This symposium marks the translation and publication of the new book Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories, edited and co-translated by Professor of Russian

Caring for People is a Global Responsibility

Apr 26th, 2012 1h 1m

Delano Lewis, former ambassador to South Africa from 1999 to 2001, delivers the Graduate School of Social Work's Distinguished Speakers Lecture. Lewis is introduced by Ruth McRoy, the Donahue and DeFelice Endowed Professor in the Graduate Schoo

Nostalgia, Ostalgia, and Memory Stick

Oct 13th, 2011 55m 33s

Croatian-born author Dubravka Ugresic talks about her life during communist rule in Eastern Europe.

Korean American Students and the Problem of Segregation

Oct 21st, 2010 52m 8s

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

Lebanon: Culture of Violence vs. Culture of Peace

Oct 21st, 2010 24m 10s

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.

Reading: Say You're One of Them: A Reading by Uwem Akpan, S.J.

Nov 13th, 2009 23m 10s

Uwem Akpan, S.J., author of the New York Times bestseller Say You're One of Them, reads from his book and discusses the intersection in his life between spirituality and art.

Say You're One of Them: A Reading by Uwem Akpan, S.J.

Nov 12th, 2009 23m 10s

Uwem Akpan, S.J., author of the New York Times bestseller Say You're One of Them, reads from his book and discusses the intersection in his life between spirituality and art.

Evangelical Spiritual Warfare and Vodou in Haiti

Oct 16th, 2009 42m 30s

Elizabeth McAlister is an associate professor of religion at Wesleyan University. She discusses the conceptual and on-the-ground relationship between U.S. evangelicals and Haitian evangelicals.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Oct 14th, 2009 52m 15s

Chinese-American author, feminist, and peace activist Maxine Hong Kingston writes both fiction and nonfiction about the immigrant experience. The Woman Warrior (1976) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction. In this Lo

The Ethics of Intervention

Mar 31st, 2009 1h 20m

Nicholas Burns '78, professor in the practice of diplomacy and international politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, briefly reflects on his time as a student at Boston College before delivering a lecture on genoc

The New Demography: The Fourth Chapter in the Great American Story

Mar 27th, 2009 1h 41m

Jesse Trevino, former chief editorial writer for The Austin American-Statesman, discusses the role future generations of Hispanics will play in America's development.

World Trade and Justice for the Poor:Impact of the Global Talks Breakdown

Sep 24th, 2008 1h 20m

Panelists present three perspectives on the World Trade Organization's apparent failure to achieve agreement at last summer's Doha Round. They focus on the implications for the poor in developing countries. The speakers are James Anderson, who

Higher Education Recruitment Consortium's Diversity Roundtable

Feb 27th, 2008 1h 11m

Nydia Gonzalez, chief diversity officer at Yale University, presents a lecture on diversity in the university setting at a meeting of the New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium, which took place at Boston College.

Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present

Nov 5th, 2007 1h 25m

When asked by a publisher to write a book about the effect of the U.S. occupation on Iraqi women, Nadje Al-Ali says she wanted to provide a more nuanced picture than the stereotype of "just another Muslim country oppressing its women."

The Humanitarian Crisis: Status of Healthcare in Iraq Today

Oct 25th, 2007 1h 27m

Dahlia Wasfi, MD, was born in the United States to an Iraqi father and Jewish mother. Although she was educated in this country, she frequently visited extended family in Iraq, most recently during the spring of 2006 when she spent three months

Believing in the Global South

Feb 23rd, 2007 48m 13s

The social, economic, and cultural disparities between North America and Europe, on one hand, and the global south Africa, south Asia, and Latin America help explain different approaches to scripture and ritual, according to Philip Jenkins,

The Policing of Race Mixing: When Racism Came Under the Sway of Biopower

Feb 9th, 2007 58m 34s

Robert Bernasconi, the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, explores continental philosopher Michel Foucault's theories

Migration Fictions: Jamaican Culture and Globalization

Jan 31st, 2007 26m 13s

Rhonda Frederick, assistant professor of English, teaches courses in Caribbean and African American literature, with emphases on political and cultural themes, and women's writing. She is the author of "Colon Man a Come": Mythographies of Panam

Class, Poverty and Shame

Oct 18th, 2006 53m 46s

Tommie Shelby, Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, speaks on how class differences between African Americans make it difficult to build black solidarity and a progressi

Jewish Writers in Latin America

Apr 4th, 2006 1h 4m

Dalia Feldman discusses how Jewish writers in Latin America, including Margo Glantz, Victor Perera, Moacyr Scliar, Ilan Stavans, and Jacobo Timerman, understand their identities as Jews and recent immigrants, and how that understanding is manif

Piecing Together Our History

Mar 31st, 2006 1h 2m

Gary Okihiro gives the keynote speech during the opening ceremonies of Boston College's Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Okihiro is the director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and a professor of international and public

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