Fall 2011 Events
Fall 2011 Events
Interrogation Policy after Osama bin Laden
Glenn Carle, former CIA interrogator
Kenneth Himes, O.F.M, Boston College
Sanford Levinson, University of Texas School of Law
Moderated by Erik Owens, Boston College
Monday, September 12, 2011 • 6:30PM • Higgins 310
Author Meets Critics: Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It by Alan Wolfe
Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
James Traub, New York Times Magazine
Moderated by Erik Owens, Boston College
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 • 6:00PM • Higgins 300
The Life and Work of Christian Legal Theorist William Stuntz
David Skeel, Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School
Thursday, September 22, 2011 • Boisi Center • 12:00-1:15PM
Iran and the Arab Spring: Tehran's Love-Hate Relationship with People Power
Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 • Boisi Center • 12:00-1:15PM
Pelagius and Augustine: A Contemporary Take on an Ancient Controversy
Tzvetan Todorov, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 • 5:30PM • McGuinn Hall 334
Faculty Seminar: On Political Messianism (reading The Totalitarian Experience, 2011)
Tzvetan Todorov, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 • Boisi Center • 9:00AM-10:30AM
Graduate Student Seminar: Art, Politics, Morality (reading The Limits of Art, 2011)
Tzvetan Todorov, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris
Thursday, October 6, 2011 • Boisi Center • 10:30AM-12:00PM
Religion in America: A Political History
Denis Lacorne, CERI, Sciences-Po (France)
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 • Boisi Center • 12:00-1:15PM
Social Ethics and Social Practice in Puritan New England: A Reconsideration
David Hall, Harvard Divinity School
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 • Boisi Center • 12:00-1:15PM
Writers Save: How Poets and Novelists Came to Comfort the Faithful and Strengthen the Doubters
Alan Jacobs, Wheaton College
Respondent: Judith Wilt, Boston College
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 • 5:00PM • Gasson 305
How God Commands Religious Liberty: Islamic Minarets and Liberal Democracy
Gregor Scherzinger, University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Thursday, December 1, 2011 • Boisi Center • 12:00-1:15PM