Archived Events
institute for the liberal arts
Spring 2012
| Date & Time |
Location | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, Feb 1 6:45 p.m. |
Heights Room | Social Innovation Symposium RSVP Required | Details |
| Thu, Feb 2 7:30 p.m. |
McGuinn Hall, Room 121 |
College Sports: Money Changers in the Temple? with Charles Clotfelter | Details |
| Thu, Feb 9 4:00 p.m. |
Stuart 411, Newton Campus |
Policy Adaptation from the Bottom Up: The Case of Prostitution Diversion Programs with Corey Shdaimah | Details |
| Sat, Feb 11 4:00 p.m. |
St. Mary's Chapel | The Game of Love: Open Dress Rehearsal for the BC Community by the Boston Camerata | Details |
| Tue, Feb 14 | Devlin 101 | Junot Díaz Book Discussion | Details |
| Wed, Mar 21 7:30 p.m. |
Devlin 008 | University Fault Lines: Escalating Tensions Between Athletics & Academics with Jay Coakley | Details |
| Tue, Mar 27 7:30 p.m. |
Higgins 300 | College Sport In The Age of The Super Conference: What Will Be Left Standing In The End? with Ellen Staurowsky | Details |
| Thu, Mar 22 - Sat, Mar 24 |
Gasson Commons |
After the Unthinkable: Trauma, Nachträglichkeit, and Coming to Terms Symposium | Details |
| Fri, Mar 30 - Sun, Apr 1 |
2101 Comm Ave, Brighton Campus | Authority, Leadership and Social Justice: Here and Now Conference | Details | Brochure |
| Mon, Apr 2 5:00 p.m. |
Devlin 101 | Senses and Values of Oneness with Philip J. Ivanhoe | Details |
| Wed, Apr 18 7:00 p.m. |
Devlin 008 | Hoodwinked! What Wrecked our Economy? How to Fix It with John Perkins | Details |
| Sat, Apr 21 | Devlin Hall | Joyce and Religions Conference with Keynote Speaker Fintan O'Toole | Details |
| Thu, Apr 26 - Fri, Apr 27 |
Higgins 300 & Thompson Room, Burns Library | Unbelievable: Jacques Derrida and "Religion" Conference Details | Register Now |
Fall 2011
| Date & Time |
Location | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, Sep 21 5:00 p.m. |
Devlin 101 |
A Phenomenology of Cultural Racism: Veils, Bodies, and the Nature of Culture with Professor Alia Al-Saji | Details |
| Wed, Sep 21 5:30 p.m. |
426 Murray Function Room Yawkey Center |
The World of Matteo Ricci with Ronnie Po-chia Hsia | Details |
| Wed, Oct 12 7:30 p.m. |
St. Mary's Chapel | Masterworks from the Jesuit German College in Rome: Tomás Luis de Victoria and Giacomo Carissimi Jesuits & Music Series | Details |
| Thu, Oct 13 7:30 p.m. |
St. Mary's Chapel & McMullen Museum |
Making History-Making Music: the Jesuit musical tradition in Rome and England Jesuits & Music Series | Details |
| Sat, Oct 15 8:00 p.m. |
First Church Congregational, Cambridge |
Celebrating Tomás Luis de Victoria on the feast of St Teresa of Ávila Jesuits & Music Series |
| Fri, Oct 21 9:00 a.m.- 5:00p.m. |
McGuinn Hall Room 521 |
Practicing Plenitude: Social Innovation for Sustainable Lifestyles | Details |
| Sat, Oct 29 8:30 a.m. |
Heights Room | Science in the Liberal Arts University: Why it Matters to Us All ILA Symposium | Details |
| Fri, Nov 4 - Sun, Nov 6 |
Gasson 100 | Haskins Society Annual Conference Details |
| Wed, Nov 6 6:00 p.m. |
Gasson Commons | Polysemy and Dissemination: Ricoeur and Derrida, Lecture by Professor C. Eddo Evink History of Modern Philosophy, University of Groningen |
Spring 2011
| Date & Time | Location | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Feb 11 7:00 p.m. |
Devlin Hall Room 008 |
