Fr. Neenan’s Dean’s List
Every year since 1982, William B. Neenan, SJ, one of Boston College’s most beloved Jesuits, issues his Dean’s List of recommended books. Check out the Boston College Chronicle for details about Fr. Neenan’s 2010 Dean’s List, which includes new titles by Jeannette Walls, Mitch Albom, James Martin, SJ, and Uwem Akpan, SJ. The Boston College Libraries maintains a list of every title that has appeared on Fr. Neenan’s Dean’s List.
After 9/11
University of California at Davis Professor Sunaina Maira will discuss her book, Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11, a study of South Asian Muslim immigrant youth and issues of citizenship and empire after 9/11, on Oct. 6 at 4:30 p.m. in McGuinn Hall, 121. Sponsor: Boston College’s Institute for the Liberal Arts.
Paging Heidi Montag
When is the modification of our appearance empowering and when is it a sign of weakness? Sociologist Victoria Pitts-Taylor, author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture, offers a ground-breaking analysis of the normalization of cosmetic surgery and the phenomenon of cosmetic surgery “addiction” in contemporary American medicine and popular culture. Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in McGuinn 121. Sponsored by: Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
Missing: A grandmother
A new title to add to your TBR pile. . . Missing Lucile: Memories of the Grandmother I Never Knew, a nonfiction book by Suzanne Berne, who teaches in Boston College’s English Department, will be published in October. The author describes the book: “A daughter tries to give her dying father the mother he never really knew–and about whom little is known. Through a box of trinkets and photographs she begins to reconstruct a woman who has been missing from the family for 75 years. By doing so, she finds the father she has been missing herself.”
Read an excerpt from Boston College Magazine.
Berne is the author of The Ghost at the Table and A Crime in the Neighborhood, which won Great Britain’s Orange Prize.
What’s your heart calling you to do?
One of the leading voices on personal vocation, John Neafsey, author of A Sacred Voice is Calling: Personal Vocation and Social Conscience, will discuss what it means to hear a call in the heart and respond to vocation by becoming more just and compassionate as individuals and communities. This event is part of the Church in the 21st Century Center series on vocation. Sept. 30, 5:30 pm, Fulton Hall, Room 511.
Brilliant
Award-winning author Jane Brox will talk about her latest book, Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, at the Murray Function Room at 7:00 p.m. on Sept. 28. In Brilliant, Brox traces the fascinating history of human light from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to LEDs —and reveals that the story of light is also the story of our evolving selves. Her appearance is sponsored by the Lowell Humanities Series.
Brox also is the author of Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm, Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History, a 1999 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction, and Here and Nowhere Else, which won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. She has received the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and her essays have appeared in anthologies including Best American Essays, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology.
Love One Another
Love One Another: Catholic Reflections on How to Sustain Marriages Today, the 10th book in the award-winning Church in the 21st Century Center book series
, will be officially launched on Sept. 28 at a campus event. The book, edited by University Mission and Ministry’s Tim Muldoon and Cynthia Dobrzynski, contains essays that offer a long look at the challenges facing married Catholics today, but also at the resources from Christian tradition that can help couples and families forge a long and satisfying relationship with one another, with children, and with the communities of the church and society. Listen to the editors discuss spiritual practices in marriage.
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