This week we share with you stories written and produced by students from this semester’s Narrative Radio Journalism class in the College of Communication.  Our student contributors were, in order of appearance:  Angus Dunk, Annie Ropiek, Tim McCann, Nee-sa Lossing, Tara Jayakar, Emily Dehority, Jackson Tobin, Laura Hanson, and Joel Senick.

This week our lecture is presented by the Boston University African American Studies Program, and is titled “Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice.”  Our speaker is Dr. Catherine Bliss from the Department of Africana Studies and Science and Technology Studies, at Brown University.

Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University African American Studies Program, and titled “Black Feminist Ethics in Brazilian Social Movements”.  Our speaker is Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.

This week our lecture is presented by the Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion, and titled “The Anti-Trinitarian Sources of Liberalism.”  Speaking is Professor Michael Gillespie, from the Department of Political Science at Duke University.

Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University School of Law, and titled “The Promises of Constitutional Pluralism.”  Our speaker is Yale Law School Visiting Professor, Miguel Maduro.

This week our lecture is co-sponsored by the Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion, and, the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, and titled “Politics, Religion, and Violence: The Maccabean Wars.”  Our speaker is University of Konstanz (Germany) professor, Jan Assmann.

This week our lecture is presented by Boston University’s Institute for Philosophy and Religion, and Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies. Speaking is Benjamin Lazier from the Department of History at Reed College.  Professor Lazier’s lecture is titled “Miracles in an Age of Technological Reproducibility.”

This week we have a poetry reading and discussion presented by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Department of English, and the literary journal, AGNI.  Our speakers are: Scottish poet, Don Paterson; and Dan Chiasson, poetry critic at The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.

Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University African American Studies Program, and co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the African Studies Center.  Speaking is Dr. Mark Auslander, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, and Director of the Museum of Culture and Environment at Central Washington University.  Dr. Auslander’s lecture is titled “The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family.”  (Aired 1-15-12)

This week our lecture presented by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, and is titled “Giving the Country Something New and Unknown – Reading Modernism’s Literary History in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.”  Our speaker is Yale University professor, Jacqueline Goldsby.