The second of three installments from the 23rd annual lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” delivered last fall by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Elie Wiesel.

This week’s show featured the first of three installments from the 23rd annual lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” delivered last fall by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Elie Wiesel.
This lecture was titled “In The Bible: The Akedah Revisited: More Questions.”
Professor Wiesel was introduced Boston University Professor Abigail Gillman, from [...]

This week’s show featured a discussion sponsored by the Institute for Human Science at Boston University.
Titled “Getting to Know the European Union: Austria,” the discussion centered around a conversation with Dr. Wolfgang Renezeder, director of the Austrian Press and Information Service at the Embassy of Austria in the U.S.
Moderated by Alan Berger, senior editorial writer [...]

This week’s show featured a discussion sponsored by the Institute for Human Sciences and the Department of International Relations at Boston University.
Titled “Getting to Know the European Union: Greece,” the discussion was with Alexandros Mallias, Ambassador of Greece to the United States.
Moderated by Alan Berger, senior editorial writer for The Boston Globe, the discussion began [...]

This show featured a a lecture titled “Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself: Antinomies of Tolerant Reason” that was sponsored by the Institute for the Human Sciences at Boston University.
The lecture was delivered by Slovenian postmodern philosopher, cultural critic and sociologist Slavoj Zizek. He was introduced by Boston University Professor Jeffrey Mehlman.
Zizek has published over a [...]