Tournées Film Festival: Un Secret (French Film Festival) |
| Sun, Feb 13 4:00 p.m. |
Devlin Hall Room 008 |
Tournées Film Festival: L'Origine de la Tendresse et autres contes |
| Wed, Feb 16 4:00 p.m. |
Devlin Hall Room 008 |
Tournées Film Festival: Séraphine |
| Mon, Feb 21 7:00 p.m. |
Devlin Hall Room 008 |
Tournées Film Festival: Welcome |
| Fri, Feb 25 7:00 p.m. |
Devlin Hall Room 008 |
Tournées Film Festival: Coco avant Chanel |
| Mon, Feb 28 | TBD | Global Asia Initiatives: Eric Hayot |
| Tue, Mar 15 8:00 p.m. |
St. Mary's Chapel | Blue Heron Renaissance Ensemble |
| Thu, Mar 31 5:30 p.m. |
Devlin Hall Room 008 |
Global Humanities Project: Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University "C.L.R. James and the Critique of Haitian Revolutionary Violence" |
| Wed, Apr 6 4:30 p.m. |
Vanderslice Cabaret Room |
Race and Culture in the U.S. After 9/11 Amitava Kumar, Vassar College |
| Thu, Apr 7 | African and African Diaspora Studies Lecture, Chimamanda Adichie |
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| Sat, Apr 9 8:00 a.m. |
Hovey House | Human Rights and Religion in Historical Perspective |
| Thu, Apr 14 | Devlin Hall Room 001 |
Global Humanities Project: Sabine MacCormack Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, Notre Dame University "Four Kinds of War and None of them Holy? Theories and Practices of Warfare in the Spanish Monarchy of the Sixteenth Century" |
| Sat, Apr 16 10:00 a.m. |
Cushing Hall Room 001 |
Frederick Wiseman: Screening of film State Legislature (2006) |
| Thu, May 5 |
Bridging Science and Humanities Conference (Daniel Harris-McCoy) |
Fall 2010
| Date & Time |
Location | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, Oct 6 4:30 p.m. |
McGuinn Room 121 |
Race and Culture After 9/11 Sunaina Maira: "Missing Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11" |
| Thu, Oct 14 8:00 p.m. |
St. Mary's Chapel | Blue Heron Renaissance Ensemble |
| Fri, Oct 15- Sat, Oct 16 |
9 Lake Street, Room 100 |
Conference on the Visual Arts, Music, and Literature “The Pamphilj and The Arts: Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome” |
| Fri, Nov 5 4:30 p.m. |
Devlin Hall Room 101 |
Northeast Milton Seminar Lecture Paul Stevens, University of Toronto "Obnoxious Satan: Milton, Neo-roman Theory, and the Terms of Grace" |
| Fri, Nov 5- Sun, Nov 7 |
Charles Homer Haskins, Society for Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin History 29th Annual International Conference |
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| Tue, Nov 9 7:00 p.m. |
Murray Function Room |
Gish Jen, Reading from World and Town, with book signing |
| Wed, Nov 10 4:00 p.m. |
McGuinn Room 121 |
Gish Jen, "Book Club" style discussion of World and Town |
| Thu, Nov 11 4:45 p.m. |
Devlin Hall Room 008 |
Moderated Asian American Studies Q&A, with Min Song and Gish Jen in dialogue, followed by questions from audience and a reception |
| Sat, Nov 13 9:00 a.m. |
Heights Room | Old and New Territories: Remapping the Liberal Arts for the Twenty-first Century ILA Symposium |
| Thu, Nov 18 7:00 p.m. |
Devlin Hall 7:00 p.m. |
Re/Imagining the Sacred: Theism, Atheism, and Anatheism with James Wood, Harvard University, in conversation with Richard Kearney, Boston College |
| Thu, Nov 18 5:00 p.m. |
Devlin Hall Room 101 |
Talking Times: Literary and Political Lives in the Young Ireland Era with Roy Foster |