Author Archives: Bookworm
Understanding Love and Responsibility
After years of counseling young adults and married couples, Father Karol Wojtyla (Saint John Paul II) published Love and Responsibility. This classic work is not an easy book to read as the language is often high and theoretical. Boston College Carroll … Continue reading
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Tagged Carroll School of Management, Catholic Church, marriage, papal
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“Genius” in the house
MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner Alison Bechdel will give a talk at 7 p.m. on Feb. 11 in Gasson Hall, room 100 under the sponsorship of the Lowell Humanities Series. Bechdel is a cartoonist best known for her comic strip “Dykes To Watch Out … Continue reading
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Tagged cartoonist, MacArthur Grant, memoir
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The Doctor, Undone
James Kyung-Jin Lee, author of Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism, will speak Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. in Stokes 195S. Lee is the chair of the Asian American Studies Department at the University of California-Irvine and an Episcopal priest. … Continue reading
Boston Strong
Boston Magazine has published an exclusive excerpt from the new book Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph over Tragedy (ForeEdge/University Press of New England, 2015), co-written by Boston College alumnus Dave Wedge. In the book, Wedge and co-author Casey Sherman use their journalism skills to … Continue reading
Fink appearance postponed
Due to the weather, the talk by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink scheduled for Jan. 28 has been postponed. Stay tuned to BC Humanities Series website for updates.
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Two Faces of Political Islam
Boston College Professor of Political Science Ali Banuazizi will present “Politicization of Religion or Sacralization of Politics: Two Faces of Political Islam” on January 28 at 12:00 noon at the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at 24 Quincy Road. … Continue reading
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink will talk about her best-selling book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Random House/Crown, 2013), at Boston College on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. The culmination of six … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, natural disaster, New Orleans, nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize winner
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Book review by Stephen Pope
Boston College Theologian Stephen Pope has written a review of Evolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation, edited by Martin A. Nowak and Sarah Coakley, for Commonweal magazine. In his review, Pope writes “Coakley and Nowak’s book provides an … Continue reading
Women of Will
J. Donald Monan, S.J., Professor in Theatre Arts Tina Packer, a renowned expert on Shakespeare, is the author of the forthcoming book, Women of Will (Knopf Doubleday, 2015) — the product of her lifelong exploration of Shakespeare’s famed yet misunderstood heroines. It is based … Continue reading
Childhood in Irish society
A new volume co-edited by Boston College English Associate Professor James M. Smith and Maria Luddy of the University of Warwick offers significant scholarly contributions to the fields of Irish studies and childhood studies. Reflecting the interests of historians, literary critics, and … Continue reading
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Tagged children, English Department, Ireland, Irish Studies
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