Boston College Lectures

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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.
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How the War of Resistance to Japan Made and Unmade China
Rana Mitter
March 14, 2005
01:15:07
Rana Mitter, professor of Chinese Studies at Oxford University, provides a rough sketch of the events of the Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945) and illustrates its human cost as glimpsed in the firsthand accounts of Chinese journalist Du Zhongyuan.
Piecing Together Our History
Gary Okihiro
March 31, 2006
01:02:13
Gary Okihiro gives the keynote speech during the opening ceremonies of Boston College's Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Okihiro is introduced by Min Song, associate professor of English.
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Alexis Dudden: Japan's Colonization of Korea
Alexis Dudden
February 7, 2005
01:04:39
Alexis Dudden is a professor specializing in modern Korean and Japanese history at Connecticut College. This talk is drawn from her book Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power.
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Writers Among Us: David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer
David Shrayer-Petrov
May 2, 2006
01:14:17
David Shrayer-Petrov reads from his new book Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories, which includes an autobiographical novel set in Stalinist Russia, Strange Danya Rayev.
Estranged [Br]others: Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity
Adiel Schremer
November 16, 2005
01:18:33
Adiel Schremer speaks on Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity and the role Christianity occupied in the formation of ancient Judaism. This is also the topic of his book in progress, in which he discusses Talmudic efforts to encourage Jewish avoidance of Christian teachers and teachings.
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Claim for Truth: Medieval Judaism and Christianity
Daniel J. Lasker
February 6, 2003
01:09:17
Daniel J. Lasker, professor at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, talks about medieval Judaism and Christianity.

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