Alan Wolfe’s tenure as director of Boston College’s Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life will be celebrated April 14 with a daylong conference in Gasson 100
Among those taking part in “Religion and American Public Life: The Calling of a Public Intellectual,” which begins at 8:45 a.m., are Harvard University MacArthur Prize-winning developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, University of Texas legal scholar and US Constitution analyst Sanford Levinson, Princeton University political and social historian Ira Katznelson and William Galston, former advisor to President Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Author and expert on secularism Susan Jacoby, Fuller Theological Seminary Professor of Faith and Public Life Richard J. Mouw and Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy – whose research interests include regulation of race relations – also will be at the conference.
Wolfe’s BC colleagues Professor of Political Science Susan Shell and Professor of Economics Joseph Quinn will serve as moderators, respectively, for the panel discussions “Return of the Study of Religion and Political Science” and “Public Scholarship Today.”
University President William P. Leahy, SJ, and Boisi Center Associate Director Erik Owens will offer a welcome; Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley will provide an introduction to the conference’s closing event, a keynote conversation between Wolfe and Gardner. A reception will follow at the Boisi Center.
For event information and registration, visit the Boisi Center.
By Sean Smith | News and Public Affairs