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JANUARY 18, 2024 VOL. 31 NO. 9

BC Receives $15M Grant from Lilly Endowment

Winter Coating

BY KATHLEEN SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER

Snow briefly adorned the “Holy Family” sculpture on the University’s Brighton Campus after a Nor’easter earlier this month, until rain and warm temperatures moved in—followed by a snowstorm on Tuesday. photo by lee pellegrini

Clough Center Brings Ph.D. