Fall 2008 Events

The Roosevelt Legacy:  How FDR Shaped the Modern Presidency Patrick Maney, Boston College
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center 


Invisibility Syndrome of African Americans in Educational Institutions
Anderson J. Franklin, Boston College
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center 

Catholics and the 2008 Election
Amy Sullivan, TIME Magazine
Michael Sean Winters, America and Catholic World Magazines
Alan Wolfe, moderator
Thursday, October 9, 2008
4:30-6:00 PM • Devlin 101
The Role of the Public Intellectual
Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Richard Parker, Harvard University
Sunday, October 12, 2008
1:30-3:00 PM • JFK Presidential Library
Georges Rouault's Epistemological Modesty
Stephen Schloesser, Boston College
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center


Promised Land: Exodus and America, A Festival of Ideas
October 22-26, 2008 • Boston
Sponsored by Nextbook and the New Center for Arts and Culture



Madison's Hand: Remembering the Constitutional Convention (Thoughts on the History of the Book and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition)
Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center 

2008 Election Roundtable
Alan Wolfe, Kay Schlozman and
Marc Landy, Boston College
Thursday, November 6, 2008
4:30-6:00 PM • Devlin 101

"Ways of Knowing:" Re-integrating Spirituality in the Catholic University and Liberal Arts
James W. Morris, Boston College
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center 

American Secularism for American Muslims: Challenges and Prospects
Eighth Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture
Abdullahi An-Na'im
Thursday, November 13, 2008
4:30-6:00 PM • Higgins 300
Giving the Dead Their Living Voices: On Writing Biography
Paul Mariani, Boston College
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center