Boston College

Boston College
Boston, MA
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Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and Feeling Good
Jonathan Balcombe
April 24, 2006
00:57:48
Jonathan Balcombe, an expert in animal behavior, discusses animals that seem to demonstrate pleasure, and pleasure's theoretical origins in evolution.
Boxers and Bluesmen: Revivalists from the Rust Belt
Carlo Rotella
November 12, 2002
01:05:49
Boston College English professor Carlo Rotella discusses his book Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt, an exploration of cultural change in the working-class heart of the northeast and midwest.
T. Anthony Perry: Erotic Spirituality and the Book of Jonah
T. Anthony Perry
April 19, 2007
01:03:23
According to T. Anthony Perry, a literary scholar who has taught at both the University of Connecticut and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, there is no biblical book that has been so maligned and so poorly understood and so viciously used as the Book of Jonah.
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Alexis Dudden: Japan's Colonization of Korea
Alexis Dudden
February 7, 2005
01:04:39
Alexis Dudden is a professor specializing in modern Korean and Japanese history at Connecticut College. This talk is drawn from her book Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power.
Homosexuality in a Catholic Context
Andrew Sullivan
April 28, 2003
01:44:22
Authors Andrew Sullivan and David Morrison discuss homosexuality in Catholic culture. Sullivan argues that there is no scriptural substantiation for the Church's stance against homosexuality, while Morrison promotes chastity for those who are attracted to persons of the same sex.
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Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage
Phoebe Eng
March 30, 2007
00:44:57
Phoebe Eng relates stories about crossing cultural borders, discipline borders, and borders across generations.
Dante's Purgatorio: Canto XIV
Maria Esposito Frank
September 25, 2006
01:13:18
Maria Esposito Frank, chair of the department of modern language and cultures at the University of Hartford, presents an analysis and reading of the 14th canto of Dante's Purgatorio.