Category Archives: Guest Authors

The planetary turn in human history

Historian Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of the forthcoming book One Planet, Many Worlds (Brandeis University Press, 2023), will lecture on “The Planetary Turn in Human History” on April 13 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Chakrabarty is the Lawrence … Continue reading

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The future according to Kim Stanley Robinson

Award-winning science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, author of more than 20 books, will present “The Future of Climate, Technology, and Society” on March 29 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Robinson is best known for his Mars … Continue reading

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The political role of journalism

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, who has served as a CBS political analyst, will give a talk at Boston College on March 15 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. A journalist who covers U.S. politics, public policy, elections, and … Continue reading

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A Journey Below the Mason Dixon

Imani Perry, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, will talk about her bestselling book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, at Boston College on March 1 … Continue reading

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Father Ed, spiritual sponsor for AA’s co-founder

Edward Dowling, S.J. (1898-1960), was called “the greatest and most gentle soul to walk this planet” by Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson. Dawn Eden Goldstein, author of a new biography titled Father Ed: The Story of Bill W.’s Spiritual Sponsor … Continue reading

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Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Magician’

Irish novelist Colm Tóibín will present “Writing Thomas Mann: Fact into Fiction” at Boston College on February 22 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Tóibín’s acclaimed 2021 novel, The Magician, dramatizes the life of Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas … Continue reading

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A Catholic intellectual amid many religions

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School, will present the Candlemas Lecture titled “On the Edge: Reflections on Being a Catholic Intellectual amid Many Religions” at Boston College on … Continue reading

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The Seductions of Sovereignty

Seyla Benhabib, a senior research scholar and adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School and an affiliate faculty member in the Columbia University Department of Philosophy and a senior fellow at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, will … Continue reading

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The cost of racism

Economic and social policy expert Heather McGhee, author of the best-selling book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, will present a Lowell Humanities Series Lecture on October 26 at 7 p.m. in … Continue reading

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The centenary of the Irish Civil War

The Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up to the establishment of an independent Ireland—has long persisted in the national Irish memory, despite efforts to downplay or outright erase it from official discourse. Irish historian Síobhra Aiken has written … Continue reading

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