College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Week of Events
Constructing the Social: What Does the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Media Have to Do with Collaboration?
Constructing the Social: What Does the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Media Have to Do with Collaboration?
A talk given by Tyler Quiring, CMJ Doctoral Student as a part of the CMJ Colloquium Series. Dunn Hall 424
University of Montreal Professor to Give Talk on Friendship
University of Montreal Professor to Give Talk on Friendship
On March 6, from 4:00 to 5:30PM the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, as part of the Life of Ideas series, curated by Frédéric Rondeau, will host scholar Éric Méchoulan. Méchoulan will give a talk titled “On Friendship: A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook.” Éric Méchoulan is an early modernist and cultural historian with […]
Stephen E. King Chair Lecture: “Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, Academic Advocacy, and Restorative Justice”
Stephen E. King Chair Lecture: “Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, Academic Advocacy, and Restorative Justice”
Presented by James M. Smith, an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. His book Irish Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment, was praised by Colm Tóibín as essential reading "for anyone interested in the fear and cruelty surrounding women's sexuality in the Ireland of the recent past." The […]