Category Archives: Guest Authors
Emma Donoghue
Best-selling author Emma Donoghue will present “Slippery Characters: Writing Historical Fiction in the Information Age” on April 9 at 7 p.m. in Fulton Hall, room 511. Donoghue is the author of the internationally acclaimed novel Room, among many other works. Her newest novel is Frog … Continue reading
Oscar winner Oliver Stone
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, authors of the book The Untold History of the United States, will speak on “Bush and Obama: The Age of Terror” at Boston College’s Robsham Theater on April 5. Stone and Kuznick have a companion TV … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Authors
Tagged film, government, history, Institute for the Liberal Arts, presidency, Sociology Dept
Leave a comment
Evangelicalism & Ulster literature
Boston College Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Terence Brown will present “Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism & Ulster Literature” on Apr. 3 at 4:30 p.m. in the Thompson Room of Burns Library. Brown will talk about some significant conversion narratives, such as … Continue reading
Thoreau & climate change
Biologist Richard B. Primack will present “Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Concord” on Apr. 1 at 6:30 p.m. in Fulton Hall, Room 511. Primack is the author of Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods (University of Chicago Press), which uses … Continue reading
Reading by Zadie Smith
The Boston College will host a reading from award-winning writer Zadie Smith on Apr. 1 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Smith’s first novel, White Teeth, was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, Guardian First Book Award, James … Continue reading
Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy will present “Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives” with Duke University Professor Ruth Grant on Mar. 28 at 4:00 p.m. in Higgins 300. Grant is a professor of political science at Duke University, specializing … Continue reading
Cursed
Author Anne Marie Kitz will deliver a lecture on “Angels, Demons, Cain, and the Madness of King Saul” on Mar. 26 at 5:30 p.m. in the School of Theology and Ministry Library Auditorium on BC’s Brighton Campus. Kitz is the author of Cursed are You! The Phenomenology of … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Authors
Tagged ancient texts, Bible, School of Theology and Ministry
Leave a comment
An Inner History of the New America
The Boston College Lowell Humanities Series will present George Packer, best-selling author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), on Mar. 26 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Packer won the National Book … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Authors, Lowell Humanities Series
Tagged National Book Award winner, nonfiction
Leave a comment
Jewish thinking
Author Jonathan Decter will present “Jewish Thinking about Islam and Christianity in Medieval Spain” on Mar. 25 at 5 p.m. in Stokes Hall 195S. Decter is associate professor and the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic studies at Brandeis University. His research focuses on Jewish literature in … Continue reading
Poet Franz Wright
A reading and Q&A with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright will be held on Mar. 20 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. His most recent collection of poetry is F: Poems. His other works include Kindertotenwald, Wheeling Motel, The Beforelife, God’s … Continue reading
