Cursed
Author Anne Marie Kitz will deliver a lecture on “Angels, Demons, Cain, and the Madness of King Saul” on Mar. 26 at 5:30 p.m. in the School of Theology and Ministry Library Auditorium on BC’s Brighton Campus. Kitz is the author of Cursed are You! The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts (Eisenbrauns). Sponsor: School of Theology and Ministry. Free registration required.
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Tagged ancient texts, Bible, School of Theology and Ministry
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An Inner History of the New America
The Boston College Lowell Humanities Series will present George Packer, best-selling author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), on Mar. 26 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Packer won the National Book Award for nonfiction for The Unwinding. He is also the author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq; Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade; Blood of the Liberals, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award; The Village of Waiting, a memoir of his years in the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa; The Half Man, and Central Square. His play, “Betrayed,” won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. He is also a writer for The New Yorker.
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Tagged National Book Award winner, nonfiction
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Jewish thinking
Author Jonathan Decter will present “Jewish Thinking about Islam and Christianity in Medieval Spain” on Mar. 25 at 5 p.m. in Stokes Hall 195S. Decter is associate professor and the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic studies at Brandeis University. His research focuses on Jewish literature in the Islamic World during the medieval period and in Sephardic Studies. He is the author of Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe (Indiana University Press), which was awarded the 2007 Salo W. Baron prize for best first book in Jewish Studies. Sponsor: The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.
Working with Millennials
In her new book, You Raised Us—Now Work With Us: Millennials, Career Success, and Building Strong Workplace Teams (American Bar Association), BC alumna Lauren Stiller Rikleen offers insights, detailed research, and practical advice to help the generations understand each other better and recognize the impact of their own behaviors on the workplace. You Raised Us can help Millennials navigate their way through the complexities of today’s work environment, while offering Boomers and Gen Xers practical recommendations for effective leadership and talent development. She discussed her book this week on NECN. Rikleen is an executive-in-residence at the Boston College Center for Work & Family and president of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership. Her other publications are Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women’s Success in the Law and Success Strategies for Women Lawyers.
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Tagged Center for Work & Family, generations, millennials, workplace
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Poet Franz Wright
A reading and Q&A with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright will be held on Mar. 20 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. His most recent collection of poetry is F: Poems. His other works include Kindertotenwald, Wheeling Motel, The Beforelife, God’s Silence, and Walking to Martha’s Vineyard, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Sponsor: Stylus, Boston College’s undergraduate arts and literary magazine.
Men over 60 and at work
In her new book, Men Still at Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers), Elizabeth F. Fideler, a research fellow at BC’s Sloan Center on Aging & Work, explores the reasons why many men are continuing to work well beyond the traditional retirement age. Filled with profiles of older working men, Men Still at Work explores issues such as masculinity and the “need to provide,” as well as economic issues and job satisfaction. Fideler is also the author of Women Still at Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job. Fideler will discuss her new book at the Harvard Book Store on Mar. 20 at 7 p.m.
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Life as he knows it
Literary scholar Michael Bérubé will present “Bioethics: Too Important to be Left to Bioethicists” on Mar. 19 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Bérubé is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches cultural studies and American literature. He is the author of several books on cultural studies, disability rights, liberal politics, and debates in higher education, including Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics and What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “ Bias” in Higher Education. His book Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child details his experience raising a son with Down syndrome. Sponsor: Boston College Lowell Humanities Series.
Reflections on Honneth and Hegelianism
The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College will present “Critical Theory as Political Philosophy? Reflections on Honneth and Hegelianism” with Robert Pippin of the University of Chicago on Mar. 18 at 5:30 p.m. in Higgins Hall, Room 300. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Chicago. Working primarily within the German philosophical tradition, Pippin has written extensively on self-consciousness, conceptual change, freedom, and issues within political philosophy. He is a leading scholar of several philosophers, including Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marcel Proust, Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, and Henry James. Notably, however, his scholarship also extends to both ancient philosophy and critical theory, and his works have explored several interdisciplinary subjects, such as literature, modern art, and film. His most recent books are After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism and Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy. His other titles include Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture; Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy, and Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy.
The Humanistic tradition of education
Georgetown University Professor of Theology John W. O’Malley, S.J. will present “The Humanistic Tradition of Education: What’s the Point?” on Mar. 18 at 4:30 p.m in the Murray Room of Yawkey Center. Drawing on the origins and ethos out of which the Jesuit commitment to education grew, Fr. O’Malley will describe the fundamental options that orient Jesuit education and that animate a flexible and adaptable approach to education in the circumstances of the contemporary university. The event is being held as part of the Arts & Sciences Dean’s Colloquium. Fr. O’Malley is the author of many books, including The First Jesuits, Four Cultures of the West, What Happened at Vatican II, Trent: What Happened at the Council, and A History of the Popes, among others.
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