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.
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.”
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.
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
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.
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. 
In Domenico Bernini’s “Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini”: An English Translation and Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary, BC Associate Professor of Italian Franco Mormando presents the first critical translation in any language of the complete Italian text of a biography—one of the most important and intimate primary sources on the life and work of artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini—by his son. A creator of the vastly popular Roman Baroque style, Bernini (1598–1680), a sculptor, architect, painter and playwright, was the most influential artist of 17th-century Rome and leading creative force in European art. This volume includes a lengthy introduction and extensive commentary by Mormando, which illuminates the text.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the new book The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), will speak on campus Feb. 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Cushing 001. Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Virginia. His other works include Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. He has contributed to periodicals, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, Salon.com, and The Nation, as well as to National Public Radio and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Sponsor: American Studies Program.
The Boston Joyce Forum will present “Joyce, Cinema, and History,” a lecture by John McCourt of Università Roma Tre. Director of the Trieste Joyce School, McCourt is the editor of Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and the Cinema Volta, a book about Joyce and cinema. His other works include James Joyce: A Passionate Exile and The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920.
Best-selling author Tom Clancy didn’t attend Boston College, but Jack Ryan, the central character in many of Clancy’s novels, did. Ryan, a CIA operative who ascended to the presidency of the United States over a two decades-long series of Tom Clancy techno-action novels, returns in Clancy’s latest work, Dead or Alive.
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