Why Vietnam and not Laos?
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Civil War historian
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, a noted Civil War historian, will be awarded Boston College’s first Sesquicentennial Medal in recognition of her excellence as a scholar and leader in the academy on Oct. 10 at 4 p.m. in Robsham Theater. Faust is the author of six books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, for which she won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1997. Her most recent book, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, looks at the impact of the Civil War’s enormous death toll on the lives of 19th-century Americans. It won the Bancroft Prize in 2009, was a finalist for both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, and is the basis for the PBS American Experience documentary “Death and the Civil War.”
The Dean’s List
Boston College Vice President Father William B. Neenan, SJ, has released his “Dean’s List” of recommended reading for 2012-13. The list, compiled annually, has Fr. Neenan’s 27 book picks, including the following titles making their Dean’s List debut: The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam; 1948 by David Pietrusza; Yalta by S.M. Plokhy, and My Long Trip Home by Mark Whitaker. The 2012-13 Dean’s List
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.
