Literature, Art, and Cultural Studies
by Boston College
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A selection of lectures, interviews, readings, concerts, and performances from Boston College.
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CleanThe Russian Novel in Brazil | Bruno Baretto Gomide, professor of Russian literature at the University of São Paolo, talks about the reception of Russian novels in Brazil. | 2/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | CleanVideoThe Russian Novel in Brazil | Bruno Baretto Gomide, professor of Russian literature at the University of São Paolo, talks about the reception of Russian novels in Brazil. | 2/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 2014 Michael B. Kreps Memorial Reading in Russian Émigré Literature | Three contemporary Russian émigré authors, Evgeny Bukhin, Olga Simonova-Partan, and Alexei Tsvetkov, read from their works. The event, in Russian, is moderated by Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer. | 2/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | CleanVideoThe 2014 Michael B. Kreps Memorial Reading in Russian Émigré Literature | Three contemporary Russian émigré authors, Evgeny Bukhin, Olga Simonova-Partan, and Alexei Tsvetkov, read from their works. The event, in Russian, is moderated by Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer. | 2/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHeather S. Nathans: Seeing Ourselves Through Others’ Eyes | Heather S. Nathans, chair of the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts University, delivers this lecture, titled “Seeing Ourselves Through Others’ Eyes: Struggling with Stereotypes on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage”. | 10/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | CleanVideoHeather S. Nathans: Seeing Ourselves Through Others’ Eyes | Heather S. Nathans, chair of the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts University, delivers this lecture, titled “Seeing Ourselves Through Others’ Eyes: Struggling with Stereotypes on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage”. | 10/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | CleanVideoLife of Dante | Dante scholar Todd Boli presents the first in a new series of lectures dedicated to the life and work of Dante Alighieri. | 10/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLife of Dante | Dante scholar Todd Boli presents the first in a new series of lectures dedicated to the life and work of Dante Alighieri. | 10/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLectura Dantis: Paradiso 24 | Lectura Dantis, an ongoing public reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, presents "Paradiso 24" with Chris Constas, adjunct associate professor in the Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Boston College. | 3/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | CleanVideoLectura Dantis: Paradiso 24 | Lectura Dantis, an ongoing public reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, presents "Paradiso 24" with Chris Constas, adjunct associate professor in the Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Boston College. | 3/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEarl Lovelace Reads from "Is Just a Movie" | Novelist and playwright Earl Lovelace reads from his novel, Is Just A Movie. His published works include While Gods Are Falling; The Dragon Can't Dance; and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. | 3/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | CleanVideoEarl Lovelace Reads from "Is Just a Movie" | Novelist and playwright Earl Lovelace reads from his novel, Is Just A Movie. His published works include While Gods Are Falling; The Dragon Can't Dance; and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. | 3/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLectura Dantis: Paradiso 23 | Lectura Dantis, an ongoing public reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, presents "Paradiso 23" with Rachel Jacoff, professor emerita of Italian at Wellesley College. The presentation of the text is in English, and the reading in Italian. | 2/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | CleanVideoLectura Dantis: Paradiso 23 | Lectura Dantis, an ongoing public reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, presents "Paradiso 23" with Rachel Jacoff, professor emerita of Italian at Wellesley College. The presentation of the text is in English, and the reading in Italian. | 2/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Poets and Novelists Came to Comfort the Faithful and Strengthen Doubters | Alan Jacobs, the Clyde S. Kilby Chair Professor of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, talks about the role of literature in sustaining religious belief. Judith Wilt, the Newton College Alumnae Professor Emerita, provides a response. | 11/16/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | CleanVideoHow Poets and Novelists Came to Comfort the Faithful and Strengthen Doubters | Alan Jacobs, the Clyde S. Kilby Chair Professor of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, talks about the role of literature in sustaining religious belief. Judith Wilt, the Newton College Alumnae Professor Emerita, provides a response. | 11/16/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFaculty Poetry Reading: Andrew Sofer | Andrew Sofer, associate professor of English at Boston College, reads from WAVE, his recently published book of poems. Introduced by Maxim D. Shrayer, Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies. | 10/25/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | CleanVideoFaculty Poetry Reading: Andrew Sofer | Andrew