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The Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture offers free podcasts and streaming media of select programs online, bringing the discussion of meaning, morality, and mutual obligation to a new, global forum. Click on the links below to either listen online or download the audio podcast to your iTunes account. Be sure to check back often for new media.
The lectures are ordered in reverse chronological. Search our alphabetical directory of speakers.
2011-2012
William Julius Wilson
Keynote speaker at the conference "The Other America Then and Now," commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark analysis of poverty, The Other America by Michael Harrington '47, William Julius Wilson speaks on "Toward a Holistic Study of Urban Poverty: Why Both Social Structure and Culture Mattter." Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the author of The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; and When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor.
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More Videos from The Other America Then and Now, March 22-23, 2012
• Maurice Isserman
Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College and author of The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington
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• David J. O'Brien
Professor Emeritus of History and Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross
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• Thomas J. Sugrue
David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis
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• Alan Wolfe
Professor of Political Science and Director of The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College
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• Michael Kazin
Professor of History at Georgetown University and co-editor of Dissent
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• Peter Dreier
E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Political Science and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College
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• Annette Lareau
Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania
Author of Unequal Childhoods: Race, Class, and Family Life
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• Timothy Black
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hartford
Author of When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers on and off the Streets
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• Bruce Western
Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and author of Punishment and Inequality in America
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• Dave McMahon
Co-executive director of Dismas House of Massachusetts, Inc. Followed by Arthur Rosenberg, a former prisoner and Dismas House resident who is now its director of operations.
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• Zama Coursen Neff
Deputy director of the children's rights division of Human Rights Watch and author of Fields of Peril: Child Labor in US Agriculture, a Human Rights Watch report. Followed by Norma Flores Lopez, a former child farm worker who is now director of the Children in the Fields Campaign, Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
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Marion Kaplan
Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History and professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, Marion Kaplan talks about "Jewish Life in Nazi Germany" — focusing on how women and families struggled with the social ostracism, economic hardship and segregration under Nazi oppression in the years leading up to the 1938 pogrom, Kristallnacht. Her talk, given April 25, 2012, was the annual Derrick Lecture, sponored by the Department of History with support from Peace and Conflict Studies, Philosophy and the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.
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Rena Finder
When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, Rena Ferber Finder was a Jewish girl living in Kracow. In this oral history, she shares her stories of life before the war, being relocated to the ghetto, time spent in Auschwitz, and working for German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who ultimately saved her. April 24, 2012
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Eliza Griswold
Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold spent seven years traveling and researching in regions of North Africa and Central Asia where the highest concentrations of Christians and Muslims live together. She talks about her experiences, documented in her New York Times best selling book, "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam." April 19, 2012
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Gabriella Petrick '89
An alumna of Holy Cross, Gabriella Petrick '89 is associate professor at George Mason University and an expert on the history of industrial foods and food technology. Her talk traces the development of canned food and the processing of fresh vegetables through much of the 20th century and questions, "Can Industrial Food Be Ethical?" April 12, 2012
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Donna Winn '76
Past president and CEO of OFI Investments, Inc., a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Funds, Donna Winn '76 talks about perseverance in the face of adversity. She was a member of the first co-ed class to graduate Holy Cross, she became a pioneer in the male-dominated finance industry, she survived the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center, and she is battling ovarian cancer. Winn, a member of the Holy Cross Board of Trustees, gave the Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life on March 20, 2012.
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A renowned scholar of Holocaust literature and a lecturer at Yad Vashem, Alan Rosen gives a talk on poetry written during the Holocaust and after. Can it be considered a form of spiritual resistance? If so, what and how does it resist? "'The Words, Too, Will Nourish': Poetry and Resistance," explores the poetry of Avraham Sutzkever and others. Supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding, the lecture was given February 28, 2012.
