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Role of the Media in Our Democracy: War Reporting

November 17, 2007

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.

Role of the Media in Our Democracy: Political Reporting

November 17, 2007

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

November 17, 2007

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. Panelists include Neil Brown, executive editor and vice president of the St.

Dante's Purgatorio: Canto XXII

September 24, 2007

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

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

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

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.

Robert Kane: Are All Values Relative?

Robert Kane, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin, says there's considerable doubt and confusion in the modern world about objective values, and about how we can find them if th