Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Philosophy & Religion, and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies.  Our speaker is widely respected scholar of German idealism, and a leader in modern Jewish philosophy, Dr. Myriam Bienenstock.  Dr. Bienenstock’s lecture is titled “Emmanual Levinas in Context: The Jewish Connection.”

Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Philosophy & Religion, and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies.  Our speaker is widely respected scholar of German idealism, and a leader in modern Jewish philosophy, Dr. Myriam Bienenstock.  Dr. Bienenstock’s lecture is titled “Emmanual Levinas in Context: The German Connection.”

Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Philosophy & Religion, and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies.  Our speaker is widely respected scholar of German idealism, and a leader in modern Jewish philosophy, Dr. Myriam Bienenstock.  Dr. Bienenstock’s lecture is titled “Emmanual Levinas in Context: The French Connection.”

This week our lecture is presented by the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University, and titled “The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy.”  Our speaker is irish historical writer, Tim Pat Coogan.

This week we feature stories written and produced by students from this semester’s Narrative Radio Journalism class in the College of Communication.  Our student contributors are, in order of appearance:  Kasha Patel, Jack O’Dea, Tammy Kim, Melanie Morris, Noelle Graves, Sascha Garrey, Kersten Egenhofer, Poncie Rutsch, and Taylor Avery.

This week we have a lecture presented by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.  Our speaker is distinguished professor and Santa Fe Institute former president, Geoffrey West.  Professor West’s lecture is titled “Growth, Innovation, and the Accelerating Pace of Life from Cells to Cities: Are They Sustainable?”

Our event this week is presented by the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University, and features a reading and conversation with poet and novelist, Ciarán Carson.

Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University African Studies Center, titled “Traveling the Road of the Orishas.”  Our speaker is Cheryl Sterling, Liberal Studies Program Master Teacher at New York University.

This week our lecture is presented by the Boston University Health Policy Institute, and titled “Causes and Consequences of Urban Hospital Closings and Reconfiguration, 1936-2010.”  Our speaker is Alan Sager, Boston University Professor of Health Policy and Management, in the School of Public Health.

This week we present the Boston University Creative Writing Program’s annual faculty reading.  The speakers are, in order of appearance: Dan Chiasson, Leslie Epstein, Ha Jin, Sigrid Nunez, and Robert Pinsky.