Clough Grad Workshops

Current Workshops

September 28
Elise Largesse,
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“The Light That Lifts Your Soul:” Nantucket as the Elite’s Favorite (Transcendent) Product

Ocotober 5
Magnus Ferguson,
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Accountability for Forward-Looking Responsibilities

October 12
No meeting

Ocotber 19
Robin Landrith,
Theology
Three Proposals on Cognition and the Holy Spirit in the Analogy of Personhood

October 26
Isaiah Sterrett,
History
“Never Born to be Confined:” Introduction to Children, the Home, and Public Life in the Nineteenth-Century North

November 2
Ilaria D'Angelis,
Economics
Are We There? The Search for Amenities and the Early-Career Gender Wage Gap Among Highly Educated Workers

November 9
Yiyang Zhuge,
Political Science
Enlightenment Conceptions of Retributive Punishment

November 16
Megan Crotty,
English
“The Truest Illusion of Reality:” Cosmopolitan Melodrama in Anna Burns’s Milkman and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

November 23
Luca Gemmi,DzԴdz
Rational Overoptimism and Moral Hazard in Credit Booms

November 30
Will Stratford,
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Indigenous or Internationalist? The Marxism of Victor Berger at the Zenith of Second International Socialism

December 7
Deniz Uyan,
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To Be 'a Pro-Arab Arab': The Role of Civil Rights Identity Elites in Translating Arab Political Identity as Racial

December 14
Nicholas Hayes-Mota, Theology
Machiavellian, or “Practical Thomist”? Saul Alinsky as an Exemplar of Common Good Politics

January 25
Hilary Nwainya,
Theology
Addressing the Need for Recognition: A Fundamental and Constitutive Point of Departure for Catholic Social Ethics

February 1
Matthew Gannon,
English
Wyndham Lewis's Undead Art Fetish

February 8
Jared Highlen,
Philosophy
"No One Was As Great As Abraham": Exemplarity and the Failure of Hermeneutical Refiguration in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

February 15
Nicholas Anderson,
Political Science
The Politics of Progress: Kant and the Possibility of a Moral Liberalism

February 22
Valeria Ferraro,
Economics
Media Focus, Executive Turnover, and Female Leadership

March 1
Chanelle Robinson,
Theology
Woman Unmoved: A Decolonial Womanist Reflection on Viola Desmond and Embodied Resistance

March 8
NO WORKSHOP

March 15
Kevin March,
History
Breaking Dawn: King Philip's War in Maine and the Rise of the Wabanaki Confederacy, 1675-1713

March 22
Annika Rieger,
Sociology
Constrained but not Contained: How National Context Shapes Corporate Emissions

March 29
Matthew Mersky,
English
And a Flash Rives its Centre: Joyce and the Historical Form of Ecology

April 5
Catalina Rey-Guerra,
Psychology
Women's Political Representation as a Driver of Early Childhood Development

April 12
Alexey Khazanov,
Economics
Local Government Policies and the US Business Cycle

April 19
NO WORKSHOP

April 26
John Carter,
Theology
The Conscience and the Moral Act

May 3
Rachael Young,
History
“Art and Argument Go Hand in Hand": Street Art as Activism in 1980s England and Northern Ireland

By invitation only. For details, email clough.center@bc.edu.

Past Workshops