Category Archives: Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics
Eric Klinenberg
Bestselling author and public sociologist Eric Klinenberg, the Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, will present the Jane Jacobs Lecture at Boston College on November 5 at … Continue reading
Journalist Caitlin Dickerson on deportation
Caitlin Dickerson, an award-winning writer for The Atlantic, will speak on “Deported: The Price of Our Prosperity” at Boston College on October 29 at 7 p.m in Gasson 100. Dickerson won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, the Livingston … Continue reading
Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad
Human rights activist Nadia Murad, a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, will be the featured speaker at the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics’ Clough Colloquium on February 22 in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. Her memoir, … Continue reading
Poverty, American style
Matthew Desmond, a Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient, will give a talk on his latest bestseller, Poverty, by America (Crown/Penguin Random House, 2023). Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly … Continue reading
The cost of racism
Economic and social policy expert Heather McGhee, author of the best-selling book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, will present a Lowell Humanities Series Lecture on October 26 at 7 p.m. in … Continue reading
Policing the American city
Rosa Brooks, the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center and founder of Georgetown’s Innovative Policing Program, will deliver the Winston Center’s Chambers Lecture on March 1 at 6 p.m. in Gasson 100. Brooks … Continue reading
Isabel Wilkerson
Author and journalist Isabel Wilkerson, the first woman of African American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, will give a talk on her bestselling book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Random House, 2020), on September 8 at 7 … Continue reading
Ambassador Susan Rice
Susan E. Rice, who served as National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama (2013-2017) and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2009-2013), will speak at Boston College on Oct. 2 at 4 p.m. Her appearance is part of the Winston … Continue reading
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Chicago’s Cabrini-Green
Ben Austen, the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (HarperCollins, 2018), will give a talk at 6 p.m. on April 9 in Gasson Hall, room 301. Austen’s book, the story of Chicago’s public housing development, intertwines … Continue reading
Dispatches from the border
Francisco Cantú, an agent for the United States Border Patrol from 2008 to 2012, will discuss his memoir, The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border (Riverhead Books, 2018), on Mar. 27 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. … Continue reading
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