FALL 2008
Wendesday, September 17, 2008
The Roosevelt Legacy: How FDR Shaped the Modern Presidency
• Patrick Maney, Boston College
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Invisibility Syndrome of African Americans in Educational Institutions
• Anderson J. Franklin, Boston College
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Catholics and the 2008 Election
• Amy Sullivan, TIME Magazine
• Michael Sean Winters, America and Catholic World Magazines
• Alan Wolfe, moderator
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Madison's Hand: Remembering the Constitutional Convention (Thoughts on the History of the Book and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition)
• Mary Bilder, Boston College
Thursday, November 6, 2008
2008 Election Town Hall
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
• Kay Schlozman, Boston College
• Marc Landy, Boston College
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
"Ways of Knowing:" Re-integrating Spirituality in the Catholic University and Liberal Arts
• James W. Morris, Boston College
SPRING 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Muslims in the United States
• Peter Skerry, Boston College
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship
• David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Assessing the 2008 "Super Primary"
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
• Marc Landy, Boston College
• Kay Schlozman, Boston College
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Mormons in America
• Clayton Christensen
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Just Schools
• Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
What Do We Owe the Iraqis?
• Andrew Bacevich, Boston University
• Fr. Bryan Hehir, Boston College
• Fr. Paul McNellis, SJ, Boston College
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Advances in Stem Cell Research
• Dr. Ole Isacson, Harvard Medical School
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Immigration & the Scandinavian Welfare State
• Grete Brochmann, University of Oslo
Thursday, April 17, 2008
"Yes, God Is Real": A Born-Again Public Intellectual Reflects on Catholic Faith in Reason and Community
• John DiIluio, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Gay Marriage in Theology, Law and Politics
• William Stacy Johnson
• David Blankenhorn
• Kerry Healey
• Cheryl Jacques
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
A Thirty-third Stone? Civil Religion, Mourning and Memorials at Virginia Tech
• Jerome Copulsky, Goucher College
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil
• Emilie Townes, Yale Divinity School
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Author Meets Critics: A Theology of Public Life
• Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia
• Ronald Thiemann, Harvard Divinity School
• David Hollenbach, S.J., Boston College
• Erik Owens, Boston College
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History
• Daniel Kanstroom, Boston College
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Failing America's Faithful
The 7th Annual
Prophetic Voices of the Church Lecture
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Georgetown University
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The Role of Catholic Universities in American Public Life
• David O'Brien, College of the Holy Cross
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
"The Theocons" in American Public Life
• Damon Linker, author (The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege)
• Jorge Garcia, Boston College
• Moderator: Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Islam in Europe and the United States
• Kishwer Falkner, Baroness of Margravine, U.K. House of Lords
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Current Developments in Middle Eastern Politics and Religion
• Shai Feldman, Brandeis University
FALL 2006
September 28, 2006
Judging Intelligent Design: Should the Courts Decide What Counts as Science or Religion?
• Jay Wexler, Boston University School of Law
October 4, 2006
Integrating Islam in France (and Europe)
• Jonathan Laurence, Boston College
October 18, 2006
Religious Freedom and the Pledge of Allegiance
• Michael Newdow, plaintiff
• Wendy Kaminer, Lawyer and social critic
• Phillip Muñoz, Tufts University
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
November 2, 2006
Overcoming Religious Illiteracy Through Public Education
• Diane L. Moore, Harvard Divinity School
November 9, 2006
Religion and the 2006 Mid-Term Elections
• Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect
Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College
Alan Wolfe, Boston College