Beatlebone
Irish author Kevin Barry will read from his new novel, Beatlebone (Canongate, 2015), on Nov. 18 at 1 p.m. in Connolly House at 300 Hammond St. Beatlebone imagines a trip by former Beatle John Lennon to Ireland’s west coast in 1978. Earlier this month he won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize for Beatlebone. The prize, established in 2013, honors British and Irish writers for “fiction that breaks the mold or opens up new possibilities for the novel form.” Barry’s previous work includes City of Bohane, which won the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Registered is requested. Sponsor: Irish Studies Program.
Novelists and politicians
Boston College’s Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies James H. Murphy will present “Novelists and Politicians in 19th-Century Ireland” on Nov. 18 at 4:30 p.m. in the Thompson Room of Burns Library. Murphy is a leading scholar of 19th-century Ireland who has authored, or edited, more than a dozen books, including Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria and Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age. He is a professor of English and a former director of Irish Studies at DePaul University, Chicago. A reception will follow in the Irish Room of Burns Library. Sponsors: Center for Irish Programs and BC University Libraries. Read a Q&A with him in the Boston College Chronicle.
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Tagged BC Libraries, Center for Irish Programs, Ireland, Irish Studies
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Caring for women in regions affected by war
Nurse-midwife Linda Robinson, a Boston College alumna whose work has taken her across the globe, will present “Nurse-Midwifery Care to Women in Areas Affected by War: Addressing Global Public Health,” on Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 210. Robinson has volunteered for the Peace Corps and Doctors Without Borders. Her memoir, Sunday Morning, Shamwana: A Midwife’s Letters from the Field (Pine Knoll Press LLC, 2012), recounts her assignment in a remote village in Democratic Republic of Congo deeply affected by a decade of war and famine. At once heart-wrenching and humorous, joyful and filled with grief, her riveting narrative allows readers to encounter the realities of childbirth and survival in a time of war. Robinson shares her own horror, frustration and small victories while questioning the limits of human strength, the role of international aid and the meaning of her place in the world. Sponsors: Connell School of Nursing, Medical Humanities, and BC Public Health Sequence.
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Tagged Connell School of Nursing, health care, Medical Humanities, memoir
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An unfinished council
In spite of its impact, Vatican II was, in many ways, an unfinished council, according to Joseph Chair of Catholic Systematic Theology Richard R. Gaillardetz. He says the council bishops were able to establish key pillars in the construction of a new vision for the church of our time, but, for various reasons, they were not able to draw those pillars together into a coherent unified structure. In his new book, An Unfinished Council: Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism (Liturgical Press, 2015), he describes both the council’s building project itself and the challenges facing the church today if we are to complete the project begun 50 years ago. Gaillardetz is past president of the of the Catholic Theological Society of America. His previous publications include Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II and When the Magisterium Intervenes…The Magisterium and Theologians in Today’s Church.
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Tagged Catholic Church, Theology Department, Vatican II
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