Category Archives: Guest Authors
“Yeats & The Irish Revolutionary Era”
The Boston College 2015 Flatley Lecturer John Kelly will present “Yeats & The Irish Revolutionary Era, 1912-1923” on Apr. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the Thompson Room of Burns Library. A leading expert on W.B. Yeats, Kelly is a longtime professor of English at Oxford … Continue reading
Poetry Festival
Boston College will once again host the Greater Boston Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Festival, an annual showcase of student verse. The event features original work by students from some 20 area colleges and universities. Boston College will be represented by Carroll School of Management … Continue reading
Posted in Boston College Authors, Guest Authors, Students
Tagged English Department, poetry
Leave a comment
Coates event postponed
EVENT CHANGE: The Boston College Office of the Provost has announced that the Apr. 13 talk by Ta-Nehisi Coates has been postponed until next fall.
Posted in Guest Authors
Leave a comment
What makes Gatsby great?
Art historian and author Charles Scribner III — the fourth generation of Scribners to oversee F. Scott Fitzgerald’s works at the family publishing house — will present “From Paradise to Party Lights: Fitzgerald and Gatsby” on Apr. 15 at 5:30 p.m. … Continue reading
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 Apr. 13 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. The culmination of six years … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Authors, Lowell Humanities Series
Tagged ethics, natural disaster, New Orleans, nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize winner
Leave a comment
The Case for Reparations
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates will present “The Case for Reparations” at Boston College on Apr. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Murray Room of the Yawkey Center. Coates outlined his thesis in a 2014 cover story for The Atlantic. His piece reignited … Continue reading
On the Front Lines with Lara Logan
The Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics will present an evening with Emmy Award-winning journalist Lara Logan on Apr. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. Logan is a correspondent for “60 Minutes” and chief foreign … Continue reading
Dinaw Mengestu
Award-winning writer Dinaw Mengestu, whose works chronicle the African diaspora in America, will speak on “Politics and Aesthetics in Literature,” at Boston College on Apr. 8 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Since the debut of his bestselling novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven … Continue reading
Positive peer pressure
Pulitzer Prize winner Tina Rosenberg will present “Harnessing Peer Pressure for Behavior Change” on Mar. 31 at 7:30 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. A veteran journalist, Rosenberg is one of the founders of the Solutions Journalism Network, which is committed … Continue reading
Boston/Cambridge and the Making of American Gothic
Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin and director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection at Harvard University, will present “Boston/Cambridge and the Making of American Gothic” on Mar. 26 at 5:30 p.m. in Stokes Hall South, … Continue reading
