Poetry Days: Tracy K. Smith
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Rev. Dr. Christian M. Rutishauser, S.J., provincial of the Swiss Jesuits, will deliver the Third Annual John Paul II Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations on Feb. 16 at 4 p.m. in Stokes Hall, S195. Fr. Rutishauser’s talk is titled “The Jewishness of Jesus: Renewing Christian Appreciation.” Fr. Rutishauser is the author of The Human Condition and the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and lectures on Jewish studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus in Munich. He is a member of the Commission for Jewish-Christian Relations of the Swiss and German Bishops Conference and Vatican delegate at the International Liaison Committee for the Relations with the Jews. Sponsor: The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.
History through the lens of comic books
BC students in Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson’s Making History Public class have created “Revealing America’s History Through Comics”– an exhibition based on the historical study of comic books from the 1940s to present day. Using popular Marvel and DC titles, the students examined a range of major historical events and societal trends of those decades. Students were aided by reference librarian Justine Sundaram and staff of the Boston College Libraries. The comic books come from an immense collection donated to BC’s Burns Library by Carroll School of Management Professor Edward J. Kane. “Revealing America’s History Through Comics” is on display in Stokes Hall until August. Selections from the Edward J. Kane Comics Collection are on display in the O’Neill Library Reading Room until the end of February. Read more in the Boston College Chronicle.
Graver on writing & teaching
Boston College Professor of English Elizabeth Graver, the author of several books, including The End of the Point and Unravelling, was among a group of English professors/authors recently polled on what they love about teaching and writing. Graver said her favorite moments teaching involve…inquisition and wonder, such as …discussing a thought-provoking novel, all with smart, questioning, adventurous young people as companions. Read more at NerdScholar.
BPL talk by Peter Gray
Boston College research psychologist Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn, will give a talk on “The Biology of Education: How Children Learn Through Self-Directed Play and Exploration” on Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Johnson Conference Room #3 . In the talk, Gray will discuss the importance of questioning the traditionally accepted “imprisonment schooling model,” and the importance of autonomy and self-direction in education. Sponsor: Bay State Learning Cooperative.
Talk by US diplomat
William Rugh, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and the United Arab Emirates, will speak at Boston College on Feb. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in Gasson Hall, Room 305. Rugh, whose career in US foreign service spanned 30 years, is the author or editor of several books on U.S. foreign relations and the Arab world, including Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio and Television in Arab Politics, The Practice of Public Diplomacy: Confronting Challenges Abroad and the forthcoming Frontline Public Diplomacy. He currently serves as the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Professor of Public Diplomacy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. Sponsor: Islamic Civilization and Societies Program
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Colum McCann reading
Best-selling author Colum McCann will give a reading of his fiction on Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. McCann is the author of Let the Great World Spin, a National Book Award winner, and most recently, TransAtlantic. McCann’s work has been published in over 35 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Tin House, and Bomb and others. Sponsor: The Institute for the Liberal Arts.
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Jews & Jesuits
The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College will host a celebration of the publication of “The Tragic Couple”: Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits (Brill Academic Publishing), co-edited by James Bernauer, S.J., Kraft Family Professor and Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning and Robert Maryks, Jesuit Institute Visiting Scholar. The reception will take place on Feb. 12 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Stokes Hall, room S139. According to the publisher, this book is “the first examination of the complex interactions between Jesuits and Jews from the early modern period in Europe and Asia through the twentieth century where special attention is focused on the historical context of the Holocaust.”
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Common ground
The Boston College Carroll School of Management’s Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics will host an appearance and book signing by former US Senator Olympia Snowe on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. During her 18 years in the Senate, Snowe earned a reputation as one of the Congress’ leading moderates and as a policymaker who focused on efforts to build bipartisan consensus on key issues. She is the author of the book, Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix The Stalemate in Congress (Weinstein Publishing). During her time in the Senate, Snowe worked extensively on a number of issues, such as budget and fiscal responsibility; education, including student financial aid and education technology; national security; women’s issues; health care, including prescription drug coverage for Medicare recipients; welfare reform; oceans and fisheries issues; and campaign finance reform. The Winston Center event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Snowe’s book will be on sale at a 20 percent discount.
Post-Western Christianity
The Boston College Institute for the Liberal Arts will present Post-Western Christianity and the Post-Christian West with Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University on Feb. 11 at 5:30 p.m. Sanneh is the author of Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa; Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in “Secular” Britain (with Lesslie Newbigin and Jenny Taylor); Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West, and The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism, among others. His articles have appeared in scholarly journals, including Church History: Studies on Christianity and Culture; Newsletter of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (University of Leiden, The Netherlands); and The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. He also is an editor-at-large of the ecumenical weekly The Christian Century. The presentation will take place in Gasson Hall, room 305.
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