Category Archives: Guest Authors
Vocation of the Catholic Church
Paul Lakeland, the Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., professor of Catholic Studies and chair of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University, will speak on “The Vocation of the Church: One Calling, Many Roles” on Oct. 28 at 5:30 … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic, Church in the 21st Century Center, Theology Dept., vocation
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The birth of American federalism
Scholars will join author and University of Chicago law professor Alison LaCroix to discuss her book The Ideological Origins of American Federalism. Oct. 27, 4:30 p.m., McGuinn 121. Sponsor: Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy
The extraordinary rise of living alone
Sociologist Eric Klinenberg, author of Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, will speak on campus on Oct. 26 in the Murray Function Room at 7 p.m. about … Continue reading
Segregation and expectation
Anthropologist Nancy Abelmann will discuss her book, The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problem of Segregation, which describes the tensions between the ideals of higher education and the experiences of Korean American undergraduates at the University of Illinois, … Continue reading
Belfast Boys
Goldsmiths, University of London Professor Richard Grayson will speak on his book, Belfast Boys – How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War, at 4 p.m. on Oct. 18 in the Thompson Room of Burns … Continue reading
Politics & culture
Wall Street Journal columnist and author Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, will speak on campus Oct. 19 at 4:30 p.m. in Robsham Theater. Her appearance is part of the Carroll School’s Winston Center for … Continue reading
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Meet Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman has written about Thai boxing, Russian ice palaces, and comedy traffic school for The New Yorker. She contributes to London Review of Books, n+1, and the Nation. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books … Continue reading
After 9/11
University of California at Davis Professor Sunaina Maira will discuss her book, Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11, a study of South Asian Muslim immigrant youth and issues of citizenship and empire after 9/11, on Oct. 6 at 4:30 … Continue reading
Paging Heidi Montag
When is the modification of our appearance empowering and when is it a sign of weakness? Sociologist Victoria Pitts-Taylor, author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture, offers a ground-breaking analysis of the normalization of cosmetic surgery and … Continue reading
What’s your heart calling you to do?
One of the leading voices on personal vocation, John Neafsey, author of A Sacred Voice is Calling: Personal Vocation and Social Conscience, will discuss what it means to hear a call in the heart and respond to vocation by becoming more … Continue reading
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