Election 2012: Politics and media
Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation, The Time of Our Lives, and other works, is one of the featured speakers at the Carroll School of Management’s Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics event on Election 2012. He and NBC correspondent Luke Russert (BC Class of 2008) will discuss the election and political news coverage in Robsham Theater at 4 p.m. on Oct. 9.
Another award for The Sojourn
The Sojourn, a stirring novel of brotherhood, survival, and coming-of-age during World War I written by Andrew Krivak, a faculty member in the Arts and Sciences Honors Program Boston College, has been awarded the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in the fiction category. The prize, which is the only literary peace prize awarded in the United States, honors writers whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding. The Sojourn was last cited in the BC Bookmarks in April. BC News
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, author of the bestseller Behind the Beautiful Forevers, will speak on Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is considered a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the world’s great, unequal cities: Mumbai, India. Boo has more than 25 years experience as a journalist with the The New Yorker and The Washington Post, among other publications. Sponsors: Lowell Humanities Series and Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics.
Hate speech harm
Jeremy Waldron, author of The Harm in Hate Speech, will speak on “The Separation of Powers in Thought and Practice ” on Sept. 20 at 5 p.m. in Higgins Hall, room 300. Waldron’s other books include The Right to Private Property; God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations of Locke’s Political Thought; and Torture, Terror, and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House. He is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, University of Oxford and University Professor of Law, New York University School of Law. In The Harm in Hate Speech, Waldron argues “powerfully that hate speech should be regulated as part of our commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities.” Sponsor: The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy.
Law, Culture & Legacies of Slavery
Renowned historian, author and legal scholar, Annette Gordon-Reed will lecture on “Law, Culture and Legacies of Slavery” on Sept. 12 at 5 p.m. in Higgins Hall, room 300. Gordon-Reed, the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Professor of History, and Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History Law at Harvard University, won a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for history for her book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Her other works include Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, and a biography of president Andrew Johnson. Sponsor: The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy in collaboration with the BC Legal History Round-Table.
Aftermath Book Launch
The Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice will host a book launch for Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora, written by Law Professor Daniel Kanstroom, on Sept. 12 at 5:00 p.m. in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. Kanstroom will offer commentary on his book, and Harvard University Professor of Sociology Mary Waters will talk about the social effects of U.S. immigration policy on immigrant families and communities. Read more about the book and event.
Fighting teacher burnout
Almost half of new teachers leave the profession within their first year. New teachers need support, mentoring, encouragement, and, most importantly, hope in order to survive the challenges of their first years of teaching. Encouragement comes in the form of a book co-edited by Boston College Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Audrey Friedman, 2009 Massachusetts Professor of the Year. Burned In: Fueling the Fire to Teach features essays from visionary educators, including Friedman’s Lynch School colleagues Andy Hargreaves and Curt Dudley-Marling. According to the publisher, the personal stories, as well as powerful research findings about what teachers need to succeed in today’s classrooms, will help fuel new and veteran educators’ passion for teaching so they stay ‘burned in’ instead of burning out. Listen to an interview conducted by Boston College Libraries’ Brendan Rapple in which Friedman discusses the book and her own passion for classroom teaching.
A poet’s Magnum Opus
Epitaphs for the Journey, a new collection by award-winning poet and University Professor of English Paul Mariani, offers the best of his long and distinguished career: it brings together new poetry, revisits his extensive body of work which spans four decades, and includes revisions of earlier work that has already been highly acclaimed. Mariani’s lyrics chronicle his journey—from the streets of New York in the mid-twentieth century, growing up in a working-class family, to his own marriage, fatherhood and grandfatherhood. More at BC News.
God and humanity
Theologian Dominic F. Doyle, an associate professor of systematic theology in the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, has published a new book that, according to the publisher, “shows how the Christian virtue of hope breathes new life into humanism, enabling believers to approach God as the human good.” In The Promise of Christian Humanism: Thomas Aquinas on Hope, Doyle shows how the work of St. Thomas Aquinas, Charles Taylor, Nicholas Boyle, and others reveals the essential bond between the Christian virtue of hope and the life-affirming sensibilities of humanism. Doyle has been honored with the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise and the Catholic Theological Society of America’s Catherine LaCugna Award to New Scholars.
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