Iran and the U.S.

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Bookworm
Barbara Slavin, an expert on U.S. foreign policy and the author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation, will speak at on Mar. 16 at 5 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 008.  A nonresident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council specializing on Iran, Slavin has served as assistant managing editor for world and national security of The Washington Times and as senior diplomatic reporter for USA TODAY. She has reported from Iran, Libya, Israel, Egypt, North Korea, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Slavin is a regular commentator on U.S. foreign policy on National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting System and C-Span. Sponsor: Islamic Civilization & Societies Program.
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Faith and wealth

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Bookworm
Boston College Professor of Sociology Paul Schervish, an expert on affluence, charitable giving and spirituality, has co-written (with Keith Whitaker) a new book titled Wealth and the Will of God: Discerning the Use of Riches in the Service of Ultimate Purpose that addresses the question: How can people of faith best connect their financial capacity to their spiritual aspirations?
Schervish, who also directs BC’s Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, says one thing is true– the need for a process of reflection that can help wealth holders discern, for the time and circumstances in which they exist, what to do with their material resources. Read an interview with Prof. Schervish in the most recent Boston College Chronicle.
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Feminized majority

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Bookworm
BC alumna Katherine Adam (Class of 2007) had her senior thesis published as book — a rare feat for an undergraduate project. On March 15, Adam will return to campus to discuss her book, The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women’s Values, and assess the American political climate. The event, free and open to the public, takes place at 5 p.m. in Fulton 230. Sponsor: Women and Gender Studies. More from the Boston College Chronicle.
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BC Libraries celebrate March

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Bookworm
The Boston College Libraries are honoring BC is Green month with BC Greener Lib group’s new list of library resources with an environmental focus. Check out the new list of green books for 2011 and new green e-books. There also will be a luncheon book discussion on Mar. 25 at noon in O’Neill Library on Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound.
The Theology and Ministry Library is celebrating Women’s History Month by highlighting some recent arrivals that focus on women and the Church and/or feminist theology.
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All About Audrey

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Bookworm
BC alumna Margaret Cardillo (Class of 2003) has written a children’s book titled Just Being Audrey about the late actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn.  Cardillo, a lifelong Hepburn fan, said in an interview with the Naples Daily News that she was first drawn to Hepburn for her movies, but after doing some research found that her life beyond Hollywood was equally fascinating. Hepburn had a difficult childhood. Later in life, she served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and traveled the world raising awareness for children’s needs. “A huge reason why I wrote the book is because there are so many celebrities that are famous for all the wrong reasons,” Cardillo told the Naples Daily News. “I wanted to highlight somebody that was famous for all the right reasons.” Read her full interview.
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Emergent technologies & research

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Bookworm
The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research, edited by BC Professor of Sociology Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, has been published by Oxford University Press. Hesse-Biber, director of Women’s & Gender Studies Program at BC, also contributed the essay “Emergent Technologies in Social Research: Pushing against the Boundaries of Research Praxis.”
The Handbook has been called an indispensable guide for social researchers looking to incorporate emerging technologies into their methods and practice. According to the publisher, The Handbook is “not only an authoritative view of cutting-edge technologies and their applications, but [it also]
examines the costs and benefits of utilizing new technologies on the research process, the potential misuse of these techniques for methods practices, and the ethical and moral dimensions of emergent technologies, especially with regard to issues of surveillance and privacy.”
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Author, Jesuit and media man

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Bookworm
On Mar. 4, Boston College will host an evening with author Rev. James Martin, SJ, whose media appearances on NPR, “The O’Reilly Factor” and “The Colbert Report,” among many others, have made him one of the most recognizable Jesuits in America. Fr. Martin will talk about his best-selling book The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life. He will translate the insights of St. Ignatius of Loyola for a modern audience, revealing how people can find God and how God can find people in the real world of work, love, suffering, decisions, prayer, and friendship.
The 7:00 p.m. event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Robsham Theater and is sponsored by Provincial Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, and the New England Province of Jesuits, in partnership with the Boston College Church in the 21st Century Center and BC School of Theology and Ministry. Space is limited and RSVPs are requested at kostiguy@sjnen.org.
Fr. Martin is a culture editor of America magazine and the author of several other books, including My Life with the Saints, A Jesuit Off-Broadway and the forthcoming Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Huffington Post, O Magazine and Slate, among others.
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National Book Award finalist

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Bookworm
Karen Tei Yamashita will read from her latest novel, I Hotel, a 2010 finalist for the National Book Award. She also is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, and Circle K Cycles. March 2 at 4:30 p.m. in Carney Hall, room 206. Sponsored by: Asian American Studies program
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Rethinking the history of women’s writing

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Bookworm
From verse and songs to household recipes, The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610, vol. 2 examines the diversity of early women’s writing and offers a new paradigm for understanding women’s roles in shaping sixteenth century literary, religious and political movements.  Co-edited and introduced by Boston College Associate Professor of English Caroline Bicks, the volume rethinks the history of women’s writing—and reconsiders what writing meant to the women who produced and used it—and of literary history itself.
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Holocaust history and survivor testimonies

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Bookworm
Cultural critic and historian Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution of Poland, has served as an expert witness in two “Holocaust denial” cases: the second Zündel trial in Toronto in 1988 and David Irving’s libel suit against Deborah Libstadt in London in 2000. Browning will speak about “Holocaust History and Survivor Testimonies: The Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps” on Feb. 28 in Devlin Hall, room 101, at 7:00 p.m.
Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and has served as the J. B. and Maurice Shapiro Senior Scholar and Ina Levine Senior Scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial.
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