An intimate look at the immigrant student
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Expert: The true state of public pensions
In the wake of the financial crisis, everyone from elected officials to the media has pointed to public pension funding shortfalls with alarm, expressing concern that pension promises are unsustainable. BC Drucker Professor of Management Sciences Alicia H. Munnell, drawing upon her practical experience and prior research, debunks the notion that all public pension plans are in trouble in her new book State and Local Pensions: What Now? Her analysis finds that a few plans are in serious trouble and in need of a major overhaul. Many plans, however, are functioning reasonably well, but face challenges. Her book was recently reviewed by the magazine Governing. Munnell is a former member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and currently directs the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
The Case for Lebanon– a review
In a review published in Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, Norman Stillman, considered one of the titans of Middle East Studies, calls Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East: The Case for Lebanon by BC Assistant Professor Franck Salameh, “a brilliant and erudite tour de force.” He goes on to write that “Although the book provides fresh insights into a different aspect of the Middle East, it is always measured, analytical, and cogently and elegantly argued on the basis of data that has been meticulously researched.” Salameh teaches in the Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures. Read the full review.
Significance of Empathy
A new book by Boston College alumnus Joseph Palmisano, SJ, (Class of 1997), was celebrated at a book launch event held at Boston College-Ireland earlier this fall. In the book, Beyond the Walls: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Edith Stein on the Significance of Empathy for Jewish-Christian Dialogue, Fr. Palmisano draws from the writings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Edith Stein to offer an in-depth examination of the significance of empathy for Jewish-Christian understanding. Fr. Palmisano is a post-doctoral teaching and research fellow at the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin.
Susan Choi, Take 2
Susan Choi was originally slated to speak on Oct. 30. This is the rescheduled event: Author Susan Choi will give a reading from her forthcoming novel on Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. in Higgins Hall, Room 300. Choi is the author of The Foreign Student, which won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and American Woman, which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Tin House, Allure, O and The New York Times and in anthologies including Money Changes Everything and Brooklyn Was Mine. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series.
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Journalist Jane Mayer
Journalist Jane Mayer, author of the bestseller The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, will speak on Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Mayer has been writer with the The New Yorker since 1995. Before that she was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, serving as the paper’s first female White House correspondent. She was named winner of the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism. Throughout her career, she has covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the bombing of American barracks in Beirut, the Persian Gulf War, the George W. Bush administration, and the war of on terror. She is co-author of two other books, Strange Justice and Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series
History’s historian
Historian Anthony Grafton, past president of the American Historical Association, will deliver a lecture on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. Grafton specializes in the study of the cultural history, scholarship and education in the West from Antiquity to the 19th century. Among his publications are Defenders of the Text and Bring Out Your Dead. He is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Balzan Prize for History of Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series
The enigma of Anselm
Anselm of Canterbury is the subject of the newest book by Professor of Philosophy Eileen C. Sweeney, who explores the link between the emotional and spiritual Anselm, present in his letters and prayers, and the intellectual Anselm, evident in his writings on logic and reason. Her book Anselm of Canterbury and the Desire for the Word was published by The Catholic University of America Press. From the publisher: “Sweeney argues that seeing the common structure and goal in the many topics and genres in the Anselmian corpus yields a new way of considering much-discussed questions in Anselm scholarship — the relationship of faith and reason, the search for ‘necessary reasons,’ the concurrence of freedom and grace…She reveals Anselm as a thinker as relentless in his exposure of ambiguity, paradox, and separation as in his pursuit of certainty, necessity, and unity.” Listen to an interview with Eileen Sweeney conducted by Jonas Barciauskas of O’Neill Library.
Inequality in American politics
Well-educated and affluent citizens have an advantage when it comes to participating in politics and getting their political voices heard, according to Moakley Professor of Political Science Professor Kay Lehman Schlozman, co-author of the new book The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy (co-written with Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady). She recently spoke to the Boston College Chronicle about her book.
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Choi event postponed
Please note that Susan Choi’s appearance has been postponed until Nov. 29.
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