SPRING 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Assessing the 2008 "Super Primary"
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
• Marc Landy, Boston College
• Kay Schlozman, Boston College
FALL 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Student Debate on Gambling
• Josh Darr, Boston College
• Timothy Mooney, Boston College
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
SPRING 2007
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Blasphemy in Ink: The Danish Mohammed Cartoons and their Fallout
• John McCoy, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Red and Blue Nation?
• Bill Galston, Brookings Institution
• Hahrie Han, Wellesley College
• Marc Landy, Boston College
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Thursday, March 15, 2007
“The Danger of Prophecy”
6th Annual Prophetic Voices of the Church Lecture
• Rev. Peter Gomes, Harvard University
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Headscarves and Holy Days: Should the Law Make Exceptions?
• Leah Farish, civil rights attorney
• Marci Hamilton, Yeshiva University
• Jytte Klausen, Brandeis University
• Erik Owens, Boston College
FALL 2006
Wednesday, 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
SPRING 2006
Friday, April 26, 2006
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code or the Enduring Appeal of Conspiracy Theories
• Harold Attridge, Yale Divinity School
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Pope Benedict After One Year
• Thomas Groome
• Kenneth Himes
• Mary Ann Hinsdale
• James Weiss
• Alan Wolfe
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Retracing the Struggle, Part II: The Social and Political Impact of the Voting Rights Act
• Abigail Thernstrom, Manhattan Institute
• Patricia Williams, Columbia University
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Monday, October 17, 2005
God's Politics After Katrina
• Jim Wallis, Sojourners
SPRING 2005
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Writers Among Us
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
SPRING 2004
Monday, April 26, 2004
Religion and the Presidential Election
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
• Elaine Kamarck, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
• E.J. Dionne, Georgetown University
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Being the Hands of God: The Jewish Call to Social Justice
• David Saperstein, Georgetown University
FALL 2003
Tuesday, November 4, 2003
The Future of American Religion: A Conversation
• R. Scott Appleby, Notre Dame University
• David Brooks, The New York Times
• Wendy Kaminer, The Atlantic Monthly
• Peter Steinfels, The New York Times
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
The Role of Religion and Faith-based Initiatives in Urban Communities
• Stephen Goldsmith, Special Adviser to President Bush on Faith-based Initiatives
• Marc Landy, Boston College
• Thomas Massaro, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
• Joseph O'Keefe, Boston College
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
SPRING 2003
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
The Real State of the Union
• Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic Monthly
• Michael Lind
• Michael Calabrese
• Maya MacGuineas
• Karen Kornbluh
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College