Author Archives: Bookworm
Burns Scholar Ray Cashman
Provost Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington Ray Cashman, who is serving this semester as BC’s Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, will deliver a lecture on April 8 at 6 p.m. on “Exploring Belief in Spirits … Continue reading
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Tagged Burns Library, Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, foklore, Ireland, Irish Studies
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Margaret Burnham
Renowned legal scholar, civil rights advocate, and former judge Margaret A. Burnham will deliver a talk on her acclaimed book By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners on April 8 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. By Hands Now … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, civil rights, law, racism
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Joyce Vance: Giving Up Is Unforgivable
Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law Joyce Vance, author of the bestseller Giving Up is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping A Democracy, will speak at Boston College on March 26. Vance’s … Continue reading
From Baltimore to Beirut
Sherene Seikaly, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a talk on her current book project “From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine” at Boston College on March 25. Her book … Continue reading
A united Ireland?
Journalists Fintan O’Toole (Irish Times) and Sam McBride (Belfast Telegraph) will give a presentation on their new book, For and Against a United Ireland (Notre Dame Press, 2026), on March 18 at Boston College’s Yawkey Center, Murray Room. Both authors will … Continue reading
Politics and governance in the digital era
Rogers Brubaker, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles and UCLA Foundation Chair, will speak on “Politics and Governance in the Digital Era: Between Populism and Technocracy” at Boston College on March 18 at 7 p.m. in … Continue reading
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Another adventure for Benny
Bestselling author Jen Calonita, a Boston College graduate, is back with book two in her Isle of Ever series. In the series’ first installment, Benny figures out the clues her ancestor set out for her in her will and reaches … Continue reading
Irish Romanticism
Former Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Claire Connolly (University College Cork) will return to Boston College on March 11 at 5 p.m. to discuss her new book, Irish Romanticism: A Literary History (Cambridge University Press). In her book, Connolly … Continue reading
‘Fire Weather’
John Vaillant, whose journalism, fiction, and non-fiction explore collisions between human ambition and the natural world, will speak at Boston College on March 11 at 7 p.m. in Gason 100. Vaillant is the author of the acclaimed book Fire Weather: … Continue reading
Hiker and storyteller
Matt Larson is the author of 4000s by 40: Tackling Middle Age in the Mountains of New Hampshire, which chronicles his journey of mistakes and self-discovery while seeking to climb all 48 of the Granite State’s 4,000-foot peaks before turning … Continue reading
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