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
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
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
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.