Author Archives: Danielle Kane

Kelly Dawn Askin, senior legal officer at Open Society Justice Initiative, will give a lecture titled “Rape as a Weapon of War” on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library, Smith Hall, at the College of the Holy Cross. … Continue reading →

Recognized as one of the world’s most influential Muslim women, Dalia Mogahed will give a lecture on “Women After the Arab Spring Revolution: Rights and Religion,” Thursday, Feb. 21 at 4:30 p.m. in Rehm Library, Smith Hall at the College … Continue reading →

Robert P. George, considered one of America’s most influential Christian conservative thinkers, will give a lecture on “Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity,” Monday, Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library, Smith Hall at the College of the Holy … Continue reading →

Pericles Lewis, an expert on literary modernism at Yale University, will give a free, public talk titled “Burial of the Dead in Modern Fiction,” on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in Rehm Library, Smith Hall at the College of … Continue reading →

The College of the Holy Cross will hold a panel discussion on the current conflict between the Vatican and the leadership community for American nuns on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library, Smith Hall, at the … Continue reading →

Irish playwright, actor and politician Gerard Mannix Flynn will give a special performance of “James X,” his one-man play recounting the experience of children abused by church and civil authorities in Ireland, on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. in … Continue reading →

Esteemed medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, the Chancellor’s Professor at University of California at Berkeley, will give a lecture titled “A World Cut in Two: Global Justice and the Traffic in Humans for Organs” on Monday, Sept. 24 at 4:30 p.m. … Continue reading →

Harvard Law professor and author Randall Kennedy will review the upcoming Supreme Court case on affirmative action, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, and its possible implications for college admissions programs in a lecture titled “The Supreme Court and … Continue reading →

Gabriella Petrick ’89, associate professor of nutrition, food studies and history at George Mason University, will return to her alma mater, the College of the Holy Cross, to give a lecture titled, “Can Industrial Food Be Ethical? A Historical Perspective,” … Continue reading →

Donna Winn ’76, a veteran of the financial industry, will deliver the Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life on Tuesday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library, Smith Hall at the College of the Holy … Continue reading →

Scott Russell Sanders, acclaimed author of more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, will give the annual Vocation of the Writer address on Thursday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library, Smith Hall, at the College of … Continue reading →

Renowned historians, sociologists and activists including William Julius Wilson, Maurice Isserman, Peter Dreier, David O’Brien, Bruce Western, Annette Lareau and others will speak at a two-day conference on poverty March 22-23, 2012, organized by the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. … Continue reading →

Alan Rosen, a renowned scholar of Holocaust literature, will give a lecture titled “The Words, Too, Will Nourish: Poetry and Resistance” on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The … Continue reading →

Lisa Sowle Cahill, the J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College, will give a lecture titled “Catholic Social Teaching, Bioethics and Justice” on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library, Smith Hall, at the College of … Continue reading →

Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), will talk about her travels and research in North Africa and Central Asia, where high concentrations … Continue reading →

Paula Fredriksen, considered one of the world’s foremost scholars on Saint Augustine, will speak about her most recent book, Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism at the College of the Holy Cross, on Wednesday, Nov. … Continue reading →