Category Archives: Panel Discussions

The US and Europe: Still Sharing the Same Values?

We’re still digging through our archive for great podcasts – you can find links to recordings of ongoing events on the website – go to our home page (www.euforyou.org), click on IHS, and then on “archived events.” For example, on our 2009 page, you’ll find recordings of events with German author Bernhard Schlink, Romanian poet [...]

 
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The Concave Mirror: The US and Europe Look at Each Other

On September 29, 2004 in cooperation with the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the American Council on Germany, the Institute organized a conference entitled “The Concave Mirror: The US and Europe Look at Each Other.” The conference presented and discussed the results of the latest public opinion survey undertaken by the German [...]

 
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New Europe and the United States

Over the next several weeks, we will be bringing you podcasts of our archived events. While political circumstances have changed, the discussions remain extremely interesting.
Today’s podcast is an edited recording of an April 28, 2004 panel discussion featuring the Polish journalist Adam Michnik and Nation writer Jonathan Schell. Moderating the discussion is Irena Grudzinska Gross, [...]

 
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Writing Is a Celebration

The seventh and last event in our “Poetry and Politics” series features Polish poet Tomasz Różycki and American poet Major Jackson. The reading and conversation took place at Boston University on October 1, 2008. The event was moderated by Irena Grudzinska Gross, former director of the Institute for Human Sciences, who introduces the poets. It [...]

 
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The Poet Is an Omnivore

The sixth event in our “Poetry and Politics” series features German poet and public intellectual Hans Magnus Enzensberger. The podcast is an edited recording of Enzensberger’s reading and conversation at Boston University on April 17, 2007. The event was moderated by Institute for Human Sciences director Irena Grudzinska Gross, who introduces the poet in this [...]

 
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A Few Magical Moments

The fifth event in our “Poetry and Politics” series (but unfortunately, only the fourth podcast, as we’ve lost the recording of Andrei Codrescu’s memorable reading on November 2, 2006) features the return of Adam Zagajewski to Boston University. The podcast is a recording of Zagajewski’s March 19, 2007 reading at the Institute for Human Sciences. [...]

 
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Poetry and Nations

The third event in our “Poetry and Politics” series, this podcast is an unedited recording of an October 2006 event entitled Poetry and Nations, featuring Polish poet Julia Hartwig and American poet Rosanna Warren.  Irena Grudzinska Gross, former director of the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University, moderated the conversation.
Julia Hartwig occupies a prominent [...]

 
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From Elsewhere: Poetry and National Borders

The second in a series of seven podcasts on the theme of “Poetry and Politics” featuring recordings of conversations with poets moderated by Institute Director Irena Grudsinska Gross at Boston University between 2004 and 2007. This podcast is a recording of an April 2005 reading and conversation with Polish poet Piotr Sommer and American poet [...]

 
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Poetry and Empire

This week we begin a series of seven podcasts on the theme of “Poetry and Politics.” Between October 2004 and October 2007, Institute Director Irena Grudzinska Gross moderated a series of conversations with American and European poets as a way of encouraging people to think in new and creative ways about the role culture can [...]

 
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US-Russian Relations in the New Global Context

This week we continue to podcast our discussions with Russia analyst and IHS board member Lilia Shevtsova. Lilia is Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Moscow and one of Russia’s most respected political analysts. This event, with Andrew Kuchins, Senior Associate and Director of Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie [...]

 
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