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Q & A s

boisi center for religion and american public life

SPRING 2008

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship
 • D
avid Skeel, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Mormons in American Politics
 • Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School

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

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


FALL 2007

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

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 


 
SPRING 2007 

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)

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

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 and Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College


 

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