Interviews
boisi center for religion and american public life
Jonathan Ebel, University of Illinois
For God and Country: Religion and the U.S. Military
Tuesday, February 9, 2012
Glenn Carle, CIA Veteran
Interrogation Policy After Osama Bin Ladin
Monday, September 12, 2011
Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Author Meets Critics: Political Evil
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania Law School
The Life and Work of Christian Legal Theorist William Stuntz
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor
Iran and the Arab Spring: Tehran's Love-Hate Relationship with People Power
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Tzvetan Todorov, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris
Pelagius and Augustine: A Contemporary Take on an Ancient Controversy
Tuesday, Octover 4, 2011
Denis Lacorne, CERI, Sciences-Po (France)
Religion in America: A Political History
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
David Hall, Harvard Divinity School
Social Ethics and Social Practice in Puritan New England: A Reconsideration
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Alan Jacobs, Wheaton College
Writers Save: How Poets and Novelists Came to Comfort the Faithful and Strengthen the Doubters
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Gregor Scherzinger, University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
How God Commands Religious Liberty: Islamic Minarets and Liberal Democracy
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Spring 2011
Hiroshi Nakazato, Boston College
The Limits of International Human Rights Law in the U.S. Constitution
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Willis Jenkins, Yale University
Climate Change and Christian Ethics
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Hauwa Ibrahim, Harvard Divinity School
The Legal and Religious Status of Women in Nigerian Society
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Andrea Vicini, Boston College
New Imaging Technologies at the End of Life: Promises and Ethical Challenges
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Yonder Gillihan, Boston College
The Risk of Civil Society: Voluntary Associations and Political Stability in Ancient and Modern Thought
Thursday, April 14, 2011
David Quigley, Boston College
Last Best Hope: International Lives of the American Civil War
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Fall 2010
Ray Madoff, Boston College Law School
The Rising Power of the American Dead
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Richard Albert, Boston College Law School
Presidential Roulette
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010
Damon Linker, The New Republic
Patrick Deneen, Georgetown University
Mark Silk, Trinity College
Author Meets Critics: "The Religious Test"
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Eric Nelson, Harvard University
The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Spring 2010
Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College
Benedict XVI and the U.S. Bishops: Political Differences and the Difference They Make
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Geoffrey T. Boisi, Roundtable Investment Partners LLC
Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the Financial Services Industry
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Ourida Mostefai, Boston College
Rousseau's Paradoxical Legacy
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
John Dombrink, University of California Irvine
After the Culture War?: Shifts and Continuities in the Obama Era and Beyond
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Paul Schervish, Boston College
Philanthropy as Spiritual Exercise: Soul, Relationships and Community
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Robert George, Princeton University
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
9th Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Fall 2009
Murat Somer, Koç University in Istanbul
Democracy (For Me): Religious and Secular Beliefs in Turkey and Liberal Democracy
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Daniel Finn, St. John's University
Robert Imbelli, Boston College
Stephen Pope, Boston College
The Church, the Economy, and Social Justice: Reflections on Caritas in Veritate
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Shaun Casey, Wesley Theological Seminary
1960 and 2008: The Continuities and Disparities Between Obama and Kennedy
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Spring 2009
Noah Snyder, Boston College
Ways of Knowing: Field Science in the 21st Century
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
James Bernauer, S.J., Boston College
The Faiths of a Catholic University: Personal or Impersonal?
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago
Fr. Bryan Hehir, Harvard University
Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University
Realism, Ethics & US Foreign Policy
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Rosanna DeMarco, Boston College
Ways of Knowing and Catholic Intellectual Traditions: Women Living with HIV/AIDS in the US
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Crystal Tiala, Boston College
Intuition, Emotion and Visualization
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Timothy Samuel Shah, Council on Foreign Relations
Redeeming Freedom: Evangelicals and Democracy, Around the World and Across Time
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Paul Davidovits, Boston College
Scientific Knowledge and Faith
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Fall 2008
Patrick Maney, Boston College
The Roosevelt Legacy: How FDR Shaped the Modern Presidency
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Anderson J. Franklin, Boston College
Invisibility Syndrome of African Americans in Educational Institutions
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Amy Sullivan, TIME Magazine
Michael Sean Winters, America and Catholic World Magazines
Alan Wolfe, moderator
Catholics and the 2008 Election
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College
Madison's Hand: Remembering the Constitutional Convention (Thoughts on the History of the Book and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition)
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
James W. Morris, Boston College
"Ways of Knowing:" Re-integrating Spirituality in the Catholic University and Liberal Arts
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Abdullahi An-Na'im
Eighth Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture American Secularism for American Muslims: Challenges and Prospects
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Paul Mariani, Boston College
Giving the Dead Their Living Voices: On Writing Biography
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
SPRING 2008
David Skeel, Univ. of Pennsylvania
The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School
Mormons in American Politics
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
Just Schools
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Andrew Bacevich, Boston University
What Do We Owe the Iraqis?
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Grete Brochmann, University of Oslo
Immigration & the Scandinavian Welfare State
Thursday, April 10, 2008
John DiIluio, University of Pennsylvania
"Yes, God Is Real": A Born-Again Public Intellectual Reflects on Catholic Faith in Reason and Community
Thursday, April 17, 2008
FALL 2007
Jerome Copulsky, Goucher College
A Thirty-third Stone? Civil Religion, Mourning and Memorials at Virginia Tech
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Emilie Townes, Yale Divinity School
Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia
Author Meets Critics: A Theology of Public Life
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Daniel Kanstroom, Boston College
Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Georgetown University
The 7th Annual Prophetic Voices of the Church Lecture: Failing America's Faithful
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Spring 2007
David O'Brien, College of the Holy Cross
The Role of Catholic Universities in American Public Life
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Damon Linker, author of The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege
The Theocons in American Public Life
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Kishwer Falkner, Baroness of Margravine, U.K. House of Lords
Islam in Europe and the United States
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Shai Feldman, Brandeis University
Current Developments in Middle Eastern Politics and Religion
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Fall 2006
Jay Wexler, Boston University School of Law
Judging Intelligent Design: Should the Courts Decide What Counts as Science or Religion?
September 28, 2006
Jonathan Laurence, Boston College
Integrating Islam in France (and Europe)
October 4, 2006
Michael Newdow, plaintiff
Religious Freedom and the Pledge of Allegiance
October 18, 2006
Diane L. Moore, Harvard Divinity School
Overcoming Religious Illiteracy Through Public Education
November 2, 2006
Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect and Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College
Religion and the 2006 Mid-Term Elections
November 9, 2006
Grete Brochmann, University of Oslo
Immigration & the Scandinavian Welfare State
Thursday, April 10, 2008