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Theological ethicist Lisa Sowle Cahill, the J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College, talks about access to health care in the United States and globally, and explores the positions and priorities expressed by the U.S. Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Health Association, and Catholic voters. Her talk, titled "Catholic Social Teaching, Bioethics and Justice," was given February 2, 2012 and was one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity.
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The Contours of Catholic Life and Practice Today
Video is now available from the inaugural colloquium on Catholics and Cultures held at Holy Cross December 9, 2011. The Colloquium, which introduced the challenges and opportunities in the study of global Catholicism, included an introduction of the global initiative on Catholics and Cultures by Thomas M. Landy, director of the McFarland Center; a talk on Indian Catholicism by Rowena Robinson of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; a panel of Holy Cross seniors who share their lived experiences of global Catholicism; and a talk on "Reimagining Catholic Theology" by Rev. Thomas G. Casey, S.J., of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
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Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Chair Emerita of the Appreciation of Scripture at Boston University, talks about her latest book, Augustiine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism. Her talk, held November 16, 2011, was co-sponsored with the Worcester JCC and supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding, the Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts and the Jewish Book Council.
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An International Visiting Jesuit Scholar with the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture for the Fall 2011 semester, Rev. Francis Britto, S.J., draws connections between current trends in Christianity and the basic tenets of Hinduism in a talk titled, "Are We All Hindus Now?" Fr. Britto, a native of India, is a professor at Sophia University, Tokyo. This talk was held November 15, 2011.
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Associate professor of English at the University of Chicago, Lisa Ruddick talks about her current book project which makes the case that the ways we approach literature in academe can elicit or negate a feeling of aliveness. She spoke at Holy Cross on November 14, 2011
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Congressman Jim McGovern and Matthew Hoh
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Matthew Hoh, a former Foreign Service officer and former Marine Corps captain, discuss "Ten Years of War in Afghanistan: The Costs, Consequences and a Way Out." McGovern has been a leading critic of U.S. military policy in Afghanistan, coordinating bipartisan initiatives focused on the human and financial costs of the war, proposals for safely withdrawing U.S. forces from the country, and promoting a political solution for Afghanistan and the region. Hoh was the first U.S. official known to resign his post in protest over the Afghan war. Today, he is a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy. November 9, 2011
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Rev. Philip Endean, S.J.gives a lecture on "Ignatius Loyola, and Why It's Not Quite Enough to Do What Jesus Would Do." Tutor of theology at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, Fr. Endean suggests that knowledge of God is more than any encounter with Jesus Christ and that Ignatian spirituality calls on believers to continue where Jesus left off.
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Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT, Esther Duflo explains how randomized trials of strategies to address poverty yield proven outcomes that sometimes contradict anti-poverty policy and popular thinking. She is co-author of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. October 27, 2011
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Co-author of God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics, Monica Duffy Toft explains how — despite predictions for a secular society — modernization, democratization and globalization have actually increased religion's influence on global politics. Toft is associate professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs. She spoke at Holy Cross on October 18, 2011.
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Nir Eisikovits, who teaches legal and political philosophy at Suffolk University, gives a talk on Israel titled "Stuck: Why Israel is in so much trouble and how it can dig out." He is a senior fellow at the International Center for Conciliation and author of Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation. His talk at Holy Cross, held October 17, 2011, was supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding and co-sponsored with Peace and Conflict Studies.
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Author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery, E. Benjamin Skinner talks about the atrocities of human bondage and slave trafficking today in Haiti, South Africa, and other parts of the world. Skinner is a fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. He spoke at Holy Cross on October 5, 2011.
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The author of two books on Gandhi, Rev. George Pattery, S.J., talks of "Memory, Politics and Forgiveness: A Gandhian Perspective" on September 22, 2011. Pattery is a native of India and former Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in Calcutta and Bangladesh. He is an International Visiting Jesuit Scholar and teaching a course on "Gandhi and Religion" at Holy Cross for the Fall 2011 semester.
