WAYS OF KNOWING SEMINAR

November 17, 2008:

Minutes from meeting (accessible to CIT seminar members only):
https://wfs.bc.edu/bcfolders/BoisiCenter/CIT

Readings for this session:

• Andrew Delbanco. "Colleges: An Endangered Species?" The New York Review of Books. March 10, 2005.
• ---. "The Endangered University." The New York Review of Books. March 24, 2005.
• ---. "Scandals of Higher Education." The New York Review of Books. March 29, 2007.
• Lawrence Blum, Henry Wasser and Frank Wolf. "Scandals of Higher Education: An Exchange." The New York Review of Books. April 26, 2007.
• Cass Cliatt and J.J. Stevenson III. "Scandals of Higher Education." The New York Review of Books. May 31, 2007.

October 20, 2008:

Minutes from meeting (accessible to CIT seminar members only):
https://wfs.bc.edu/bcfolders/BoisiCenter/CIT

Readings for this session:

• James Tunstead Burtchaell. "The Catholics." The Dying of the Light. (Grand Rapids, MI: 2008).
• Amanda Porterfield. "East University." Religion on Campus. Conrad Cherry, Betty Deberg and Amanda Porterfield, eds. (Chapel Hill, NC: 2001).

September 22, 2008:

Minutes and audio from meeting (accessible to CIT seminar members only):
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April 28, 2008:

Minutes and audio from meeting (accessible to CIT seminar members only):
https://wfs.bc.edu/bcfolders/BoisiCenter/CIT

March 17, 2008:

Minutes and Pamela Berger's PowerPoint presentation on the divine in art: https://wfs.bc.edu/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-9469570_1

January 28, 2008:

Minutes and audio from meeting (accessible to CIT seminar members only):
https://wfs.bc.edu/bcfolders/BoisiCenter/CIT

Revisit readings from December 3 for further discussion.

Also, a new selection of poems chosen by Paul Mariani:

• Mariani - The Stone Not Cut by Hand
• Mariani - Ferry Crossing
• Yeats - The Second Coming
• Howe - The Star Market
• Williams - Burning the Christmas Greens

December 3, 2007:

Minutes and audio from meeting (accessible to CIT seminar members only):
https://wfs.bc.edu/bcfolders/BoisiCenter/CIT

Poems by Paul Mariani:

• Silt
• High Tea with Miss Julianna
• When We Walked Together
• Hopkins in Ireland
  
  Gerald Holton, Werner Heisenberg and Albert Einstein

Article Paul Davidovits Mentioned during Session:

• Michael Dine, String theory in the Era of the Large Hadron Collider
  http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_60/iss_12/33_1.shtml 

October 29, 2007:

Audio from meeting (accessible to CIT seminar members only): https://wfs.bc.edu/bcfolders/BoisiCenter/CIT

• Stephen Schloesser, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Re-sourcing Catholic Intellectual Traditions.

September 25, 2007: Introduction to the Seminar

PAST UNIVERSITY WIDE EVENTS

April 17, 2008: "Yes, God is Real": A Born-Again Public Intellectual Reflects on Catholic Faith in Reason and Community

Speaker: John DiIulio (University of Pennsylvania)
Time and Location: 4:30PM-6:00PM in Fulton 511
http://www.bc.edu/centers/boisi/publicevents/current_semester/delulio.html

February 6, 2008: The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship
Speaker: David Skeel (University of Pennsylvania)
12:00-1:15 at the Boisi Center, 24 Quincy Rd.
http://www.bc.edu/centers/boisi/publicevents/current_semester/skeel.html