Sofer, associate professor of English at Boston College, reads from WAVE, his recently published book of poems. Introduced by Maxim D. Shrayer, Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies. | 10/25/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReading: Say You're One of Them: A Reading by Uwem Akpan, S.J. | 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. | 11/12/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | CleanVideoSay You're One of Them: A Reading by Uwem Akpan, S.J. | 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. | 11/12/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReading: Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: A Reading by Maxim Shrayer | Maxim D. Shrayer, professor of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at Boston College and the winner of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, discusses his new collection of short stories Yom Kippur in Amsterdam. | 11/11/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | CleanVideoYom Kippur in Amsterdam: A Reading by Maxim Shrayer | Maxim D. Shrayer, professor of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at Boston College and the winner of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, discusses his new collection of short stories Yom Kippur in Amsterdam. | 11/11/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReading: Dave Fromm '93 | David Fromm '93 fondly recalls his undergraduate years at Boston College before reading two selections from Expatriot Games: My Season of Misadventures in Czech Semi-Pro Basketball (Skyhorse, 2008). | 10/27/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMaxine Hong Kingston | Chinese-American author, feminist, and peace activist Maxine Hong Kingston writes both fiction and nonfiction about the immigrant experience. | 10/14/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | CleanVideoMaxine Hong Kingston | Chinese-American author, feminist, and peace activist Maxine Hong Kingston writes both fiction and nonfiction about the immigrant experience. | 10/14/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReading: Lectura Dantis: Paradiso IV | Lectura Dantis, a public reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, presents Paradiso IV with Federica Anichini, assistant professor of Italian Language and Literature at Smith College. | 5/11/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | CleanVideoLectura Dantis: Paradiso IV | Lectura Dantis, a public reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, presents âÂÂParadiso IVâ with Federica Anichini, assistant professor of Italian Language and Literature at Smith College. | 5/11/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAuthor Meets Critics: The Future of Liberalism | Political science professor Alan Wolfe, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, discusses his most recent book, The Future of Liberalism (Knopf, 2009). | 4/29/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | CleanVideoAuthor Meets Critics: The Future of Liberalism | Political science professor Alan Wolfe, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, discusses his most recent book, The Future of Liberalism (Knopf, 2009). | 4/29/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReading: A Reading by Ha Jin | Author Ha Jin, professor of English at Boston University, reads from his most recently published novel, A Free Life (Pantheon, 2007). | 4/16/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | CleanVideoA Reading by Ha Jin | Author Ha Jin, professor of English at Boston University, reads from his most recently published novel, A Free Life (Pantheon, 2007). | 4/16/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJunot Diaz: A Reading | Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead, 2007) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008. | 10/8/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLectura Dantis: Purgatorio XXX | Professor Rachel Jacoff of Wellesley College reads, in Italian, from Purgatorio XXX, which she considers the structural and emotional centerof Dante's work. | 9/22/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGeraldine Brooks Reads from People of the Book | Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks says she developed a "lust for books" as a child growing up in Australia. In this Lowell Humanities Series lecture, she discusses her latest novel, People of the Book (Viking, 2008). | 2/10/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSocial Categories, Social Structure, and Ideology Critique | Are women more submissive than men? Is it more likely that blacks will commit crimes than members of other races? Sally Haslanger, a professor of philosophy at MIT. | 2/8/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWriters Among Us: James Smith | English professor James Smith study of the controversial workhouses where socially marginalized and so-called fallen women and girls were confined throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. | 2/5/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom 'Gothic' to 'Medieval': Revising Attitudes to the Middle Ages | In 1827 the term "medieval" was first coined to refer to the time period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. | 12/11/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReading: Anne Enright Reading from Her Novel | Novelist Anne Enright opens her talk by expressing ambivalence about being characterized as an Irish writer and as a woman writer. | 12/11/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReading: Anne Enright Reading from Her Novel | Novelist Anne Enright opens her talk by expressing ambivalence about being