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In the Thomas More Lecture on Work, Faith and Civic Life, Maria Eugenia Ferré Rangel '89 explains how her family history and Holy Cross experience gave her the ethical foundation and business acumen to successfully lead Puerto Rico's largest daily newspaper, El Nuevo Dia, and to find ways to serve the greater good. September 8, 2011
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2010-2011
Diana Hayes — Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: My Journey to Womanism
Professor of systematic theology at Georgetown University, Diana Hayes talks about her experience as a black, Catholic womanist theologian. Her talk, April 26, 2011, is one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity and co-sponsored by Africana Studies and Women and Gender Studies. Supported by the Rehm Family Endowment.
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Mark Warren — Keynote for "Let Justice Roll Down" - A Conference on the Practice and Pedagogy of Organizing in the 21st Century
Mark Warren, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a sociologist concerned with the revitalization of American democratic and community life. He studies efforts to strengthen institutions that anchor inner city communities - churches, schools, and other community-based organizations - and to build broad-based alliances among these institutions and across race and social class. April 1, 2011
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Joanne Pierce, Edward Foley, John Baldovin — New Words for Worship: Coming Changes to the Catholic Liturgy
A panel of experts on liturgy — including Joanne Pierce, associate professor of religious studies at Holy Cross; Edward Foley, Capuchin, Duns Scotus Professor of Spirituality and professor of liturgy and music at the Catholic Theological Union; and Rev. John Baldovin, S.J., '69, professor of historical and liturgical theology at Boston College — discuss coming changes to the liturgy of all English-spoken Masses and the implications for clergy and all practicing Catholics. March 22, 2011
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James McCartin '96 — Spirituality and the Transformation of 20th-Century American Catholicism
James McCartin, an alumnus of Holy Cross and associate professor of history at Seton Hall University, explores the themes in his recent book Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics. March 21, 2011
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J. Matthew Ashley — Living with Hope in a Crucified World: Resurrection Faith, Ignatian Spirituality and Liberation Theology
Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, J. Matthew Ashley explores the impact of Ignatian spirituality on three 20th-century Jesuit theologians. His talk, March 16, 2011, was one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity.
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James Carroll — Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
Best-selling author and Boston Globe columnist James Carroll talks about his latest book, which offers a historical account of Jerusalem, a city at the crossroads of deep faith and violence. The lecture, given March 15, 2011, was presented with the Worcester JCC, Temple Sinai, Temple Emanuel and Congregation Beth Israel. It was supported by the Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts and the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish Christian Understanding.
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Alan Rosen — Killing Time, Saving Time: Defying the Holocaust by Counting the Days
Renowned Holocaust scholar and educator Alan Rosen explains how and why Holocaust victims in hiding and in ghettos would use both Gregorian and Jewish calendars to keep track of time. His lecture, on March 2, 2011, is supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish Christian Understanding.
