Book launch: New Voices in Catholic Theology
The Church in the 21st Century Center will host a book launch event Feb. 27 for the newest title in its book series, New Voices in Catholic Theology, which celebrates the work of scholars who trained under Rev. Michael J. Buckley, SJ at Boston College. The book, edited by Anna Bonta Moreland and Joseph Curran, covers topics as varied as social justice, divine providence, the trinity, religious pluralism, interreligious dialogue, dissent and Vatican II. School of Theology and Ministry Associate Professor Dominic Doyle is one of the contributors. According to the publisher: This book serves as both an introduction to much of the best original work being done in theology today, and a reminder of Fr. Buckley’s rich influence as a teacher and mentor. The book launch will be held in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons beginning at 5:30 p.m. Co-sponsor: Theology Department.
Meeting Jesus with Fr. Jim Martin
Popular author and speaker Rev. James Martin, SJ will be appearing at a Boston College event in New York City Feb. 28. Fr. Martin, whose new book is Together on Retreat: Meeting Jesus in Prayer, will speak at a ticket-only event at NYC’s St. Ignatius Church. Check the Alumni Association for details. Fr. Martin, known to television viewers as the “chaplain” of “The Colbert Report,” is author of the bestseller The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and award-winning My Life with the Saints. Co-sponsor: The Church in the 21st Century Center.
Technology & student engagement
Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt and DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, will be discussing “How Technology can Facilitate Faculty & Student Engagement” on Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. in O’Neill Library, Main reading Room, Level 3. Kamenetz writes about how technology is changing higher education and how universities must evolve to meet the challenges of the next century. Kamenetz is a senior writer for Fast Company magazine, a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media, and a sought-after media expert who regularly appears on major news networks. Sponsors: The Office of the Provost and the University Libraries.
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Tagged higher education, millennials, Provost Office, technology, University Libraries
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Constitutionalism and coercion
The Clough Distinguished Lectures in Jurisprudence, a joint initiative of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and the Boston College Law School, will present a lecture by noted author and scholar Frederick Schauer, the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, on Feb. 21 at 4:30 p.m. in Barat House on the Newton Campus. Schauer is the author of The Law of Obscenity; Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry; Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life; Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes, and Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning and of numerous articles on constitutional law and theory, freedom of speech and press, legal reasoning and the philosophy of law. Read more on the speaker and event here.
Open City
Teju Cole, author of the novel Open City, will speak on Feb. 21 in Devlin Hall, room 101 at 7 p.m. Open City, the story of a young Nigerian-German psychiatrist in New York City five years after 9/11, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York City Book Award for Fiction, and the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and the Ondaatje Prize of the Royal Society of Literature. Cole, a writer, art historian and street photographer, is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series
Catholic periodicals facing the future
The chief editors of three prominent Catholic magazines will come together Feb. 20 to discuss the opportunities and challenges they face amidst new technologies, polarizing religious discourse, and changing demographics among American Catholics. The panelists will be Matt Malone, S.J., editor-in-chief of America; Commonweal Editor Paul Baumann and Meinrad Sherer-Emunds, executive editor of U.S. Catholic. Tom Roberts of National Catholic Reporter will serve as the moderator. The event, The Future of Catholic Periodicals: Finances, Faith, and the Digital Age, will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Gasson Hall, Room 100. Sponsors: The Church in the 21st Century Center and Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life.
Honors for Unheavenly Chorus
Congratulations to J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science Kay Schlozman and co-authors Sidney Verba and Henry Brady who won two PROSE Awards for their book, The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy. PROSE awards are presented by the Association of American Publishers and recognize excellence in professional and scholarly publishing, as judged by peer publishers, librarians and academics. The authors and their publisher, Princeton Press, were honored for the best scholarly book in the field of Government & Politics. They also were named winners of the Award for Excellence in Social Sciences. According to the publisher, Unheavenly Chorus is “the first book to look at the political participation of individual citizens alongside the political advocacy of thousands of organized interests–membership associations such as unions, professional associations, trade associations, and citizens groups, as well as organizations like corporations, hospitals, and universities. Drawing on numerous in-depth surveys of members of the public as well as the largest database of interest organizations ever created–representing more than thirty-five thousand organizations over a twenty-five-year period–this book conclusively demonstrates that American democracy is marred by deeply ingrained and persistent class-based political inequality.”
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Tagged government, inequality, Political Science department
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Becoming Catholic (again)
Loyola Press has recently published a book titled Becoming Catholic, Again: Connecting the Faith We Were Taught with the Faith We Live by Boston College alumna Catherine Wiecher Brunell. Brunell, who has a master’s degree in pastoral ministry, writes about maintaining an authentic spiritual life and a connection to the Church in a postmodern world. According to the publisher, Brunell invites readers “to find solace in her story—and to realize that faith can be approached as a route to personal discovery that can lead to spiritual growth.”
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Tagged Catholic, memoir, religion, School of Theology and Ministry, spirituality
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