With all of the excitement around U.S. and Cuban relations finally opening up there is a host of questions around race and religion that are fundamental to the lives of Afro-Cuban religious practitioners left to be asked.
Visiting Professor Jocelyne Cesari discusses Europe's response to the refugee crisis and the complex and unpredictable social dimensions inherent in immigration.
As for the United States-Mexico relationship, Trump’s presidency poses a serious risk to the advances made during the Obama years, says Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America.
Professor Davíd Carrasco had strong words of his own for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's disparagement of Mexican immigrants, drawing on cultural and political history to make his case.
Professor Cornel West discusses the course he is teaching this semester, in which he's asking big questions about "how to revitalize the Democratic possibilities within the empire."
Professor Jon Levenson discusses his latest book, The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism, in which he explores the origin and development of the idea of "love of God."
Lukas Filler likes a challenge. One of the 6-foot-5-inch former competitive swimmer's favorite pastimes is surfing … in the New England winter … before dawn.