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McMullen Events Calendar

All events and programs are free and open to the public.
Free group tours may be arranged by calling the Museum at 617-552-8587.

For a calendar of all Boston College events, visit the Boston College Event Calendar.

Sunday September 6
Opening Celebration of First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection
7:00 McMullen Museum
Free and open to the public. Music and refreshments.

posterSunday October 4
"Long, Long Ago:" Music and Poetry of the Civil War
3:00 P.M. Gasson Hall 100
A concert in conjunction with the First Hand exhibition.

617-552-6004.

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posterThursday October 15, 2009
Lowell Lectures Series: "Drawing/Witness" by Steve Mumford
3:30 p.m. Devlin 101

Contemporary artist, Steve Mumford, will discuss Baghdad Journal, an illustrated book about the artist’s experiences being embedded with several battalions of US forces in Iraq. This lecture is sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts in conjunction with the McMullen Museum Exhibition FirstHand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection.

November 14
Irish Material Culture Symposium

Co-sponsored by the Center for Irish Programs, the McMullen Museum, and the Institute for Liberal Arts. The symposium will explore how various disciplines approach questions about the nature and meaning of material things in Ireland. Prominent speakers includ art historian Claudia Kinmonth (author of Irish Rural Interiors), archaeologist Charles Orser, and Peter Murray, Director of the Crawford Gallery in Cork, Ireland. The event will conclude with a panel discussion and then a reception.

Locations and times TBA

Thursday, December 3
Lowell Lectures Series: Chris Adrian
6:00 p.m. Devlin 101
Gallery open additional hours: 5-8 PM

Event Description Author and pediatric physician, Chris Adrian, will discuss his experiences writing Gob’s Grief, a novel set in 1863 Civil War America. Adrian uses fiction to consider the bonds that tie in a society obsessed and surrounded by death. Currently at Harvard Divinity School, Adrian will discuss how his impressions of historical events play into the writing process, and how the fields of medicine and theology have influenced his fiction. This lecture is sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts in conjunction with the McMullen Museum Exhibition FirstHand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection.