Theologian Mary Catherine Hilkert, O. P. will present “The Word of God Entrusted to the Entire Church and the Voices of Women” on February 8 at 7:30 p.m. Sister Hilkert is the author of Naming Grace: Preaching and the Sacramental Imagination and Speaking with Authority: Catherine of Siena and the Voices of Women Today. She has been honored with Washington Theological Union’s Sophia Award for Theological Excellence in service of ministry, Barry University’s Yves Congar Award for Theological Excellence, Dominican University’s Veritas Award, and the Ann O’Hara Graff Memorial Award from the Women’s Constructive Theology Seminar of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series.
Voices of women
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Helping English language learners
Lynch School of Education Professor Maria Estela Brisk‘s book Engaging Students in Academic Literacies (Routledge, 2015) is drawn from her experiences helping teachers and students in the Boston Public Schools. Brisk is one of the foremost experts on bilingual education. Her text provides specific information to plan and carry out genre-based writing instruction in English for K-5 students within various content areas. Her approach to teaching writing and academic language is effective in addressing the persistent achievement gap between English language learners and “mainstream” students, especially in the context of current reforms in the U.S.
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The Dogs of Littlefield
The latest novel by Suzanne Berne, a part-time faculty member in the English Department, is a comedy of manners that explores the unease behind the manicured lawns of suburban America. In The Dogs of Littlefield (Simon & Schuster, 2016), someone is poisoning the dogs of Littlefield, Massachusetts, a leafy and charming town named one of the best places to live in America. With suspense, satirical social commentary and in-depth character portraits, Berne reveals the discontent concealed behind suburbia’s picket fences. First published in the UK in 2013, The Dogs of Littlefield has now been published in America and recently has been reviewed by the New York Times, Boston Globe and Washington Post, among other outlets. Berne was awarded the Orange Prize for her first novel, A Crime in the Neighborhood. She also is the author of The Ghost at the Table and Missing Lucile.
Fr. Keenan talk on university ethics
Canisius Professor James Keenan, S.J., will discuss his latest book, University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics, at a Feb. 2 luncheon event sponsored by the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. The event will be held in St. Mary’s Hall, Room 128, from 12:00 noon to 1:15 p.m. RSVP is required. Fr. Keenan is the director of the Jesuit Institute and leads the University’s Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program. Read more about his book in this 5/20/15 BC Bookmarks post. Editor’s Update: This event is now full and has a wait list.
Sallis in China
Frederick J. Adelmann, S.J., Professor of Philosophy John Sallis traveled to Tongji University in Shanghai where he spoke about philosophical exchanges between American and Chinese philosophers. His lectures were organized in connection with the publication of a Chinese translation of his book Chorology.
Children and AIDS
While the number of children orphaned due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic is depressingly large, the percentage of these living in Sub-Saharan Africa is downright staggering–anywhere from 85 to 90 percent. Historically, much of the research around orphans in Africa has been focused on treatment and prevention. But there is a glaring omission to the research story: defining vulnerability in African children orphaned due to HIV/AIDS and finding interventions to improve the welfare of these children. The new book Children and AIDS (Ashgate Publishing Company, 2016), co-edited by School of Social Work Associate Professor Margaret Lombe, highlights collaborations of academics with service providers, with human rights groups and children themselves. The book looks at studies and interventions in Botswana, Zambia and Kenya. Lombe hopes that the book will be a useful resource for courses on vulnerability in children and human rights, challenging academics and students alike to question existing understandings of vulnerability, and inspire collaborations that build hope for the future of Africa’s children. Boston College alumna Chiedza Mufunde (MSW ’14) and doctoral student Aakanksha Sinha contributed chapters to the book. More from the blog Innovate@BCSocialWork.
Puzzled
Puzzled?!: An Introduction to Philosophizing (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2015) by Philosophy Assistant Professor Richard Kenneth Atkins seamlessly fuses two traditional approaches to the study of philosophy at the introductory level. It is thematic, examining fundamental issues in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of religion, and it is also historical, introducing major philosophical arguments that have arisen throughout the history of Western philosophy. Each of its chapters begins with a traditional argument of a thoroughly puzzling kind: a valid philosophical argument with highly plausible premises but a surprising conclusion. The remainder of the chapter shows how major innovations in the history of philosophy arise as logical responses to that argument.
Jews of Lebanon
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies Franck Salameh sheds light on the rarely told story of Lebanese Jews by retelling accounts of modern Lebanese history in an essay for the Journal of the Middle East and Africa. The article is part of Salameh’s current book project, Lebanon’s Jewish Community; Fragments of Lives Arrested, forthcoming from Palgrave MacMillan in 2017.
Thinking Prayer
In Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), Assistant Professor of Theology Andrew Prevot presents a new, integrated approach to Christian theology and spirituality, focusing on the centrality of prayer to theology in the modern age. Prevot offers critical interpretations of Martin Heidegger, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Johann Baptist Metz, Ignacio Ellacuría, and James Cone, among others. His analysis of these notable philosophical and theological thinkers’ responses to modernity through the theme of prayer charts a new spiritual path through the crises of modernity.
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka
Alumnus Lev Golinkin will discuss his memoir, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, at BC on January 27 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Golinkin came to the US as a child refugee from the Soviet Union in 1990. His op-eds and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Salon, among other outlets. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series, with funding from the Gerson Family Lecture Fund, established by John A. and Jean N. Gerson, P’14.
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