characterized as an Irish writer and as a woman writer. | 9/26/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBlasphemy in Ink: The Danish Mohammed Cartoons and Their Fallout | John McCoy, information and collections specialist at the McMullen Museum of Art, discusses the controversy surrounding publication in September 2005 by the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, of political cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. | 4/3/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Public Reading of the Divine Comedy: Purgatory 19 | Joan Ferrante, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, presents an analysis and reading of the 19th canto of Dante's "Purgatorio." Ferrante's commentary is in English; the reading from the Divine Comedy is in Italian. | 3/26/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDante's Purgatorio: Canto XVII | Trinity College's Dario Del Puppo discusses "Purgatorio XVII" and then reads the canto from Dante's Divine Comedy in Italian. | 1/29/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBringing Place to Life: Reading From and Talking About Baker Towers | In a Lowell Humanities Series lecture, Jennifer Haigh reads from Baker Towers, which won the 2006 Pen/L.L. Winship Award. | 11/29/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDante's Purgatorio: Canto XV | Emilio Mazzola, world language teacher at Newton North High School, presents an analysis and reading of the 15th canto of Dante's Purgatorio. | 10/23/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWriters Among Us: David Karp | David Karp, professor of sociology at Boston College, reads from and discusses his recent book, Is It Me or My Meds? Living with Antidepressants (Harvard University Press, 2006). | 10/20/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDante's Purgatorio: Canto XIV | Maria Esposito Frank, chair of the department of modern language and cultures at the University of Hartford | 9/25/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThinking Outside the Box: How Button Accordianist Joe Derrane Helped Redefine Irish America's Musical Identity Twice | Thinking Outside the Box: How Button Accordianist Joe Derrane Helped Redefine Irish America's Musical Identity Twice | 9/22/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGod Is Beautiful, and He Loves Beauty: Remembrance and Realization in the Islamic Humanities | James Morris, author and Boston College professor of theology, discusses the current McMullen Museum of Art exhibit Cosmophillia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen in the context of Islamic history, art, and literature. | 9/14/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReading: Writers Among Us: David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer | David Shrayer-Petrov reads from his new book Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories (Syracuse, 2006), which includes an autobiographical novel set in Stalinist Russia, Strange Danya Rayev. | 5/2/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDante's Purgatorio: Canto XII | Brian O'Connor, adjunct assistant professor of Italian at Boston College, presents an analysis and reading of the 12th canto of Dante's Purgatorio. | 4/24/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWriters Among Us: Thomas H. O'Connor | Boston historian Thomas H. O'Connor discusses his 16th book, The Athens of America: Boston, 1825-1845 (UMass, 2006) | 4/19/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWomen Writers and the Death of Rural Ireland | Clair Wills speaks on representations of domesticity and female sexuality in the fiction of Irish writers Mary Lavin and Maura Laverty. | 4/10/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReading: Big Story/Little Story: A Reading and Conversation with Mark Singer | Mark Singer reads from his new book Character Studies: Encounters with the Curiously Obsessed (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), a collection of nine profiles, from Donald Trump to card illusionist Ricky Jay. | 4/10/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJewish Writers in Latin America | Dalia Feldman discusses how Jewish writers in Latin America, including Margo Glantz, Victor Perera, Moacyr Scliar, Ilan Stavans, and Jacobo Timerman, | 4/4/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLawrence Joseph: Reading from His Poetry | Lawrence Joseph is a poet, critic, essayist, and professor of law at St. John's University. | 3/30/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPushkin and the Imperial Lyceum: A Sentimental Education for an Unsentimental Upbringing | David Bethea gives the annual Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture in European Literature, a discussion of the adolescence of Alexander Pushkin, the Russian poet and novelist. | 3/30/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Death Is For: Mortality in Philosophy, Art, Political Theory, and Religion | Joseph Bottum, Ph.D.'93, presents "What Death Is For: Mortality in Philosophy, Art, Political Theory, and Religion." | 3/27/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnn Patchett: Reading from Her Fiction | Ann Patchett reads from her novel-in-progress, Run, set in Boston. | 3/15/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDante's Purgatorio: Canto IX | Chiara Frenquellucci, preceptor in Romance languages and literatures at Harvard University, presents an analysis and reading of the ninth canto of Dante's Purgatorio. Frenquellucci's commentary is in English; the reading from the Comedy is in Italian. | 1/30/2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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