Searching for an heiress lost

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Bookworm
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.”
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Vocation of the Catholic Church

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Bookworm
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

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Bookworm
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
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The extraordinary rise of living alone

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Bookworm
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.
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Appreciate your plenitude

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Bookworm
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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Poetry and emotion

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Bookworm
In The Romantic Voice, a two disc recording, Boston College Rattigan Professor Emeritus in English Literature John Mahoney brings to life in his distinctive voice poems and prose by Romantic poets William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats. It is the fifth in a series he has done under the sponsorship of BC’s Burns Library: Sonnets of Shakespeare; Poetry of Ireland; Freedom: America’s Literary Voices and The Poetry of Faith. A BC faculty member since 1955, he has authored  books on Hazlitt and Wordsworth and edited a collection of essays on religion and literature.
Watch an interview of Professor Mahoney, courtesy of the Boston College Libraries.
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Segregation and expectation

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Bookworm
Anthropologist Nancy Abelmann will discuss her book, The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problem of Segregation, which describes the tensions between the ideals of higher education and the experiences of Korean American undergraduates at the University of Illinois, where she is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages and Cultures. Her lecture will be Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. in Devlin 008. Sponsor: Asian and Asian American Studies. Inside Higher Ed conducted a Q&A with Professor Abelmann last semester.
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Thumbs up for Longing to Love

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Bookworm
A book review in America magazine praises Assistant to Vice President for University Mission and Ministry Tim Muldoon’s memoir, Longing to Love: A Memoir of Desire, Relationships, and Spiritual Transformation, calling it “a compelling portrait of. . .how longing and learning to love—and more than a little faith—can sustain two people devoted to each other, especially when, as often happens, things do not turn out quite as planned or imagined…Every young couple could benefit from the glimpse into the passions, the practicality and the piety required of marriage and family life that Muldoon offers.” Read Rev. Mark Mossa, SJ’s full review.
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The case for Lebanon

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Bookworm
A new reading of modern Middle Eastern history is proposed—and alternate solutions to the volatile region’s problems are suggested—by Franck Salameh, an assistant professor in the Boston College Slavic and Eastern Languages Department, in his new book Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East. The author  proposes bringing back to the fore of Middle East Studies the issue of language as a key factor in shaping (and misshaping) the region, with the hope of rediscovering a broader, more honest, and less ideologically tainted discussion on the Middle East. Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East has a special focus on Lebanon, a “Christian homeland,” because Lebanon has traditionally acted as the region’s template for change and a barometer gauging its problems and charting its progress. There is more from Professor Salameh courtesy of the Boston College Libraries.
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Belfast Boys

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Bookworm
Goldsmiths, University of London Professor Richard Grayson will speak on his book, Belfast Boys – How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War, at 4 p.m. on Oct. 18 in the Thompson Room of Burns Library. The book centers on the two battalions with overt West Belfast connections in 1914-18, the 9th Royal Irish Rifles and the 6th Connaught Rangers, but also draws in other units of the army, navy and Royal Flying Corps in which West Belfast men served. It covers the stories of the men who fought in the war, the experiences of those who returned, the work of women and children on the home front, and the controversies which have surrounded remembrance of the war in Belfast. Sponsor: Center for Irish Programs at Boston College.
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