Boston College Front Row

Lectura Dantis, an ongoing public reading of Dantes Divine Comedy, presents "Paradiso 14" with Adoyo Owuor, teaching fellow in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. The presentation of the text is in English, and the reading in Italian.

Nancy Abelmann, the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, talks about her book, The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problem of Segregation, an ethnographic study of the tensions between the ideals of higher education and the experiences of Korean American undergraduates at the University of Illinois.

Nancy Abelmann, the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, talks about her book, The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problem of Segregation, an ethnographic study of the tensions between the ideals of higher education and the experiences of Korean American undergraduates at the University of Illinois.

Samy Gemayel, one of the youngest members of the Lebanese parliament, talks about his native country and the sacrifices its people and allies have made for its stability.

Samy Gemayel, one of the youngest members of the Lebanese parliament, talks about his native country and the sacrifices its people and allies have made for its stability.

Richard Grayson, senior lecturer in British and Irish Politics at Goldsmith, University of London, discusses how a civil war between Unionists and Nationalists over home rule in Ireland was averted when men from both factions enlisted to fight together in the British armed forces during World War I.

Richard Grayson, senior lecturer in British and Irish Politics at Goldsmith, University of London, discusses how a civil war between Unionists and Nationalists over home rule in Ireland was averted when men from both factions enlisted to fight together in the British armed forces during World War I.

Jane Brox, award-winning author Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family, reads from her new book Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light. Brox traces the history and importance of man-made light from the time cave artists used limestone and tallow lamps, through today.

Jane Brox, award-winning author Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family, reads from her new book Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light. Brox traces the history and importance of man-made light from the time cave artists used limestone and tallow lamps, through today.

"There have been more prosecutions for leaks in the first two years of the Obama administration than there have been in all previous presidencies combined," says Gabriel Schoenfeld, author of the recent Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law. While the Constitution protects freedom of speech and of the press, Schoenfeld argues, transparency sometimes conflicts with the Constitutional expectation that government "provide for our common defense."