Events at the McFarland Center

Summer 2013

June 26-28, 2013
International Word and Image Conference: Re-Readings and Re-Viewings of Sacred/Archetypal Narratives in Literature and the Arts — Examine both the common grounds and the distinctions underscored in sacred and archetypal narratives within traditions as well as across diverse cultures. Speakers will include Paul Mariani, award-winning poet and University Professor at Boston College; Lilianne Louvel, Distinguished Professor at the Université de Poitier; and Michael Phillips, scholar, print maker, and fellow at the Center for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York. This event is organized by the international French/ English journal INTERFACES, the College of the Holy Cross, the Université Paris Diderot, and the Université de Bourgogne. Learn more.

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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Cost-benefit Analysis of Oil Drilling in the Niger Delta: An Ethical Approach - Julia Finomo is an environmentalist and a lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. She will address the environmental degradation caused by an increase of oil spills and gas flares since the discovery of oil in Nigeria in 1956.
4:30 p.m., Rehm Library

Thursday, October 24, 2013
Jewish Music and Musicians from 17th-Century Italy to 21st-Century America: The Sounds of Faith, Perseverance and Optimism - Mark Kroll is professor emeritus at Boston University and harpsichordist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His lecture-recital will trace, in words and music, the rise, fall, and rebirth of the Jewish performers and composers such as Salomone Rossi, Felix Mendelssohn, Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Bernstein and others. Supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding.
4:30 p.m., Rehm Library

Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Shared Responsibility: Re-imagining the Future of Governance in the Church - Mary McAleese is the popular former president of Ireland, serving two terms from 1997 to 2011, and author of "Quo Vadis? Collegiality in the Code of Canon Law" (Columbia Press, 2013). She will bring her experience in civil law and governance and her study of canon (church) law to a discussion of how authority might be more effectively shared in the church for the sake of realizing the vision of Vatican II.
7:30 p.m., Hogan Ballroom

Thursday, November 7, 2013
Amy-Jill Levine, University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University, will talk about Jesus and how Judaism influenced his Christian teachings.
7:30 p.m., Rehm Library

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