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Uwem Akpan: Say You're One of Them
Uwem Akpan
November 12, 2009
00:23:09
Uwem Akpan, Nigerian Jesuit priest and author of the New York Times bestseller Say You're One of Them, reads from his book and discusses the intersection in his life between spirituality and art.
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Role of the Media in Our Democracy: War Reporting
Kevin Cullen
November 17, 2007
01:25:44
David Greenberg, professor of Media Studies at Rutgers Univeristy, moderates a panel discussion on the responsibilities of the press when it comes to war reporting.
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Role of the Media in Our Democracy: Political Reporting
Joe Lockhart
November 17, 2007
01:11:33
Columbia University Provost Alan Brinkley moderates a panel discussion on the responsibilities of the press when it comes to political reporting.
Role of the Media in Our Democracy: Business
Neil Brown
November 17, 2007
01:14:21
Ellen Hume, founding director of the Center on Media & Society at UMASS Boston, moderates a panel discussion on the responsibilities of the press when it comes to business reporting and on the business of the media.
Dante's Purgatorio: Canto XXII
Todd Boli
September 24, 2007
00:50:12
Secretary-Treasurer of the Dante Society of America Todd Boli, an independent scholar, reads and discusses the 22nd canto of Dante's Purgatorio.
Bloomsday Discussion: Irish and Jews of Boston
John Henning
June 16, 2007
00:40:09
As a part of simultaneous, international celebrations of James Joyce's Ulysses, a panel of experts discusses how the Irish and the Jews of Boston impacted the evolution of the city and each other.
Science Fiction and Student Understanding of Science
Michael Barnett
May 16, 2007
00:53:21
Michael Barnett, of Boston College's Lynch School, discusses how and why sci-fi movies seem so credible.
T. Anthony Perry: Erotic Spirituality and the Book of Jonah
T. Anthony Perry
April 19, 2007
01:03:23
According to T. Anthony Perry, a literary scholar who has taught at both the University of Connecticut and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, there is no biblical book that has been so maligned and so poorly understood and so viciously used as the Book of Jonah.