Category Archives: Guest Authors
Colum McCann reading
Best-selling author Colum McCann will give a reading of his fiction on Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. McCann is the author of Let the Great World Spin, a National Book Award winner, and most recently, … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, Institute for the Liberal Arts, National Book Award winner
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Common ground
The Boston College Carroll School of Management’s Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics will host an appearance and book signing by former US Senator Olympia Snowe on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. During her 18 … Continue reading
Post-Western Christianity
The Boston College Institute for the Liberal Arts will present Post-Western Christianity and the Post-Christian West with Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University on Feb. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Institute for the Liberal Arts, religion
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T.S. Eliot and anti-Semitism
Jayme Stayer, S.J. will present “T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and the Problem of Cumulative Effect” on Feb. 7 at noon in Corcoran Commons. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested at cjlearning@bc.edu. Jayme Stayer, S.J. is currently an … Continue reading
Kidder on “Another Set of Eyes”
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder will present “Another Set of Eyes” at Boston College on Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Kidder is the author of House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Home Town, My Detachment, Strength in What Remains, Mountains Beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Lowell Humanities Series, nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize winner
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Charity, a sacramental action
Author Gary A. Anderson will present “I Give, Therefore I Am: The Primacy of Charity in the Christian Life” on Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. in the Cadigan Alumni Center, Brighton Campus. Anderson, the Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at … Continue reading
Bach, reinvented
Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs Senior Fellow Paul Elie will present “Technician of the Sacred: J.S. Bach” on Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Elie’s book Reinventing Bach tells the story of … Continue reading
Invasion: Diaries and Memories of the War in Iraq
A powerful multimedia exhibition that combines photographs, diary entries and a journalistic account of the War in Iraq is on display at the Boston College Law Library throughout the month of November. Based on the diary of Boston College Law … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston College Law School, Iraq, memoir, military, war
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The American stage
An expert in the history of American theater, Heather S. Nathans will present “Seeing Ourselves Through Others’ Eyes: Struggling with Stereotypes on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage” on Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Nathans is the … Continue reading
Stein Ringen: What is power?
Social policy expert Stein Ringen will discuss “What is Power?” at Boston College on Oct. 31 at noon at 10 Stone Ave. [Space is limited. Advance RSVP required.] Ringen is emeritus professor of sociology and social policy at Green Templeton … Continue reading
