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boisi center for religion and american public life
Spring 2011
The Limits of International Human Rights Law in the U.S. Constitution
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
• Hiroshi Nakazato, Boston College
Climate Change and Christian Ethics
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
• Willis Jenkins, Yale Divinity School
The Legal and Religious Status of Women in Nigerian Society
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
• Hauwa Ibrahim, Harvard Divinity School
New Imaging Technologies at the End of Life: Promises and Ethical Challenges
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
• Andrea Vicini, S.J., M.D., Boston College
Perfect Storm: How the Imminent Crisis in Higher Education Can Strengthen Liberal Education
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
• W. Robert Connor, Teagle Foundation
The Risk of Civil Society Voluntary Associations and Political Stability in Ancient and Modern Thought
Thursday, April 14, 2011
• Yonder Gillihan, Boston College
Wanting It All: Women and the State of Feminism in America
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
• Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University
• Cynthia Young, Boston College
Fall 2010
Humanitarian Intervention and the "Responsibility to Protect"
Thursday, September 16, 2010
• David Hollenbach, SJ, Boston College
• Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
The Rising Power of the American Dead
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
• Ray Madoff, Boston College Law School
Presidential Roulette
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
• Richard Albert, Boston College Law School
Author Meets Critics: Damon Linker's The Religious Test
Thursday, November 11, 2010
• Damon Linker, Contributing Editor of The New Republic
• Patrick Deneen, Georgetown University
• Mark Silk, Trinity College
The 10th Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture: The University in the 21st Century: Thinking about Ethics, Persons, and Discourse
Thursday, November 18, 2010
• James F. Keenan, SJ, Boston College
The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
• Eric Nelson, Harvard University
Spring 2010
Benedict XVI and the U.S. Bishops: Political Differences and the Difference They Make
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
• Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College
Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the Financial Services Industry
Thursday, February 4, 2010
• Geoffrey T. Boisi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Roundtable Investment Partners LLC/p>
Rousseau's Paradoxical Legacy
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
• Ourida Mostefai, Boston College
After the Culture War?: Shifts and Continuities in the Obama Era and Beyond
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
• John Dombrink, University of California, Irvine
Philanthropy as Spiritual Exercise: Soul, Relationships and Community
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
• Paul Schervish, Boston College
Exporting the First Freedom
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
• Martha Bayles, Boston College
The 9th Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture: Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
Thursday, March 25, 2010
• Robert George, Princeton University
What Has HIV/AIDS Led Us To Understand about Global Ethical Challenges?
Thursday, April 8, 2010
• James Keenan, S.J., Boston College
A Matter of Conscience : Religious Exemptions and the Healthcare Debate
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
• Melissa Rogers, Wake Forest University
• Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Harvard University
• Dr. Michael Greene, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
FALL 2009
Democracy (For Me): Religious and Secular Beliefs in Turkey and Liberal Democracy
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
• Murat Somer, Koç University in Istanbul
The Church, the Economy, and Social Justice: Reflections on Caritas in Veritate
Thursday, October 8, 2009
• Daniel Finn, St. John's University
• Robert Imbelli, Boston College
• Stephen Pope, Boston College
1960 and 2008: The Continuities and Disparities Between Obama and Kennedy
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Shaun Casey, Wesley Theological Seminary
Israel and Palestine: the State of the Question
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
• Raymond Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Richard Norton, Boston University
• Col. Desmond Travers, The International Institute for Criminal Investigations
Evangelicals and the Catholic Mind: From Repulsion to Attraction
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
• Tal Howard, Gordon College
"We Are BC": Academic and Athletic Excellence on the Heights
Thursday, November 5, 2009
• Gene DeFilippo, Boston College
Torture: Is it Always Wrong?
