Boston College Front Row

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,

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.

Activist Bill McKibben, author of one of the first books about climate change written for a general audience, The End of Nature (Anchor, 1989), talks about the challenges presented by global warming and the radical environmental message of the Gospels.

Since its founding, America has been compared to Rome, says Cullen Murphy.

In 1827 the term "medieval" was first coined to refer to the time period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.

Paul Zak is a founder of neuroeconomics, a field that investigates the relationship between neurological activity and economic behavior.

Novelist Anne Enright opens her talk by expressing ambivalence about being characterized as an Irish writer and as a woman writer.

John E. Ebel, director of the Weston Observatory and a professor of geophysics, presents basic information about what an earthquake is and why quakes occur at particular locations.

Tessa Rajak, Horace W. Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies and Classics at Yale University, discusses the Septuagint, the Hebrew Bible’s earliest extant translation, compiled from numerous Greek translations made by Hellenistic Jews.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of Maryland and oldest daughter of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy, is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Public Policy.

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."

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 in Basra.

Novelist Anne Enright opens her talk by expressing ambivalence about being characterized as an Irish writer and as a woman writer.

The Neuroeconomics of Trust

Jeannette Walls grew up in poverty and went on to have a successful career as a magazine and television reporter.

Former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic nominee for president Michael Dukakis doesn't mince words in talking about health care reform.

In a panel discussion at the June 2007 reunion, five members of the Golden Anniversary Class of '57 talked about their favorite professors, commuting to school, the dating scene, athletics, and attending college during the 1950s.

Boston College men's ice hockey coach Jerry York talks about being appointed the youngest college coach in the USA at age 26 and his current status as the winningest coach in Division I hockey.

While studying student reaction to an experimental science curriculum, the Lynch School's Michael Barnett found that students who had viewed a science fiction movie were more influenced by it than by the material in the curriculum.

NBC newsman Tim Russert moderated a discussion on April 23 in Conte Forum with presidential candidates Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) entitled "Catholic Senators and Presidential Candidates: Their Faith and Public Policy."