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In Our Lifetimes: Environmental Change and Stewardship
This yearlong series encourages students to consider the greatest environmental challenges of our lifetimes and what we might have to change to counter them. Read more. Bill McKibben — Past the Tipping Point: The global fight for a stable climate
Sr. Elizabeth Johnson — An Ecological Inquiry: Jesus and the Cosmos
Steven Solomon — When the Well Runs Dry: Finding Solutions for the Freshwater Crisis
John Cannon and Katherine Kiel — Saving the Environment: What Might Have to Change at Holy Cross Kieran Suckling '88 — The Biodiversity Crisis: Why Driving Species Extinct Makes Us Less Human |
Bill McKibben, one of the world's leading environmental activists and the best-selling author of The End of Nature and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, speaks on the issue of climate change and the work of his organization 
Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, explores the traditional role of Jesus Christ as Savior of the human race and considers if his teachings can be applied to a more bio-centric or cosmos-centric theology. Supported by the 
Journalist and author of Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, Steven Solomon asserts that freshwater scarcity is one of the 21st century's decisive, looming challenges and is driving new political, economic and environmental realities across the globe. February 3, 2011
Holy Cross alumnus Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, talks about the extent of biodiversity loss in the U.S. and globally, and why the extinction crisis, though most often spoken of in ecological terms, is undermining our own humanity. February 15, 2011
Dennis Golden '63 — From NFL Prospect to University President
In the Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, Dennis Golden '63 talks about his path from Holy Cross student-athlete to president of Fontbonne University and offers advice for students exploring vocation. February 22, 2011
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Paul Starr — Moralities in Conflict: How Health Care Became Such a Hard Problem for America
Pulitzer and Bancroft prize-winning author Paul Starr, co-founder and editor of The American Prospect, explores why the American people are so bitterly divided on health care policy while other wealthy western democracies are not. February 22, 2011
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Rev. Lloyd Baugh, S.J. — Jesus De-constructed and Re-constructed: Political, Cultural and Personal Subtexts in the Gospel Films
Rev. Lloyd Baugh, S.J., the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture's International Jesuit Visiting Fellow for the spring 2011 semester, examines the Jesus film genre from late-19th century silent pictures to Mel Gibson's controversial Passion of the Christ to illustrate that the same Gospel scene can take on very different meanings, according to the subtexts at work in the films. February 10, 2011
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Nancy Sherman — The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds and Souls of Our Soldiers
University Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown, Nancy Sherman talks about the moral burdens borne by soldiers returning from war and suggests that feelings of guilt may actually be a therapeutic part of their re-integration in civilian life. Sherman, who is author of The Untold War, spoke at Holy Cross on November 18.
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Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., and Rev. James Corkery, S.J. — The Modern Papacy: Five-hundred years of change
Co-editors of the recent book, The Papacy since 1500: From Italian Prince to Universal Pastor, Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., professor of history at Holy Cross, and Rev. James Corkery, S.J., associate professor of theology at the Milltown Institute, Dublin, Ireland, talk on November 10, 2010 about the major changes in the Papacy over the last half-milliennium.
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Stanley Hauerwas — Sacrifice and the Sacrifices of War
Distinguished theologian and Christian ethicist Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University Divinity School, asserts that the greatest sacrifice of war may be sacrificing our unwillingness to kill. The talk was given as part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity on November 8, 2010.
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Steven Shapin — The Scientific Life: Moral Enterprise or Value Free?
Steven Shapin, the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, talks about his book The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation, and explains why personal qualities like virtue, trust, reliability and the familiarity continue to matter in science, perhaps more than ever. October 28, 2010
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Eugene Pogany — From Brother to Other and Back
Psychologist Eugene Pogany, author of In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaust, tells how the disparate experiences of his father and uncle during the Holocaust irreparably severed their twin bond. His lecture, held October 25, 2010, is supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish Christian Understanding.
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Florence Hsia — Saints and Mandarins: Science, religion and Jesuits in late imperial China
Florence Hsia, associate professor of the history of science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, talks about her book Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China as part of the Presidential Colloquia on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts, held September 30, 2010. Janine Shertzer, a physics professor at Holy Cross, will be the respondent.
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Rev. Jeffrey von Arx, S.J. — Two Cardinals: John Henry Newman, Henry Edward Manning and the Victorian Church
Rev. Jeffrey von Arx, S.J., president of Fairfield University and an expert in the field of 19th-century British history, commemorates the September 19 beatification of John Henry Newman with a talk on September 13, 2010 about Newman and his contemporary, and sometimes adversary, Henry Edward Manning.
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2009-2010
Biological Foundations of Morality? Neuroscience, Evolution and Morality
Video is now available from this popular two-day conference, held March 18-19, 2010, exploring the roles of emotion, intuition and reasoning in moral decision making and the implications for moral theology, philosophy and virtue ethics. Biological Foundations of Morality? Neuroscience, Evolution and Morality features some of the biggest names in brain science, including Michael Gazzaniga, Patrick Haggard, Marc Hauser, Joshua Greene and James Blair, along with esteemed philosophers and thinkers Robert Kane, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jeanette Kennett, Stephen Pope and Rachana Kamtekar. Read more about the conference here.
