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The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture introduces podcasts and streaming media of select programs online, bringing the discussion of meaning, morality, and mutual obligation to a new, global forum. Click on the links below to either listen online or download the audio podcast to your iTunes account. Be sure to check back often for new media.
After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward
Jacob Hacker
U.S. healthcare and social policy expert, Jacob Hacker, the Stanley Resor professor of political science at Yale University, reports on "The Middle Class at Risk: The New Economic Security and What Can Be Done About It," to open the yearlong economic series After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward, October 7, 2009.
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Caner Dagli
Caner Dagli, assistant professor in Religious Studies at Holy Cross, speaks about the principles of Islamic law and how they relate to and are interpreted in Muslim economics, October 15, 2009.
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William D. Nordhaus
William D. Nordhaus, Sterling professor of economics at Yale University, is one of the main economists working on models that address the true cost of climate change. He talked about "The Challenge of Climate Change" as part of the economic series, After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward, on October 19, 2009.
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David A. Spina '64
David A. Spina '64, retired CEO and chairman of State Street Corp. and a Holy Cross trustee, talks about "Recasting Banks in 2009: An Insider's View" as part of the economic series, After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward, on November 3, 2009.
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Aaron Levine
Aaron Levine, the Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics at Yeshiva University and a noted authority on Jewish commercial law, talks about "How to Prevent the Next Great Depression: A Jewish Law Pespective" as part of the economic series, After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward, on November 12, 2009.
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Daniel Barbezat
Daniel Barbezat, professor of economics at Amherst College, talks about behavioral economics and "Flourishing Economies: Supporting and Deepening Personal and Public Awareness" as part of the economic series, After the Fall: Capitalism and a just way forward, on November 17, 2009.
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Susannah Heschel
Susannah Heschel, a scholar of Jewish-Christian relations and the history of anti-Semitism, and the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, talks about her recent book, "The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany," as part of the Kraft-Hiatt Program for Jewish-Christian Understanding., November 18, 2009.
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Peter C. Phan
Peter C. Phan, the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University, discusses the "Mission of the Church in the Asian Context" as part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity, October 5, 2009.
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Smita Lahiri
Anthropologist and associate professor at Harvard University, Smita Lahiri discusses "Mystical Transfers, Local and Global" discovered during her research at Mt. Banahaw, a major center of folk-Catholic pilgrimage in the Philippines, as part of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity, September 28, 2009.
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Paul Mariani
Noted poet, literary biographer and Boston College professor Paul Mariani talks about the life and work of Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Presidential Colloquium on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts, September 21, 2009.
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Rev. James Corkery, S.J.
Fr. Corkery, an Irish Jesuit who participated in the General Congregation and helped draft some of its statements, discusses the larger context for the Congregation and its outcomes in the keynote speech of the Alumni/ae Colloquium, "Sent to the Frontiers: Jesuits, Alumni/ae and the Work of the Church," on September 26, 2009.
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B.J. Cassin '55
Philanthropist and venture capital investor B.J. Cassin '55 gives the Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, September 24, 2009.
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Colm Tóibín
Leading contemporary Irish writer Colm Tóibín reads from his new novel, Brooklyn, April 16, 2009
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Rev. James Keenan, S.J.
How Jesuitical Were the Jesuits? A brief encounter with the morality of the Jesuits, March 26, 2009
As part of the Presidential Colloquia on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts, Fr. Keenan, who holds the founder's chair in theology at Boston College, traces the history of Jesuit casuistry.
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Helen Whall, professor of English at Holy Cross, responds.
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Professor Karen Ober
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Darwin and Discovery, March 25, 2009
As part of the "Last" Lecture Series, Karen Ober, assistant professor of entomology and evolutionary biology, explains how tiny beetles kindled her passion for science.
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Chief Justice John T. Broderick, Jr., '69
The Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, March 23, 2009
Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, John T. Broderick, Jr., a member of the Holy Cross Class of 1969, shares lessons learned on his life's path.
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Professor Daniel Bitran
Lessons from the Shoah: Why we teach the Holocaust at Holy Cross, March 17, 2009
With support from the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding, Daniel Bitran, associate professor of psychology, participated in an educators' conference and seminar at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in July 2008. Here, he talks about the life-changing experience and his redefined purpose.
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David Sorkin
The Religious Enlightenment, March 16, 2009
In a Deitchman Family Lecture on Religion and Modernity, David Sorkin, professor of history and Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggests that the Enlightenment, which gave birth to Modernity, should best be understood as a religious, not an anti-religious, project.
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Marvin Meyer
The Gospels of Judas, Mary and Thomas: The Good News About Marginalized Disciples in Early Christian Literature, March 12, 2009
Marvin Meyer is one of the foremost scholars on early Christianity and texts about Jesus outside the New Testament. He is Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies at Chapman University in Orange, California, where he is also director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute.
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Moral Responsibilities for the Legacies of War
Moral Frameworks for Thinking About the Legacies of War
Rev. Bryan Hehir
February 3, 2009
The Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Fr. Hehir explained Just War theory as it relates to post-war ethics.
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Agent Orange: Consciousness and Conscience
Professor Diane Fox
February 10, 2009
Visiting Professor of History and Anthropology, Diane Fox presented her work on Agent Orange.
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Panel Discussion: U.S. Veterans Returning from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Featuring: Brian P. Marx, Ph.D., National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Bryan P. Shea, a psychologist at St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center in New York who has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq as a military psychologist seeing soldiers in the field; and Bryan Adams, an Iraq War veteran and Purple Heart recipient who is the face of a public awareness campaign for PTSD.
February 17, 2009
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Student Panel: Where do we go from here?
Margaret A. Post, director of the Donelan Office for Community-Based Learning at Holy Cross, moderated a discussion with student panelists: Courtney Nicholson '10, Peter McMurray '09, Grace Campion '09, and Alec Scott '09.
February, 19, 2009
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Archbishop Agostino Marchetto
Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity, February 2, 2009
Vatican secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
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Paul La Camera, '64
Thomas More Lecture on Faith, Work and Civic Life, October 2008
Paul LaCamera ’64, general manager of the WBUR group, and a Holy Cross trustee, shares insights on his career, politics, faith and more.
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Professor Victoria Swigert
"Last Lecture," April 2008
Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Dean of the Class of 2008, Professor Swigert uses her study of criminology as a focal point for a dialogue on core issues of meaning and morality.
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