Events

 

BC Graduate Seminar: Hosting the Stranger

SPRING 2009

Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts

Professor Richard Kearney of the Boston College Philosophy Department will direct "Hosting the Stranger," a graduate seminar in collaboration with MIT, in Spring 2009. 


Conference: Inter-Religious Hospitality in the Five Wisdom Traditions

March 13 and 14, 2009 

 

Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts

Conference: 'Inter-Religious Hospitality in the Five Wisdom Traditions' (Devlin 101 and Devlin 008) (March 13-14) 

 

(a) 'Hospitality in Jewish Culture’, Panel with Ed Kaplan (Brandeis) and Jacob Meskin (Hebrew College), Friday 13th @ 3 - 4:30pm (Devlin 008

(b) 'Hospitality in Christian Culture’, Panel with Cat javascript"> herine Cornille (BC) and Patrick Hederman (Abbot of Glenstal Abbey), Saturday 14th @ 9:30am - 11:00pm (Devlin 101) 

(c) 'Hospitality in Muslim Culture’, Panel with Dana Sajdi (BC) and Joseph Lumbard (Brandeis), Saturday 14th @ 11:30am - 1:00pm (Devlin 101) 

(d) ‘Hospitality in Hindu Culture’, Panel with Francis Clooney (Harvard) and Swami Tyagananda (Harvard and Vedanta Institute), Saturday 14th @ 2:00pm - 3:30pm (Devlin 101) 

(e)  ‘Hospitality in Buddhist Culture’, Panel with Andy Rotman (Amherst) John Makransky (BC), Saturday 14th @ 4:00pm - 5:30pm (Devlin 101) 

 


 

Concert: Songs of Sacred Welcome

March 13, 2009 

 

Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts

Concert: Songs of Sacred Welcome (Noirin Ni Riain & Company at Saint Mary's Chapel, 8:00 pm) (March 13)

 

Lecture: Dorothy Cross

April 1, 2009 

 

 

Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts

Guestbook/Lowell Lecture in Devlin 101( 5:30 pm): "Strangers of the Deep" by artist Dorothy Cross (April 1st)

 

 

Festival: Poetries of the Stranger

April 17-19, 2009 


Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts

 

FRIDAY April 17th @ 7pm ~ Strange Voice


James Tate
Fanny Howe
John Ashbery 

SATURDAY, April 18th @ 7pm ~ Strange Image 

Henri Cole
Jorie Graham
Mark Strand 

SUNDAY, April 19th @ 7pm ~ Strange Place

Adam Zagajewski
Lucie Brock-Broido
Derek Walcott 

 

Lecture: Noam Chomsky and Others

April 22, 2009 

 

 

Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts

Guestbook Seminar in Merkert 127 (6:30 pm): "Hostility and Hospitality in World Politics" (April 22nd)

 

 

Conference: Phenomenologies of the Stranger

May 2, 2009 by GBP

Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts

Conference: 'Phenomenologies of the Stranger' in Devlin 101 (11am - 5:30pm) (May 2nd)

 

Moderated by Richard Kearney

 

Panel 1: Jack Caputo, Karmen MacKendrick (John Manoussakis)

Panel 2: Simon Critchley, William Richardson (Vanessa Rumble)

Panel 3: Edward Casey and David Wood (Chair Kalpana Shesadri)

 

 

 

 

Anne Carson, Harold Bloom, Lewis Hyde

October 18, 2009 by GBP

Poet Anne Carson, critic Harold Bloom and scholar Lewis Hyde will appear at Boston College as part of the Guestbook Project in Spring 2010. More details to be announced.