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Christian Smith — Understanding the Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
Christian Smith, director of the National Study of Youth and Religion, reports on the third wave of data collection of 18-23 year olds. This Deitchman Family Lecture on Religion and Modernity was held April 7, 2010.
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Patricia Omidian — Women in Afghanistan, From the Taliban Until Today
Civilian anthropologist Patricia Omidian, based in Pakistan and Afghanistan since 1997, speaks about the situation in Afghanistan duringt the Taliban and after spoke on April 12, 2010.
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Paula Newberg — Political Belief and Political Reconciliation: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Problem of the Taliban
Paula Newberg, director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and a former advisor to the United Nations, spoke on April 6, 2010.
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Dermot Quinn and Rev. Ian Boyd — Chesterton in America and at Holy Cross
Dermot Quinn and Rev. Ian Boyd, of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture at Seton Hall University, reflect on the British convert and writer's two American tours and his 1930 visit to Holy Cross. The event, sponsored with the G.K. Chesterton Society of Worcester, was held March 25, 2010.
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Rev. Sidney Griffith — Christians and Muslims Together: Lessons from Yesterday for Today
Rev. Sidney Griffith, professor and chair of the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of America, spoke on February 22, 2010.
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Mahmoud Ayoub — The Place of Revelation in Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Mahmoud Ayoub, professor of Islamic studies and Christian-Muslim relations at the Hartford Seminary and professor emeritus at Temple University, spoke on April 8, 2010.
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Trent Pomplun - Inter-Religious Dialogue in Tibet: The Example of Ippolito Desideri, S.J.
Trent Pomplun, associate professor of theology at Loyola University Maryland, talked about his book, Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet, as part of the Presidential Colloquia on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts, February 18, 2010.
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Peachy Myers, White House Liaison to the Corporation for National and Community Service, speaks about her calling to community service and legislative achievements, including the passage of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. The lecture, held January 28, 2010, was presented by the Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning.
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After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forwardThis yearlong series explored the lessons learned during the recent credit crisis and offered diverse perspectives on how to construct a new economy that is sustainable and just. Read more. U.S. healthcare and social policy expert, Jacob Hacker, the Stanley Resor professor of political science at Yale University, reported on "The Middle Class at Risk: The New Economic Security and What Can Be Done About It," October 7, 2009.
Caner Dagli, assistant professor in Religious Studies at Holy Cross, spoke about the principles of Islamic law and how they relate to and are interpreted in Muslim economics, October 15, 2009.
William D. Nordhaus, Sterling professor of economics at Yale University, is one of the main economists working on models that address the true cost of climate change. He talked about "The Challenge of Climate Change" on October 19, 2009.
David A. Spina '64, retired CEO and chairman of State Street Corp. and a Holy Cross trustee, talked about "Recasting Banks in 2009: An Insider's View" on November 3, 2009.
Aaron Levine, the Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics at Yeshiva University and a noted authority on Jewish commercial law, talked about "How to Prevent the Next Great Depression: A Jewish Law Pespective" on November 12, 2009. Daniel Barbezat, professor of economics at Amherst College, talked about behavioral economics and "Flourishing Economies: Supporting and Deepening Personal and Public Awareness" on November 17, 2009. Sr. Catherine Cowley, a former banker and now religious sister and associate director of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Public Life at Heythrop College, University of London, spoke of "Values in Economic Life" on February 16, 2010.
Ellen Ruppel Shell, professor of journalism and co-director of the Graduate Program in Science Journalism at Boston University, talked about her book Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture on February 25, 2010.
