Category Archives: Guest Authors
Peter E. Gordon
Harvard University’s Amabel B. James Professor of History Peter E. Gordon will speak on his new book, Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver (Yale University Press, 2026), at Boston College on April 14 at 5 p.m. in Devlin 101. Gordon, who … Continue reading
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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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
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
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
Historian Jill Lepore
The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy will host historian and author Jill Lepore on December 3. She will deliver a lecture in the Burns Library at 5 p.m. based on her new book, We the People: A … Continue reading
Eric Klinenberg
Bestselling author and public sociologist Eric Klinenberg, the Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, will present the Jane Jacobs Lecture at Boston College on November 5 at … Continue reading
Novelist Emily St. John Mandel
Boston College’s Park Street Corporation Speaker Series, which seeks to engage students in exploring values and ethics related to health and healthcare practices, will host bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel on November 4 at 7 p.m. in the Heights … Continue reading
An unlikely alliance
Award-winning historian Hasia R. Diner will discuss her book, Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America (St. Martin’s Press, 2024), at Boston College on March 26 at 5 p.m. at Connolly House, 300 Hammond … Continue reading
Katherine McKittrick
Katherine McKittrick, a professor of gender studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, will present “A Poetics of Declension” at Boston College on March 19 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. McKittrick is … Continue reading
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