Idea hunting
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Tagged Carroll School of Management, innovation
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Author Talk: Youth Held at the Border
Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Lisa (Leigh) Patel Stevens will read from and discuss her new book Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education and the Politics of Inclusion on January 29 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Immigration activist Conrado Santos will follow with commentary on young immigrants in the US. For more on Patel Stevens’ book see BC Bookmarks’ earlier post. The book event is sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, African and African Diaspora Studies and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Lynch School of Education.
Understanding the Trinity
Dry Bones blogger Kathleen Mulhern uses Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine by School of Theology and Ministry Professor Khaled Anatolios as a guide and inspiration for her blog exploring Trinitarian spirituality and the history behind the shaping of the Nicene Creed. In 2011, Anatolios was selected as Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology. An excerpt from Mulhern’s blog: “The Trinity is not an obscure theological development that has no real import in the life of a Christian. Its utter incomprehensibility does not mean utter meaninglessness. It is, as Anatolios writes, ‘the space in which Christian life takes place.'” Her 27 posts are all available on Patheos starting here.
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Pennsylvania mines
History Professor Kevin Kenny, author of the book Making Sense of the Molly Maguires, took part in Mining History Week in Pennsylvania last week. The week’s events focused on the victims of the Knox Mine Disaster of January 22, 1959, as well as the tens of thousands of mineworkers–men and boys–who toiled, were injured, suffered black lung disease, or died in the area’s anthracite mines. Kenny delivered the Msgr. John J. Curran Memorial Lecture titled “Who Were the Molly Maguires and Why Were They Important to Anthracite History?” to an audience of several hundred at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre. His lecture examined the history of immigration, labor, and violence in the Pennsylvania anthracite region in the 19th century.
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Tagged History Department, Ireland, Irish, mining, Pennsylvania
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Muslim Journeys
Islamic Arts, a book by Norma Jean Calderwood University Professors of Islamic and Asian Art Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, has been selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association to be included in Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys, a collection of 25 books, three documentary films, and a series of seven short videos on Islamic culture that will be distributed to more than 840 libraries and state humanities councils across the country. The collection was chosen by a team of scholars and librarians for its potential to offer readers new and diverse perspectives on the histories and cultures of Muslim societies. Islamic Arts is a comprehensive survey that covers a thousand years and highlights characteristics that connect the various arts of the Islamic lands. According to the NEH, the libraries receiving the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf are public libraries, public library systems, community college libraries, and academic libraries, representing 50 states, the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands. More
Connolly Book of Hours
The Connolly Book of Hours, a magnificent 15th-century illuminated manuscript held by the Burns Library, is now available online. Named after former University Librarian Terence L. Connolly, SJ, The Connolly Book of Hours was created circa 1440, most likely in northern France, according to the Burns Library. The text of 159 leaves contains 15 large and 14 small miniatures with foliate borders, and its contents include “Calendar,” “Obsecro te,” “O intemerata,” “Hours of the Virgin,” “Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany,” “Hours of the Cross,” “Hours of the Holy Spirit,” “Prayer to the Holy Cross,” and “Suffrages of the Saints.” More from the Burns Library blog.
“Aftermath” a Best Book
Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora by Law School Professor Daniel Kanstroom, associate director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, has been named one of the “Best 2012 Books About Justice” by The Atlantic. The eight books on the list “make honorable contributions to our understanding of law and politics.”
Vanderhooft’s book honored
Boston College Associate Professor of Theology David Vanderhooft has been presented with the 2012 G. Ernest Wright Award by American Schools of Oriental Research for his co-authored book, The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah (Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns). The G. Ernest Wright Award is given to the editor/author of the most substantial volume(s) dealing with archaeological material, excavation reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean. Vanderhooft and co-author Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University were presented with the award last month at the ASOR annual meeting in Chicago.
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