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Fall 2010
The University in the 21st Century: Thinking about Ethics, Persons, and Discourse
Thursday, Nov. 18th, 2010
• James F. Keenan, SJ, Boston College
Humanitarian Intervention and the "Responsibility to Protect"
Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010
• David Hollenbach, SJ, Boston College
• Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
Spring 2010
Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
Thursday, Mar 25, 2010
• Robert George, Princeton University
A Matter of Conscience : Religious Exemptions and the Healthcare Debate
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
• Michael F. Greene, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Harvard University and the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
• Melissa Rogers, Wake Forest University
Fall 2009
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
"We Are BC": Academic and Athletic Excellence on the Heights
Thursday, November 5, 2009
• Gene DeFilippo, Boston College
Spring 2009
Author Meets Critics: The Future of Liberalism
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
• Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College
• Daniel J Mahoney, Assumption College
Human Evolution and Christian Ethics
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
• Stephen Pope, 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
One Nation Under God? The Role of Religion in American Public Life
Saturday, November 22, 2008
• Mass Humanities 2008 Symposium
American Secularism for American Muslims: Challenges and Prospects
Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Abdullahi An-Na'im
Spring 2008
Assessing the 2008 "Super Primary"
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
• Marc Landy, Boston College
• Kay Schlozman, Boston College
FALL 2007
Student Debate on Gambling
Thursday, November 8, 2007
• Josh Darr, Boston College
• Timothy Mooney, Boston College
Failing America's Faithful: 7th Annual Prophetic Voices in the Church Lecture
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Georgetown University
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
Spring 2007
Blasphemy in Ink: The Danish Mohammed Cartoons and their Fallout
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
• John McCoy, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
Red and Blue Nation?
Thursday, March 29, 2007
• Bill Galston, Brookings Institution
• Hahrie Han, Wellesley College
• Marc Landy, Boston College
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
“The Danger of Prophecy” 6th Annual Prophetic Voices of the Church Lecture
Thursday, March 15, 2007
• Rev. Peter Gomes, Harvard University
Headscarves and Holy Days: Should the Law Make Exceptions?
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
• Leah Farish, civil rights attorney
• Marci Hamilton, Yeshiva University
• Jytte Klausen, Brandeis University
• Erik Owens, Boston College
FALL 2006
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
SPRING 2006
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code or the Enduring Appeal of Conspiracy Theories
Friday, April 26, 2006
• Harold Attridge, Yale Divinity School
Pope Benedict After One Year
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
• Thomas Groome
• Kenneth Himes
• Mary Ann Hinsdale
• James Weiss
• Alan Wolfe
FALL 2005
Retracing the Struggle, Part II: The Social and Political Impact of the Voting Rights Act
Saturday, October 29, 2005
• Abigail Thernstrom, Manhattan Institute
• Patricia Williams, Columbia University
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
God's Politics After Katrina
Monday, October 17, 2005
• Jim Wallis, Sojourners
SPRING 2005
Writers Among Us
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
SPRING 2004
Religion and the Presidential Election
Monday, April 26, 2004
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
• Elaine Kamarck, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
• E.J. Dionne, Georgetown University
Being the Hands of God: The Jewish Call to Social Justice
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
• David Saperstein, Georgetown University
FALL 2003
The Future of American Religion: A Conversation
Tuesday, November 4, 2003
• R. Scott Appleby, Notre Dame University
• David Brooks, The New York Times
• Wendy Kaminer, The Atlantic Monthly
• Peter Steinfels, The New York Times
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
The Role of Religion and Faith-based Initiatives in Urban Communities
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
• Stephen Goldsmith, Special Adviser to President Bush on Faith-based Initiatives
• Marc Landy, Boston College
• Thomas Massaro, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
• Joseph O'Keefe, Boston College
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College
SPRING 2003
The Real State of the Union
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
• Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic Monthly
• Michael Lind
• Michael Calabrese
• Maya MacGuineas
• Karen Kornbluh
• Alan Wolfe, Boston College