Boston College Front Row

Narayana Kocherlakota, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, delivers the Dorothy Margaret Rose Knight Economic Lecture Keynote Address.

Narayana Kocherlakota, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, delivers the Dorothy Margaret Rose Knight Economic Lecture Keynote Address.

Jacqueline V. Lerner, professor of applied developmental and educational psychology, and Joseph M. O’Keefe, S.J., professor of educational leadership, present their research on youth character and faith development.

Jacqueline V. Lerner, professor of applied developmental and educational psychology, and Joseph M. O’Keefe, S.J., professor of educational leadership, present their research on youth character and faith development.

Students selected by their professors at some two dozen Boston-area colleges and universities read from their own poetry at the annual intercollegiate poetry event, hosted by Boston College.

Students selected by their professors at some two dozen Boston-area colleges and universities read from their own poetry at the annual intercollegiate poetry event, hosted by Boston College. This year's keynote speaker is Elizabeth “Betsy” Sholl, poet laureate of the State of Maine from 2006 to 2011 and author of seven collections of poetry

Richard Lansing, professor emeritus of Italian studies and comparative literature at Brandeis University, offers this talk as part of an ongoing series on Dante's minor works.

Bruno Baretto Gomide, professor of Russian literature at the University of São Paolo, talks about the reception of Russian novels in Brazil. He is introduced by Boston College Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer.

Christian M. Rutishauser, S.J., Provincial of the Swiss Jesuits, delivers the Third Annual John Paul II Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations. Rutishauser, who lectures on Jewish studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus in Munich, is a member of the Commission for Jewish-Christian Relations of the Swiss and German Bishops Conference and Vatican delegate at the International Liason Committee for the Relations with the Jews.

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. Inaugurated in 1997, the Michael B. Kreps Memorial Readings feature Russian émigré authors from around the world.

Stephen Drury, artistic director of the Callithumpian Consort, delivers this lecture/performance, titled “John Cage and the Flowering of the American Experimental Tradition.

Jonathan Ben-Dov, the George and Florence Wise Chair of Judaism in the Ancient World at the University of Haifa, explores the reinterpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's monuments from Lebanon as a representation of the myth of the Watchers.

Michael Addis, professor of psychology at Clark University, challenges male students to focus on the flexibility of the meaning of masculinity rather than the limitations of it. The event is part of Love Your Body Week, programming dedicated to promoting healthy body image on the Boston College campus. The week is hosted every fall semester by the Women's Resource Center.

Maureen McCausland ’72, M.S. ’77, senior nursing administrator at MedStar Health, provides an overview of how large health care systems balance attention to patients with a continuously evolving business landscape. She also talks about what nurses, especially those who care for patients, can do to usher in this new era of health care.

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,” as part of the Lowell Humanities Series.

Bill Keller, former executive editor of the New York Times, delivers the keynote address for “The Future of Journalism: International Reporting and the Public Good,” a symposium sponsored by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy.

Environmentalist Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy, talks about climate change, alternative energy, and the need for more localized economies.

Dante scholar Todd Boli presents the first in a new series of lectures dedicated to the life and work of Dante Alighieri.

Massachusetts Secretary of Education Matthew H. Malone, M.Ed '95, Ph.D. '02, delivers the keynote address, titled “School Reform and the Future of Education in Massachusetts,” at the Lynch School of Education's fall symposium. Following his talk, he joins a panel discussion with Mary Walsh, the Daniel E. Kearns Professor in Urban Education and Innovative Leadership; Patrick McQuillan, associate professor and director of curriculum at the Lynch Leadership Academy; and Laurie Johnson, associate professor at the Lynch School.

Arthur Levine is president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and president emeritus of Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the author or co-author of nine books on American education, including Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today’s College Student, his third study of a generation of college students since 1980.