?”
Modeled after the Cambridge and Oxford University Union Societies’ public discussions, the Great Debate [...]

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 [...]