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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Hope diamond
Each summer, Boston College asks its incoming freshmen to read a book whose theme can provide a starting point for reflection and conversation that will later be illuminated through an address by the author at the annual First Year Convocation in September. The book for this year’s class is Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption and Baseball’s Longest Game by Dan Barry. Barry, a New York Times columnist, will speak at Boston College on Sept. 13 at 7 p.m.
About Bottom of the 33rd from the publisher: With Bottom of the 33rd, celebrated New York Times journalist Dan Barry delivers a lyrical meditation on small-town lives, minor-league dreams, and the elements of time and community that conspired one fateful night to produce a baseball game seemingly without end. An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, Bottom of the 33rd is the rare sports book that changes the way we perceive America’s pastime—and America’s past.
Transformation of a Jewish curse
A new book by Rabbi Ruth Langer, a professor of theology and associate director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College, has been hailed as “masterful” by Jewish Ideas Daily. Rabbi Langer is an expert in Jewish tradition and Jewish-Christian relations. According to the publisher (Oxford University Press), in Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim, Rabbi Langer traces the transformation of the birkat haminim from a medieval Jewish curse of Christians to its modern transformation within the Jewish world into a general petition that God remove evil from the world.
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Vatican II & the Magisterium
Richard R. Gaillardetz, Joseph McCarthy Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College and president-elect of the Catholic Theological Society of America, has co-authored (with Catherine Clifford) a book that offers an accessible take on the vision of the Second Vatican Council, which Professor Gaillardetz calls “the most important event in Roman Catholic history since the Protestant Reformation.” Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II is particularly helpful to the growing number of Catholics — including those studying for ordained and lay ministry–with no personal recollection of Vatican II, its invigorating vision and the way it profoundly re-shaped the understanding and practice of the Catholic faith. BC Story | Prof. Gaillardetz also has edited a new volume of papers by leading Catholic scholars on the Church’s official teaching authority in a postmodern world. According to the publisher (Liturgical Press), When the Magisterium Intervenes: The Magisterium and Theologians in Today’s Church covers many topics, including the investigation of theologians that has occurred in recent years, canonical perspectives on such investigations, the role that women religious have played in these issues, the place of the media when problems arise, and possible future ways forward.
Discovering Joyce’s Dublin
The Dublin of 1904, explored by Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses, is now accessible to the tech-savvy inhabitants of the 21st century thanks to JoyceWays, a multimedia virtual tour created by Boston College undergraduates with the help of BC English Adj. Associate Professor Joe Nugent, a Joyce scholar, and BC’s Office of Instructional Design and eTeaching Services. Using digital mapping and images, archival photographic research at Ireland’s National Archives, and their own camera work, the students have produced an interactive guide to the topography and texture of Dublin that includes more than 100 locations. JoyceWays features excerpts from the novels glossed with expert criticism, quirky facts, and contemporary images, video and audio—including narration by Irish Senator David Norris and best-selling author, broadcaster and BBC host Frank Delaney. News of the launch of JoyceWays received worldwide media attention. JoyceWays is available on iTunes and was awarded The Appy for app of the month for June. Said one of the judges, JoyceWays “combines both educational and tourism features. What I liked in particular about [it] was the way that the user experience was made very easy and accessible in bringing to life a novel that can be anything but…The whole experience is fun and is great bite sized introduction to Ulysses and Joyce’s Dublin.” BC story
How Effective Is Deportation?
Law Professor Daniel Kanstroom, associate director of Boston College’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice, has written a new book Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora, which questions the effectiveness of deportation as an immigration policy. He was interviewed on “The Takeaway,” a co-production of WNYC Radio and Public Radio International. According to the publisher: Since 1996, when new, harsher deportation laws went into effect, the United States has deported millions of noncitizens back to their countries of origin. Daniel Kanstroom turns his attention to deportation’s aftermath: the actual effects on individuals, families, U.S. communities, and the countries that must process and repatriate ever-increasing numbers of U.S. deportees.
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