Understanding Love and Responsibility
After years of counseling young adults and married couples, Father Karol Wojtyla (Saint John Paul II) published Love and Responsibility. This classic work is not an easy book to read as the language is often high and theoretical. Boston College Carroll School of Management Associate Professor of the Practice Richard Spinello has published Understanding Love and Responsibility (Pauline Books & Media, 2014), a companion piece that allows readers to better understand St. John Paul II’s rich, thought-provoking and challenging work. Based on the new English translation of Love and Responsibility, Spinello’s commentary will enable readers to discover the beauty of Saint John Paul II’s timeless work. Spinello is also the author of The Genius of John Paul II: The Great Pope’s Moral Wisdom and The Encyclicals of John Paul II: An Introduction and Commentary, along with numerous other books and articles on ethical theory and applied ethics. More on his book in this blog post from The Pilot.
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“Genius” in the house
MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner Alison Bechdel will give a talk at 7 p.m. on Feb. 11 in Gasson Hall, room 100 under the sponsorship of the Lowell Humanities Series. Bechdel is a cartoonist best known for her comic strip “Dykes To Watch Out For,” which was self-syndicated from 1983 to 2008. Her memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, was named a Time magazine Best Book of the year, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and was adapted into an award-winning musical that opened Off-Broadway in 2013. Her newest memoir is Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama. Bechdel is also the Marsh Professor at Large at the University of Vermont. NPR interview
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The Doctor, Undone
James Kyung-Jin Lee, author of Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism, will speak Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. in Stokes 195S. Lee is the chair of the Asian American Studies Department at the University of California-Irvine and an Episcopal priest. He co-edited a special issue of Amerasia Journal on “The State fo Illness and Disability in Asian America.” His talk will be on the rise of physician chaplaincy in Asian American medical narratives.
Boston Strong
Boston Magazine has published an exclusive excerpt from the new book Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph over Tragedy (ForeEdge/University Press of New England, 2015), co-written by Boston College alumnus Dave Wedge. In the book, Wedge and co-author Casey Sherman use their journalism skills to tell the inside story of the Boston Marathon bombing. The book is based on extensive interviews with first responders, detectives assigned to the Tsarnaev brothers manhunt, recovering victims and those who lost loved ones. A film based on the book is in development. Another Boston College alumnus, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, wrote the book’s foreword.
Fink appearance postponed
Due to the weather, the talk by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink scheduled for Jan. 28 has been postponed. Stay tuned to BC Humanities Series website for updates.
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Two Faces of Political Islam
Boston College Professor of Political Science Ali Banuazizi will present “Politicization of Religion or Sacralization of Politics: Two Faces of Political Islam” on January 28 at 12:00 noon at the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at 24 Quincy Road. Banuazizi’s research focuses on the political cultures of the Middle East; comparative study of religion, civil society, and politics in the Middle East; and Iran’s social history and contemporary domestic politics and foreign relations. He is the editor of several volumes, including The New Geopolitics of Central Asia and Its Borderlands. He is the founding editor of the journal Iranian Studies. An RSVP for the public lecture is required. Email susan.richard@bc.edu.
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink will talk about her best-selling book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Random House/Crown, 2013), at Boston College on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. The culmination of six years of reporting, Five Days at Memorial recounts the life and death choices made at a New Orleans hospital in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The book was honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ridenhour Book Prize, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among others. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series. A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, Fink is also the author of War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival, which is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Fink holds a PhD and a medical degree from Stanford University. She is a correspondent for the New York Times. Reviews of Five Days: The Guardian | Entertainment Weekly | New York Times
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Book review by Stephen Pope
Boston College Theologian Stephen Pope has written a review of Evolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation, edited by Martin A. Nowak and Sarah Coakley, for Commonweal magazine. In his review, Pope writes “Coakley and Nowak’s book provides an excellent resource for anyone who wants to learn about current thinking at the nexus of evolutionary theory, ethics, and theology…This is one of the best books on this topic in the past decade.” Pope is the author of Human Evolution and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press).
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