World of Ideas Audio

This show featured a panel discussion held at the conclusion of the third annual African Presidential Roundtable which is sponsored by Boston University's African Presidential Archives and Research Renter.

This show featured the second of three installments from the annual lecture series "The Fascination with Jewish Tales" by Nobel Peace prize winner Elie Wiesel.

On this week's show, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel talked on "Anti-Semitism: Old and New," as part of his third lecture in last year's annual lecture series "The Fascination with Jewish Tales."

This week's show broadcast a lecture by Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky.

This show featured a conversation with comic actor Gene Wilder.

This week's show featured the first of three installments from the 2005 lecture series "The Fascination with Jewish Tales" by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel.

Last Sunday's show featured the last of the 2004 lecture series, "The Fascination with Jewish Tales," by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel.

In 1952, the "Partisan Review," one of America's oldest and most respected literary and cultural journals, asked American intellectuals to assess the effects of political and cultural changes due to events following WWII, such as the rise of communism, the Cold War, and America's emerging economic superiority.

This week's show presented "A Life in Poetry: An Evening with Geoffrey Hill," a celebration of the career of the renowned poet, author, and teacher by Boston University faculty members.

The September 11, 2001 attacks on America, thought to have been carried out by religious zealots, have caused an intense examination of the tradition the suspects claim as justification for their acts.