Bestselling author Emma Donoghue will talk about her writing with Burns Visiting Scholar of Irish Studies Ciaran O’Neill on Dec. 1. The event, which will be held in Devlin Hall, room 101, from 4:45 to 6 p.m. is supported by the Thomas J. Flatley fund. Donoghue is the writer of the novel Room and the Oscar-nominated screenplay for the motion picture of the same name. Room was an international bestseller and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange prizes. Her most recent work, The Wonder, is a historical novel inspired by the stories of Victorian era “fasting girls.” She is adapting The Wonder into a feature film.
In conversation with Emma Donoghue
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Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
Professor Boris Lanin of the Russian Academy of Education, Moscow will present “Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Why Do Russian Secondary School Students Read and Study Them?” on Nov. 29 at 3 p.m. in Lyons Hall, room 207. A scholar of Russian-Jewish literature, Lanin is a leading literary historian and author of a series of widely used literature textbooks for middle and high school. He has given invited talks at universities and research centers across the U.S., and in Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Argentina, Israel and Russia. Sponsors: Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures, East European Studies Program, and the Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lectures Fund.
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Book launch: God in the Qur’an
The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College is hosting a book launch event on Nov. 28 at noon for God in the Qur’an (Knopf, 2018) by Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles, who holds the 2018-19 Corcoran Visiting Professorship in Christian-Jewish Relations at BC. Miles is a well-known religious scholar whose writings have appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. His new book offers a portrait of the God of Islam, the world’s second largest religion. Miles is also the author of God: A Biography, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and has been translated into 16 languages, and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, which was named a New York Times Notable Book. Miles is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English & Religious Studies at the University of California/Irvine and a recipient of both Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. This event, which is free and open the public, will be held in McElroy Commons, Room 237. Email cjlearning@bc.edu to register.
Harold Petersen
Harold Petersen, a retired associate professor of economics, taught at Boston College from 1960 to 2016. He has published a personal reflection of his journey through BC and also the journey of BC as seen through his eyes. 56 Years: Two Journeys: How a Lutheran became Ignatian in his Years at Boston College and how Boston College stayed Ignatian as it Grew offers Petersen’s account of the University from its days as a commuter school, through a financial crisis, to its emergence as an international university still very much committed to its Catholic and Jesuit heritage. A highly regarded professor, Petersen was recognized with the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award from BC’s PBK chapter in 2014.
Practitioners and academics
What is the optimal mixture of real-world experience and scholarly research that produces the best educational preparation for business students? The sharp divide between practitioners and academics that once existed has been largely erased, but there is still much progress to be made in the arena of scholarly engagement within the world of business education. In their book, Academic-Practitioner Relationships: Developments, Complexities and Opportunities (Routledge, 2017), editors Jean Bartunek of the Boston College Carroll School of Management and Jane McKenzie of the Henley Business School at the University of Reading, UK, highlight the sorts of capabilities academics need to collaborate effectively with practitioners and illustrate case studies that demonstrate how successful academic-practitioner relationships can produce research of rigor and relevance. Bartunek is the Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Professor of Management and Organization and a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart, a women’s Roman Catholic religious order. Carroll School Professor Sandra Waddock, the Galligan Chair of Strategy, and Professor Richard Nielsen are contributors to the volume. Bartunek discussed the book in this BC Libraries video.
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Engaging first-gen college students
Digital tools can help ensure the academic success of students who are first in their families to go to college, according to a new book co-authored by BC Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Heather Rowan-Kenyon, Lynch School of Education Professor and Associate Dean Ana M. Martinez Alemán, and BC grad Mandy Savitz-Romer of Harvard University. Technology and Engagement: Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students (Rutgers University Press, 2018) is based on a four-year study of how first-gen college students use web technology, including social media sites, to improve their transition to and engagement with their university. Students were better able to maintain close ties with family and friends from home, as well as engage more with social and academic programs at their university. Technology and Engagement is the recipient of the Association for the Study of Higher Education Outstanding Book Award for 2018. The authors discussed their book in a BC Libraries video and wrote an opinion piece outlining digital strategies higher education faculty and administrators for Inside Higher Ed.
Mike Lupica
Boston College alumnus and legendary sportswriter Mike Lupica will present “The Next Moment is the One that Can Change Everything” on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 305. A member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame, Lupica was a columnist for the New York Daily News for some 40 years. He is a contributor to MLB.com and a frequent commentator on ESPN. He also hosts “The Mike Lupica Podcast,” a lively take on professional sports and politics. In addition to his media career, Lupica is a best-selling author of novels for adults and young readers, including his most recent books, No Slam Dunk and Robert B. Parker’s Blood Feud.
Michael Sandel
Political philosopher and best-selling author Michael Sandel will present “Bioethics and the Common Good” on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University. His course “Justice” — the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on television — has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the globe. His writings on justice, ethics, democracy, and markets have been translated into 27 languages. He is the author of the books, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, and Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, among others. Co-sponsors: Lowell Humanities Series and the Park Street Corporation Speaker Series.
The Paulist Biblical Commentary
The Paulist Biblical Commentary (Paulist Press, 2018) is a significant new compendium of the very best in contemporary biblical scholarship. The 1,686-page volume, which brings together in collaboration more than 70 international biblical scholars, consists of a commentary on each of the 73 books of the Catholic canon of the Bible along with 12 general articles, written to be accessible to a wide variety of readers, especially those engaged in pastoral ministry. The book’s general editors include STM Dean and Professor of New Testament Thomas D. Stegman, S.J., and STM Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Richard J. Clifford, S.J., who served as STM’s founding dean from 2008-2010. Fr. Stegman penned the volume’s commentary on Romans. Fr. Clifford contributed commentaries on Genesis, Wisdom, and Nahum. Fr. Stegman and Fr. Clifford also co-wrote the general article on “The Christian Bible.” Other BC contributors are: STM’s Associate Professor of Old Testament Andrew R. Davis (Job), Associate Professor of New Testament Angela Kim Harkins (Daniel), and Assistant Professor of Old Testament Michael Simone, S.J., (Judges) and Pheme Perkins, Joseph Professor of Catholic Spirituality in BC’s Theology Department, who contributed a piece on the Gospels. More from BC News.
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Doctor Levitin
A major work of late 20th-century Russian and Jewish literature, Doctor Levitin, a novel depicting the experience of the Jewish exodus from the former USSR, has been published in English. BC professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer oversaw the translation and contributed a commentary. University of New Hampshire professors Arna B. Bronstein and Aleksandra Fleszar co-translated the novel with Shrayer. First published in Israel in 1986, Doctor Levitin was written by Shrayer’s father, writer David Shrayer-Petrov, who drew on the personal plight of his Jewish-Russian family and their emigration from the USSR in 1987. A book launch will take place at Brookline Booksmith on Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. featuring Shrayer in conversation with Shrayer-Petrov and Bronstein. More from BC News.| Shrayer is also editor of a new volume titled Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature (Academic Studies Press, 2018), an anthology of major 19th- and 20th-century fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by 80 Jewish-Russian writers. He profiles Lev Ginzburg, a Jewish-Russian author and investigator of Nazi crimes, in Tablet Magazine.
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