BC School of Social Work Associate Professor Scott Easton has contributed a chapter to the new book Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of Sexual Abuse, edited by Richard B. Gartner. The book presents chapters from the leading experts in the trauma, psychoanalytic, medical, and survivor treatment fields. In his chapter “Building Knowledge for Recovery: Contemporary Research on the Long-term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on Men,” Easton provides an overview of existing research on male survivors of sexual abuse. He focuses on three areas: predictors of mental health problems for male survivors of sexual abuse, barriers to disclosure, and survivor growth post-trauma. Read more from Innovate, the BCSSW blog.
Male survivors of sexual abuse
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Best Book Award for Erickson
Dangerous Trade: Conventional Arms Exports, Human Rights, and International Reputation (Columbia University Press), written by Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies Jennifer L. Erickson, was awarded the 2017 Best Book Award by the Foreign Policy Section of American Political Science Association. Dangerous Trade explains why major arms exporting democracies have come to support new humanitarian arms trade norms, articulated in the new UN Arms Trade Treaty and related multilateral initiatives, intended to restrict small and major conventional arms exports to human rights violators and conflict zones. Yet it also shows that states’ compliance with new norms in practice has so far been limited. Dangerous Trade makes important and timely contributions to the study of international security and arms control and government transparency and accountability.
How our government segregated America
The Joseph E. Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action presents author Richard Rothstein on Nov. 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the Murrary Function Room of Yawkey Center. Rothstein will discuss his new book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Liveright, 2017), in which he argues that segregation in America is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels. Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley). He is also the author/co-author of several other books, including Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, and The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement. Publishers Weekly named The Color of Law one of its Top 10 books of 2017. | National Public Radio interviews: “All Things Considered,” “Fresh Air.”
A conversation with Michael Pollan
Best-selling author Michael Pollan, an expert in food, farms, gardens, and eating habits, will be interviewed by BC Sociology Professor Juliet Schor on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Pollan is the author of In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, The Botany of Desire, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, and Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. Documentaries on PBS and Netflix have also showcased Pollan’s work. His essays have appeared in Harper’s, Mother Jones, Gourmet, Vogue, Travel + Leisure, Gardens Illustrated, and The Nation, among other publications. He is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley. He was named one of the top 10 “New Thought Leaders” by Newsweek magazine in 2009 and to the 2010 Time 100, the magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Sponsor: Park Street Corporation Speaker Series.
The war poets at Rapallo
Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Lauren Arrington will present “‘Shell-shocked Walt Whitmans’: W.B. Yeats and the War Poets at Rapallo” on Nov. 1 at 4:30 p.m. in Burns Library’s Irish Room. Arrington’s lecture will revisit W.B. Yeats’s attitude toward the younger generation of poets, take aim at his pejorative description of them as “shell-shocked Walt Whitmans,” and reassess Richard Aldington and Thomas MacGreevy’s writings about the war during their visits to Rapallo. Arrington is the author of Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz and W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State: Adding the Half-Pence to the Pence. She is a frequent BBC commentator and writes articles and reviews for the Irish Times and Times Literary Supplement.
The Holy Spirit
The School of Theology and Ministry will hold an event on Nov. 2 to celebrate the publication of The Holy Spirit: Setting the World on Fire (Paulist Press, 2017), co-edited by School of Theology and Ministry professors Rev. Richard Lennan and Nancy Pineda-Madrid. All of the contributors to The Holy Spirit are STM faculty members. At the book launch, which will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Cadigan Alumni Center, Francine Cardman, Andrea Vicini, S.J., and Pineda-Madrid offer reflections on the Holy Spirit in light of their own area of expertise.
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Iceland Poppies
Boston College alumna Katherine St. Germain Smith applies her experience as a physician specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry into her new fantasy book for middle school readers. Life and therapeutic insights are woven into Iceland Poppies (Yorkshire Publishing, 2017), a story of a young girl who has the ability to help others understand the power of choices. Smith’s book dedication includes a nod to her History Department mentor, Fr. Murphy.
If you could hear a painting
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac has published a volume that surveys artist Mary Sherman‘s work, a combination of painting, sculpture, installation, and mechanics that explores the relationship between painting and sound. Sherman is a Boston College alumna and teaches in the Art, Art History, and Film Department. The volume, “Mary Sherman: What if You Could Hear a Painting,” captures a turning point in Sherman’s work, when her paintings came off the wall and sound became an integral component of her work. She talks about her artistic journey and her teaching in a BC Libraries video.
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The decriminalization of white America
Khalil Gibran Muhammad will speak on “Erasure: The Decriminalization of White America” on Oct. 25 at 7:00 p.m. in Gasson Hall, Room 100. Muhammad is a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. His scholarship and teaching examine the broad intersections of race, democracy, inequality and criminal justice in modern U.S. History. He is the author of the award-winning book The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America, which explores the roots of the popular conception of black criminality in America. His work has been featured in the New York Times, New Yorker, and Washington Post, among other media. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series.
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The evolution of learning environments in higher ed
Educator Carney Strange will present “By Design: The Evolution of Learning Environments in Higher Ed” on Oct. 23 at 3 p.m. in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. An emeritus professor of higher education and student affairs at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University, Strange will present highlights of his research on incorporating inclusion, security, engagement, and community into campus development. He is the co-author/editor of five books, including (with James H. Banning) Designing for Learning: Creating Campus Environments for Student Success. His scholarship includes the design impact of educational environments, student development in post-secondary education, the dimensions of student spirituality, and methods of qualitative research. Sponsor: The Division of Student Affairs.
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