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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Prisoners’ votes and judges’ powers
Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy will present “Prisoners’ Votes and Judges’ Powers: Foreign Parables and Home Truths” with John Finnis on Mar. 13 in Fulton Hall, room 511 at 5:30 p.m. Finnis is a professor of law at both Oxford University and the University of Notre Dame. His work centers on legal scholarship and the philosophy of law, and he teaches courses on jurisprudence, political theory, and constitutional law. He is the author of Natural Law and Natural Rights, Fundamentals of Ethics, Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory and The Collected Essays of John Finnis.
Tracy Kidder, new date
*This event was originally scheduled for Feb. 5, but had to be postponed due to weather. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder will present “Another Set of Eyes” at Boston College on Mar. 12 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Kidder is the author of House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Home Town, My Detachment, Strength in What Remains, Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Soul of a New Machine, which won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. His newest book, Good Prose, is about creating good nonfiction as well as the 40-year association between Kidder and editor Richard Todd, who co-authors Good Prose. It is an inspiring book about writing and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. It is a succinct, authoritative, and entertaining arbiter of standards in contemporary writing, offering guidance for the professional writer and the beginner alike. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series |Video of Kidder and Dr. Paul Farmer, the subject of Mountains Beyond Mountains, at Boston College in 2004.
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Lenten exercises
In his timely new book, The Ignatian Workout for Lent (Loyola Press), Boston College alumnus Tim Muldoon offers 40 brief exercises—organized according to the four weeks of prayer from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius—that can be used by readers to transform their Lenten experience. Each exercise includes a short Scripture reading, meditation, prayer suggestion and opportunity for action. The website IgnatianSpirituality.com is hosting an online Lenten retreat with weekly audio reflections by Muldoon, accompanied by suggestions for prayer and action. Muldoon, who teaches at BC and works in the University’s Division of Mission and Ministry, is also the author of The Ignatian Workout, Longing to Love and co-author (with Sue Muldoon) of Six Sacred Rules for Families: A Spirituality for the Home.
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Kaveny on Daniel Callahan
In a book review of bioethicist Daniel Callahan’s memoir and collection of essays, Libby Professor Cathleen Kaveny of BC’s Theology Department and Law School writes “For a model of how to argue rigorously, perceptively and non-defensively about difficult issues of broad import, Catholic moralists would do well to turn to the work of Daniel Callahan.” Read the review in America magazine.
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Book award for Hargreaves
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has announced that they will honor Lynch School of Education Thomas More Brennan Professor Andy Hargreaves and co-author Michael Fullan with its 2014 Outstanding Book Award for their book Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School. The award recognizes exemplary books that make a significant contribution to the knowledge base of educator preparation or of teaching and learning with implications for educator preparation. Professional Capital draws on examples from the United States and other countries to offer a vision of a stronger teaching profession, rejecting the current U.S. trend to focus on narrowly defined learning outcomes. The AACTE Committee on Research and Dissemination, which reviewed nominations for the award, praised the book for its conceptual richness and its elegant writing. Read more.
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