Jonathan Gruber, economics professor at MIT and one of the nation's leading health care economists, talked about "Reforming Health Care in the U.S.: What Now?" on March 11, 2010. |
Susannah Heschel - The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
Susannah Heschel, a scholar of Jewish-Christian relations and the history of anti-Semitism, and the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, talked about her recent book, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany, as part of the Kraft-Hiatt Program for Jewish-Christian Understanding, November 18, 2009.
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Peter C. Phan - Mission of the Church in the Asian Context
Peter C. Phan, the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University, spoke October 5, 2009 in a Deitchman Family Lecture on Religion and Modernity.
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Smita Lahiri - Mystical Transfers, Local and Global
Anthropologist and associate professor at Harvard University, Smita Lahiri discussed her research at Mt. Banahaw, a major center of folk-Catholic pilgrimage in the Philippines, as part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity, September 28, 2009.
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Paul Mariani - What Hopkins Can Teach Us
Noted poet, literary biographer and Boston College professor Paul Mariani talked about the life and work of Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Presidential Colloquium on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts, September 21, 2009.
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Rev. James Corkery, S.J. - Sent to the Frontiers: Jesuits, Alumni/ae and the Work of the Church
Fr. Corkery, an Irish Jesuit who participated in the General Congregation and helped draft some of its statements, discusses the larger context for the Congregation and its outcomes in the keynote speech of the Alumni/ae Colloquium, on September 26, 2009.
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Philanthropist and venture capital investor B.J. Cassin '55 gives the Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, September 24, 2009.
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2008-2009
Leading contemporary Irish writer Colm Tóibín reads from his new novel, Brooklyn, April 16, 2009
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"How Jesuitical Were the Jesuits? A brief encounter with the morality of the Jesuits," March 26, 2009
As part of the Presidential Colloquia on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts, Fr. Keenan, who holds the founder's chair in theology at Boston College, traces the history of Jesuit casuistry.
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Helen Whall, professor of English at Holy Cross, responds.
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"An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Darwin and Discovery," March 25, 2009
As part of the "Last" Lecture Series, Karen Ober, assistant professor of entomology and evolutionary biology, explains how tiny beetles kindled her passion for science.
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Chief Justice John T. Broderick, Jr., '69
The Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, March 23, 2009
Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, John T. Broderick, Jr., a member of the Holy Cross Class of 1969, shares lessons learned on his life's path.
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"Lessons from the Shoah: Why we teach the Holocaust at Holy Cross," March 17, 2009
With support from the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding, Daniel Bitran, associate professor of psychology, participated in an educators' conference and seminar at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in July 2008. Here, he talks about the life-changing experience and his redefined purpose.
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"The Religious Enlightenment," March 16, 2009
In a Deitchman Family Lecture on Religion and Modernity, David Sorkin, professor of history and Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggests that the Enlightenment, which gave birth to Modernity, should best be understood as a religious, not an anti-religious, project.
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"The Gospels of Judas, Mary and Thomas: The Good News About Marginalized Disciples in Early Christian Literature," March 12, 2009
Marvin Meyer is one of the foremost scholars on early Christianity and texts about Jesus outside the New Testament. He is Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California, where he is also director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute.
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Moral Responsibilities for the Legacies of War
Panel Discussion: U.S. Veterans Returning from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Student Panel: Where do we go from here? |
Moral Frameworks for Thinking About the Legacies of War
Agent Orange: Consciousness and Conscience
Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity, February 2, 2009
Vatican secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
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Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, October 2008
Paul LaCamera '64, general manager of the WBUR group, and a Holy Cross trustee, shares insights on his career, politics, faith and more.
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2007-2008
"Last" Lecture, April 2008
Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Dean of the Class of 2008, Professor Swigert uses her study of criminology as a focal point for a dialogue on core issues of meaning and morality.
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2005-2006
Craig-Ehrman Debate: Is There Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus?
March 28, 2006
William Lane Craig, Research Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology, and Bart D. Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, debate at Holy Cross.
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