Talk by US diplomat
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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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T.S. Eliot and anti-Semitism
Jayme Stayer, S.J. will present “T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and the Problem of Cumulative Effect” on Feb. 7 at noon in Corcoran Commons. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested at cjlearning@bc.edu. Jayme Stayer, S.J. is currently an assistant professor of English at John Carroll University. Though his specialty is the poetry of T. S. Eliot, he has published broadly on such topics as rhetoric, music, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and twentieth-century poetry. He recently co-wrote a rhetoric textbook, Think About It: Critical Skills for Academic Writing (Cengage 2013). He is currently editing a volume, T. S. Eliot, France, and the Mind of Europe (Cambridge Scholars, forthcoming) and is finishing another book manuscript, Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare. Sponsor: The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.
Kidder talk postponed
Please note: The talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder at Boston College scheduled for Feb. 5 has been postponed due to weather. A new date is TBD. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series
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Mapping the invisible nature of theater
Meditations on those entities that a theater audience doesn’t see—and their significance—are offered by Boston College Associate Professor of English Andrew Sofer in Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance (University of Michigan Press). In mapping the invisible dimension of theater—whose effects are felt in performance and focus an audience’s experience—Sofer examines phenomena such as hallucination, offstage character and action, technology and trauma. He illuminates the invisible in periods of postclassical western theater and drama, pinpoints new facets of drama and performance that escape sight, and provides case studies that show how dark matter is woven into the fabric of theatrical representation. A colleague writes that, to his knowledge, “No one has undertaken a book-length study of the important phenomenon of unseen objects, people and actions as Sofer has done, and certainly no one has applied to the phenomenon the rich body of theoretical discourse, drawn not only from theater, but from the sciences and social sciences….”
Kidder on “Another Set of Eyes”
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder will present “Another Set of Eyes” at Boston College on Feb. 5 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. From the publisher: “Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved…They talk about narrative strategies (and about how to find a story, sometimes in surprising places), about the ethical challenges of nonfiction, and about the realities of making a living as a writer.” 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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