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How TV transformed Irish society
In A Loss of Innocence?: Television and Irish Society, 1960-72, author Robert Savage, an adjunct associate professor of history at Boston College, explores how television helped facilitate a process of modernization that slowly transformed Irish society during the 1960s. Television introduced into Irish homes an unrelenting popular culture that helped undermine the conservative political, cultural and social consensus that dominated Ireland.
Cardinal George
Cardinal Francis George, OMI, archbishop of Chicago and past president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), will speak on Dec. 7 in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons about his book The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion and Culture, a collection of his essays on the role of the Catholic faith in the modern world.
The event will take place at 4:30 p.m. and is sponsored by the Church and the 21st Century Center and the School of Theology and Ministry.
Meet Anita Shreve
Acclaimed writer (and Massachusetts native) Anita Shreve will discuss and sign her new book Rescue on Dec. 6 at 7:00 p.m. in Devlin 008. Books will be available for sale. The book event is sponsored by the BC Bookstore. Shreve is an award-winning author of 16 books, including the international best-seller The Pilot’s Wife, an Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection. She was recently interviewed by The Boston Globe.
Urban schools
Charles M. Payne, noted for his writings on school reform and urban education, will speak at the Lynch School of Education’s Fall Symposium on Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. in the Yawkey Center. Payne is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and the author of So Much Reform, So Little Change.
Today’s event postponed
Breaking News: This event has been postponed due to weather-related travel problems.
Award-winning writer Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, will talk about his upcoming book on immigrants in contemporary New York on Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. in the Yawkey Center’s Murray Function Room. Mehta was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and a winner of the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series.
Award for Cornille
Congratulations to Theology Associate Professor Catherine Cornille whose book The Im-Possibility of Interrreligious Dialogue has won the Frederick J. Streng Award for Excellence from the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. The award is given to a work that “makes an important contribution to issues relevant to the context of Buddhist-Christian dialogue.”
Ethics and the university
BC Founders Professor of Theology James Keenan, S.J., explores the power of the word of God and the word of human being in his new book Ethics of the Word: Voices in the Catholic Church Today. A review in America magazine calls Ethics of the Word “a helpful and instructive book, given the many experiences of loss and suffering, misunderstanding and scandal that characterize much of our everyday lives.”
Fr. Keenan will speak on Nov. 18, at 5:30 p.m. in Higgins 300. His topic will be “The University in the 21st Century: Thinking about Ethics, Persons, and Discourse.” Sponsor: Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life.
Before the High Holy Days
German/Jewish writer Esther Dischereit will give a multi-media presentation about “Before the High Holy Days the House was Full of Whisperings and Rustlings,” her project in the German city of Dülmen, honoring the city’s former Jewish inhabitants. The presentation will take place Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. in Cushing 212.
Dischereit, a poet and short-story writer, is a recipient of the Erich Fried Prize. Sponsor: German Studies Department and Jewish Studies Program.
Liberal arts in crisis?
Renowned scholars and authors will visit the campus on Saturday, Nov. 13 to discuss the value and future of liberal arts education in the 21st century. Featured speakers will be: New York Times contributor Stanley Fish, Pulitzer Prize winner Louis Menand, academic Catharine Stimpson, historian Rev. John O’Malley, SJ, and Alan Ryan of Oxford University. The forum is sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts.
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