Boston College Front Row

Richard Blake, on Gotham, as imagined by Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee.

Speaker: Richard A. Blake, SJ

Date: February 17, 2006

Length: 43:53

Gareth Cook, science journalist for the Boston Globe, presents a lecture on the complex relationship between science and politics in the stem cell debate. Cook was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for his investigation of stem cell research and its scientific, social, and ethical ramifications.

Cook is introduced by Kevin Bedell, chairman of the physics department and Rourke Professor of Physics at Boston College.

Speaker: Gareth Cook

Date: February 8, 2006

Length: 38:35

Photojournalist Carol Guzy, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, presents From Despair to Hope, a lecture and slideshow of her photographs, including award-winning images from Kosovo and Haiti. Guzy has worked as a photographer at the Washington Post since 1988 and has been named White House Press Photographers Association Photographer of the Year eight times.

Guzy is introduced by Robert Sherwood, Boston Colleges dean for student development.

Speaker: Carol Guzy

Date: February 7, 2006

Length: 1:08:57

Paul L. Locatelli, SJ, is the president of Santa Clara University and the author of For One World With One Justice: Education for Globalization, which appeared in the May 2002 issue of America Magazine, and Globalizing the World: Linking Integration and Solidarity, which appeared in the Fall 2002 issue of Explore magazine.

Locatelli is introduced by David McMenamin, adjunct associate professor in the philosophy department. McMenamin also serves as director of the PULSE Program and coordinator for the Social Justice Program in the Universitys Office of Mission and Ministry.

Speaker: Paul L. Locatelli, SJ

Date: February 2, 2006

Length: 46:09

Stanley Hauerwas, the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Duke University Divinity School, presents the Candlemas Lecture for the Lowell Humanities Series, a tribute to theologian David Burrell, CSC. In 2001, Hauerwas was named Americas Best Theologian by Time magazine and appointed to give the distinguished Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. These lectures are collected in his latest book, With the Grain of the Universe: The Churchs Witness and Natural Theology (Brazos, 2001).

Hauerwas is introduced by Lisa Sowle Cahill, the J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology.

Speaker: Stanley Hauerwas

Date: February 2, 2006

Length: 59:46

Chiara Frenquellucci, preceptor in Romance languages and literatures at Harvard University, presents an analysis and reading of the ninth canto of Dantes Purgatorio. Frenquelluccis commentary is in English; the reading from the Comedy is in Italian.

This program is part of an ongoing public reading of the Divine Comedy organized by the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Center for Italian Culture in Newton, Massachusetts.

Frenquellucci is introduced by Laurie Shepard, associate professor of Italian in the Romance languages and literatures department of Boston College.

Speaker: Chiara Frenquellucci

Date: January 30, 2006

Length: 39:50

Michael Dukakis, former governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate, is professor of political science at Northeastern University. He presents a lecture on his experience in politics and the future of the Democratic Party, with special focus on the place of grassroots organizing and youth involvement in the political arena.

Dukakis is introduced by Justin Galacki 06, president of the College Democrats of Boston College.

Speaker: Michael Dukakis

Date: December 5, 2005

Length: 1:34:48

Adam Hochschild presents Twelve Men in a Printing Shop, May 22, 1787: A Great Human Rights Movement is Born, a lecture on the birth of British abolitionism. This is the subject of his newest book, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empires Slaves (Houghton Mifflin: 2005). Hochschild teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of five other books, including King Leopolds Ghost, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin.

Hochschild is introduced by Prof. David Northrup, a member of the history faculty at Boston College.

Speaker: Adam Hochschild

Date: December 1, 2005

Length: 1:14:46

Poet Paul Mariani and illustrator Barry Moser talk about their artistic collaborations.

Speakers: Paul Mariani and Barry Moser

Date: September 27, 2005

Length: 53:33

Alan Wolfe on how America has lost, and can regain, its sense of purpose.

Speaker: Alan Wolfe

Date: May 12, 2005

Length: 38:20