Category Archives: Guest Authors
‘His Name Is George Floyd’
Robert Samuels, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Viking/Penguin Random House, 2022), will deliver the first Lowell Humanities Series lecture of the semester on September 13 … Continue reading
Rough Sleepers
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder will return to campus September 7 to address BC first-year students, who were asked to read his critically acclaimed new book, Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People (Random … Continue reading
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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
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
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
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
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
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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