Professor Igor Lukes teaches History and International Relations at Boston University and is an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He is an expert in Central European history, East European politics, and contemporary Russia as well as an Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in New England. He is also a captivating lecturer, storyteller, and the first person to awaken a feminist mindset in me without ever talking about feminism. He simply admired female leaders in history and presented them in such a rational, human way that I immediately became aware of my own prejudice, and how I was taught this prejudice. He greatly assisted me on the road to my unlearning. And it isn't until now, 14 years after taking his class, that we are having our first conversation after exchanging a few cordial emails with mutual admiration and regard to arrange this interview.
I'm so pleased to bring you Professor Lukes as he tells us why penile dysfunction led to the French revolution, whether democratic leaders or communist dictators hate their kids more, and describes how future sultans were kept in solitary confinement and fed only by a deaf mute before leading one of the largest empires in history.
http://philoofhealth.org/2014/11/czech-please-with-igor-lukes.html
