Does a president’s faith matter?
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Writer-in-Residence Gish Jen
Acclaimed novelist Gish Jen, author of the new book World and Town, will be a writer-in-residence at BC next week, making three public appearances. She will read from World and Town on Nov. 9 at 7:00 p.m. in the Yawkey Athletics Center’s Murray Room and participate in a book club style discussion on Nov. 10 in McGuinn 121 at 4:00 p.m. Finally, she will take part in a Q&A with BC Associate Professor of English Min Song on Nov. 11 at 4:45 p.m. Read more about Gish Jen’s residency at BC in the Boston College Chronicle.
Read the Boston Globe and New York Times reviews of World and Town. Boston College Professor of English Elizabeth Graver and Associate Professor of English Min Song offer commentary on Jen’s novel at The Arts Fuse.
Jen was named one of the eight most important contemporary American women writers by critic Elaine Showalter. She also is the author of Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land and The Love Wife, and her work has been published in The New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the New Republic.
Sponsors: Lowell Humanities Lecture Series and the Institute for the Liberal Arts.
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Tagged 9/11, Asian American, English Dept., ethnicity, Lowell Humanities Series
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American Catholic life after Vatican II
BC School of Theology and Ministry Dean Mark Massa, S.J., talks about his new book, The American Catholic Revolution: How the ’60s Changed the Church Forever, with the Boston College Chronicle and Religion News Service. He will deliver his inaugural dean’s address on Nov. 3 at 4 p.m. in the Heights Room.
Searching for an heiress lost
English Department faculty member Suzanne Berne’s new book, Missing Lucile: Memories of the Grandmother I Never Knew (previously highlighted by BC Bookmarks), has been reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. The subject of the book, Lucile Kroger, was the heiress to the Kroger grocery fortune. Though Lucile proves to be an elusive subject, the author creates a “lacy, loving Valentine to a lost lady.”
Vocation of the Catholic Church
Paul Lakeland, the Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., professor of Catholic Studies and chair of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University, will speak on “The Vocation of the Church: One Calling, Many Roles” on Oct. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the Heights Room. Fr. Lakeland is the author of eight books, including the award-winning The Liberation of the Laity: In Search of an Accountable Church and Catholicism at the Crossroads: How the Laity Can Save the Church. His latest book is Church: Living Communion. Sponsors: Theology Department and the Church in the 21st Century Center.
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The birth of American federalism
Scholars will join author and University of Chicago law professor Alison LaCroix to discuss her book The Ideological Origins of American Federalism. Oct. 27, 4:30 p.m., McGuinn 121. Sponsor: Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy
The extraordinary rise of living alone
Sociologist Eric Klinenberg, author of Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, will speak on campus on Oct. 26 in the Murray Function Room at 7 p.m. about his current book project about the rise of living alone. A popular commentator, Klinenberg appears frequently on television and radio, and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation, the London Review of Books, and NPR’s This American Life. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series.
Appreciate your plenitude
Social economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor recently sat down with the Boston College Chronicle for an interview about the buzz surrounding her new book, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. “People are facing situations with less money, less security and in a market where they are unemployed or underemployed,” Schor tells the Chronicle. “It is in our economic interest to understand that what makes sense for the planet makes sense for all of us.”
Schor will speak at the Winston Forum on Business Ethics Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in the Yawkey Center’s Murray Room and Nov. 17 at 4:30 p.m. in the O’Neill Reserve Room.
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Tagged economy, environment, Sociology Dept, sustainability
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