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Lectures tagged "Anglo-Celtic"

Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe: The Great God Debate

Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe: The Great God Debate

Christopher Hitchens

The polemic "anti-theist" writer Christopher Hitchens engages in "The Great God Debate" with Conservative Jewish leader Rabbi David J. Wolpe. Does God exist? Is religion a force for good or evil in the world? Can ancient texts be squared with modern science? Can morality be divorced from religion?

Life of Lady Randolph Churchill

November 8, 2007

Anne Sebba examines the unusually close relationship between Lady Randolph Churchill and her son Winston, who described her as having the wine of life in her veins.

Verneys: Love, War, and Madness in 17th Century England

Adrian Tinniswood

October 4, 2007

Adrian Tinniswood describes the ordinary 17th century lives of an extraordinary family, the Verneys.

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.

Jamestown vs. Plymouth: America's Historical Amnesia

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Historians Karen Ordahl Kupperman and Walter W. Woodward look at the story of John Smith, the early days of colonial speculation in Virginia and New England, and Jamestown's creation story from hell.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Defining the English Language

January 15, 2004

Jack Lynch, professor of English at Rutgers University, discusses Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. Two volumes thick and 2,300 pages long, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards.

W.B. Yeats: The Arch-Poet

December 10, 2003

Roy Foster speaks about the final volume in his acclaimed biography W.B. Yeats, A Life, Volume II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939. Roy Fosteris the Carroll professor of Irish history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Hartford College.

Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Carrigan Report

September 22, 2003

Professor James Smith of Boston College's English department discusses the beginnings of an "architecture of containment" in Ireland, constructed to silence those whose sexual behavior or family circumstances contradicted an emerging image of Irish Catholic identity.