Over the summer, each member of the Boston College Class of 2014 was given a copy of Daniel Wolff’s How Lincoln Learned to Read. The author will address the Class of 2014 and the rest of the University community at First Year Academic Convocation on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. Read reflections by some BC professors on Wolff’s book. Previous authors for this annual event have included Barack Obama, John McCain, Ann Patchett, J.R. Moehringer, Jeanette Walls and Tracy Kidder.
Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and resident scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, will discuss his new book, Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law, on Sept. 16 at 4:30 p.m. in McGuinn Hall, room 121. The lecture is sponsored by Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy.
Harvard Professor Mark Warren, author of Fire in the Heart, a new book that uncovers the process by which some white Americans become activists for racial justice, will speak on Sept. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Campion Hall, room 139. The Lynch School of Education has sponsored his visit.
Irish writers are the subject of the exhibition that opened this weekend at the McMullen Musuem of Art. “Literary Lives: Portraits from the Crawford Art Gallery and Abbey Theatre, Ireland” captures the visages of Irish writers by Irish artists in painting, sculpture and photography. Writers included are: William Butler Yeats, Jonathan Swift, Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O’Connor and Seamus Heaney, among others. The exhibition is on display until December 5.
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