Spring 2011 Events
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
Spring 2011 Events

The BC Dilemma: The Business Life and the Kingdom of Heaven: Does a Camel have an Easier Time with the Needle?
Paul Solman, PBS NewsHour
Saturday, January 29, 2011
10:30 AM–2:30 PM • 10 Stone Ave. conference room
A workshop for graduate and undergraduate students, sponsored by the Clough Center.

The Limits of International Human Rights Law in the U.S. Constitution
Hiroshi Nakazato, Boston College
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center

Climate Change and Christian Ethics
Willis Jenkins, Yale Divinity School
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center

The Legal and Religious Status of Women in Nigerian Society
Hauwa Ibrahim, Harvard Divinity School
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center

Toleration and Freedom:
The American Experience in Context
Co-sponsored by the Boston University
Institute for Philosophy and Religion
Friday, March 25, 2011
9:45AM-6:30PM
Photonics Center Colloquium Room, Boston University

New Imaging Technologies at the End of Life: Promises and Ethical Challenges
Andrea Vicini, S.J., M.D., Boston College
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center

Perfect Storm: How the Imminent Crisis in Higher Education Can Strengthen Liberal Education
W. Robert Connor, Teagle Foundation
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
4:30-6:00PM • Campion 139
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy (CSTEEP).

The Risk of Civil Society
Voluntary Associations and Political Stability in Ancient and Modern Thought
Yonder Gillihan, Boston College
Thursday, April 14, 2011
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center

Wanting It All:
Women and the State of Feminism in America
Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University
Cynthia Young, Boston College
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
7:00-8:30 PM • Devlin 101, Boston College

Last Best Hope: International Lives of the American Civil War
David Quigley, Boston College
Thursday, April 28, 2011
12:00-1:15 PM • Boisi Center

Lingua Sacra:
Negotiating God-talk in America
David Belton & Sarah Colt, WGBH Boston
Cynthia L. Lyerly & Mark S. Massa, S.J., BC
Rachel Gordan, Harvard University
Moderated by Erik Owens, Boisi Center
Thursday, April 28, 2011
4:00 PM • Cushing 001, Boston College
Co-sponsored by the Office of Marketing and Communications
and the School of Theology and Ministry