Lectures tagged "European"


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Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Paula Butturini
March 2, 2010
00:59:57
Journalist Paula Butturini talks about her new memoir Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy. Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck.
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates
William Grant
February 4, 2010
00:50:50
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. executive producer William R. Grant and producer Stephen Ives discuss the series with Dr. David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist from the Broad Institute.
Robert Darnton: The Case for Books
Robert Darnton
February 3, 2010
00:57:50
Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, discusses the historical and cultural importance of the printed word.
History of Experimental Video in Boston
Otto Piene
January 31, 2010
00:47:28
Otto Piene, sky artist and former director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, and Fred Barzyk, former director of WGBH's New Television Workshop, talk about Boston's influential role in the creation of the video art medium in the late 1960s.
Belinda Rathbone: Tea with Miss Rose
Belinda Rathbone
December 17, 2009
00:35:31
Belinda Rathbone, co-author of Tea with Miss Rose, talks about the life and times of Rose Nichols, the Bostonian spinster who gathered a regular crowd at her townhouse on Beacon Hill in the 1950s to discuss art, politics, and world affairs over a cup of Hu-Kwa.
Teapot in a Tempest: The Boston Tea Party of 1773 (Part 2)
Benjamin Carp
December 10, 2009
00:52:37
The Boston Tea Party lives on in history and memory in a variety of ways. The term "Boston Tea Party" doesn't appear for 50 years after the event. No one spoke openly about who had boarded the tea ships until the 1820s and 1830s.
Teapot in a Tempest: The Boston Tea Party of 1773 (Part 1)
Benjamin Carp
December 3, 2009
00:47:32
The Boston Tea Party was about more than taxes, and it was part of a movement that was larger than Boston.
How Europe Views Obama's Foreign Policy
Laurent Cohen-Tanugi
November 13, 2009
01:04:03
International lawyer and French government consultant Laurent Cohen-Tanugi discusses the European perspective on American foreign policy of the day.