Shakespeare
The Australian, Australia’s largest-selling national paper, has named Shakespeare, Not Stirred as one of the best books of 2015. The book is co-authored by BC Associate Professor of English Caroline Bicks and Michelle Ephraim. The book has generated buzz as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death approaches in 2016. Read more in the Wall Street Journal.[See the 9/2/15 BC Bookmarks for more on Shakespeare, Not Stirred.]
Franck Salameh
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies Franck Salameh gave a book talk at the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School on his latest work, Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese “Young Phoenician” (Lexington Books, 2015). Present at the book talk was Virginie Corm, the daughter of his biography subject. Watch the book talk. [See the 7/30/15 BC Bookmarks for more on this book.]
Lykes named co-editor of journal
Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice Associate Director M. Brinton Lykes, a professor of community-cultural psychology in the Lynch School of Education, has been named co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice. The journal publishes high quality refereed articles in the field of transitional justice, which it defines as “the study of those strategies employed by states and international institutions to deal with a legacy of human rights abuses, and to effect social reconstruction in the wake of widespread violence.” In selecting Lykes for the position, the journal cited her transitional justice work, specifically in regard to the sexual violence against Mayan women in contexts of armed conflict and post-conflict transitions, and their struggles for truth, justice, healing, and reparations, and human rights violations related to migration, including deportation, focusing on their effects on women and children. Boston College will serve as the journal’s institutional home for the next five years, supported by the CHRIJ and the Lynch School. More from the CHRIJ.
Jesuit authors
Books written by two Jesuit authors have recently been reviewed in leading Catholic magazines. University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics by Canisius Professor James F. Keenan, SJ was reviewed in US Catholic magazine. Fr. Keenan is the director of the Jesuit Institute at BC. The Catholic Church and Argentina’s Dirty War by Sociology Assistant Professor Gustavo Morello, SJ was reviewed in Commonweal. Boston College Libraries has posted interviews with Fr. Morello and Fr. Keenan where each talks about his book.
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Tagged Argentina, ethics, Jesuit author, Jesuit Institute, politics, Sociology Dept
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Elements goes digital
Last week marked a milestone for Elements, the Boston College undergraduate research journal: its 10th anniversary and the launch of its digital platform. The publication has collaborated with Boston College Libraries to become an open access journal operating under a Creative Commons license and is recognized as a digital publication by the Library of Congress. Funded by the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Elements is a bi-annual publication that showcases original research completed by Boston College undergraduates in the humanities, natural sciences or social studies. Elements Editor-in-Chief is Marissa Marandola, Class of 2016. The latest issue of Elements explores the implications of disruptive innovation in a variety of contexts, in an attempt to reconcile the vestiges of the past with the realities of the present. Here is a listing of the contributing authors. | Fall 2015 Elements.
The liberal arts & China
Woods College of Advancing Studies Assistant Dean You Guo Jiang, SJ, is the author of Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society: A New Perspective on Chinese Higher Education (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014). This work provides a unique focus on the re-emergence of liberal arts education in China. Through the extensive use of first hand materials relating to the liberal arts and current viewpoints of Chinese scholars and higher education leaders, Fr. Jiang concludes that China must implement a good liberal arts education program to form responsible global citizens. Learn more via an interview with Fr. Jiang by Nina Bogdanovsky of Boston College Libraries.
Lincoln & the 13th Ammendment
This weekend marks the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. In his new book, Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015), Boston College alumnus Christian G. Samito examines how Lincoln’s opposition to amending the United States Constitution shaped his political views before he became president, and how constitutional arguments overcame Lincoln’s objections, turning him into a supporter of the Thirteenth Amendment by 1864. Well into his presidency, Lincoln argued that emancipation should take place only on the state level because the federal government had no jurisdiction to control slavery in the states. Between January 1863 and mid-1864, however, Lincoln came to support a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery because it worked within the constitutional structure and preserved key components of American constitutionalism in the face of Radical Republican schemes. Samito’s previous publications include Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era. Read the introduction to Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, constitution, History Department
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