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
• Kenneth Himes, O.F.M., Boston College
Secularization and Contemporary Religious Renewal in Europe
Thursday, December 3, 2009
• Danièle Hervieu-Léger, l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Religion, History, and Education: Facing History and Ourselves
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
• Adam Strom, Facing History and Ourselves
Spring 2009
Ways of Knowing: Field Science in the 21st Century
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
• Noah Snyder, Boston College
Realism, Ethics & US Foreign Policy
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
• Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago
• Fr. Bryan Hehir, Harvard University
• Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University
FALL 2008
The Roosevelt Legacy: How FDR Shaped the Modern Presidency
Wendesday, September 17, 2008
• Patrick Maney, Boston College
Invisibility Syndrome of African Americans in Educational Institutions
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
• Anderson J. Franklin, Boston College
Catholics and the 2008 Election
Thursday, October 9, 2008
• Amy Sullivan, TIME Magazine
• Michael Sean Winters, America and Catholic World Magazines
• Alan Wolfe, moderator
Madison's Hand: Remembering the Constitutional Convention (Thoughts on the History of the Book and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition)
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
• Mary Bilder, Boston College
2008 Election Roundtable
Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
• Kay Schlozman, Boston College
• Marc Landy, Boston College
"Ways of Knowing:" Re-integrating Spirituality in the Catholic University and Liberal Arts
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• James W. Morris, Boston College
Giving the Dead Their Living Voices: On Writing Biography
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
• Paul Mariani, Boston College
Spring 2008
Muslims in the United States
Wednesday,January 30, 2008
• Peter Skerry, Boston College
The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
• David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania
Assessing the 2008 "Super Primary"
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
• Marc Landy, Boston College
• Kay Schlozman, Boston College
Mormons in America
Thursday, February 14, 2008
• Clayton Christensen
Just Schools
Wednesday,January 30, 2008
• Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
What Do We Owe the Iraqis?
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
• Andrew Bacevich, Boston University
• Fr. Bryan Hehir, Boston College
• Fr. Paul McNellis, SJ, Boston College
Immigration the Scandinavian Welfare State
Thursday, April 10, 2008
• Grete Brochmann, University of Oslo
"Yes, God Is Real": A Born-Again Public Intellectual Reflects on Catholic Faith in Reason and Community
Thursday, April 17, 2008
• John DiIluio, University of Pennsylvania
Gay Marriage in Theology, Law and Politics
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
• William Stacy Johnson
• David Blankenhorn
• Kerry Healey
• Cheryl Jacques
FALL 2007
A Thirty-third Stone? Civil Religion, Mourning and Memorials at Virginia Tech
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
• Jerome Copulsky, Goucher College
Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil
Thursday, October 4, 2007
• Emilie Townes, Yale Divinity School
Author Meets Critics: A Theology of Public Life
Thursday, October 11, 2007
• Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia
• Ronald Thiemann, Harvard Divinity School
• David Hollenbach, S.J., Boston College
• Erik Owens, Boston College
Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
• Daniel Kanstroom, Boston College
The 7th Annual Prophetic Voices of the Church Lecture: Failing America's Faithful
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Georgetown University
SPRING 2007
The Role of Catholic Universities in American Public Life
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
• David O'Brien, College of the Holy Cross
"The Theocons" in American Public Life
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
• Damon Linker, author ofThe Theocons: Secular America Under Siege
• Jorge Garcia, Boston College
• Moderator: Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Islam in Europe and the United States
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
• Kishwer Falkner, Baroness of Margravine, U.K. House of Lords
Current Developments in Middle Eastern Politics and Religion
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
• Shai Feldman, Brandeis University
FALL 2006
Judging Intelligent Design: Should the Courts Decide What Counts as Science or Religion?
Thursday, September 28, 2006
• Jay Wexler, Boston University School of Law
Integrating Islam in France (and Europe)
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
• Jonathan Laurence, Boston College
Religious Freedom and the Pledge of Allegiance
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
• Michael Newdow, plaintiff
• Wendy Kaminer, Lawyer and social critic
• Phillip Muñoz, Tufts University
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Overcoming Religious Illiteracy Through Public Education
Thursday, November 2, 2006
• Diane L. Moore, Harvard Divinity School
Religion and the 2006 Mid-Term Elections
Thursday, November 9, 2006
• Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect
• Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College