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We’ll Fight Again Tomorrow: Panel Discussion of Nir Eisikovits’s “A Theory of Truces”
Panelists Margaret Walker (philosophy professor, Marquette University), Ken Greenberg (history professor, Suffolk University), Lauren McGillicuddy (Ethics & Public Policy professor, Suffolk University), along with moderator Fred Marchant (English professor emeritus, Suffolk University) and respondent Nir Eisikovits (philosophy professor, Suffolk University), will discuss Eisikovits’s new book, A Theory of Truces. A reception will follow the panel. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome! Both the panel and reception will be held in Suffolk University's Sargent Hall at 120 Tremont Street in room…
Find out more »Transitional Justice Thinking: Tools or Principles?
Professor Margaret Walker of Marquette University speaks on transitional justice as a part of the celebration of A Theory of Truces by Suffolk University's Nir Eisikovits. This lecture will be held in Sargent Hall at Suffolk University, Room 385. The book is about truces. It focuses on unsatisfying, partial, 'patched up' ceasefire arrangements; it describes the risks we take and the opportunities we miss when we insist that the only acceptable way to end political violence is to end it comprehensively, once…
Find out more »Carmen Maria Machado
An Evening with Carmen Maria Machado at Suffolk University. 120 Tremont Street, 5th Floor, Blue Sky Lounge, This event is free and open to the public. Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and finalist for the National Book Award. The Chicago Tribune says Her Body and Other Parties is, “Simultaneously hot and chilling, these stories leave the reader enthralled and shaken,” and The New York Times says of the collection, “It’s a…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.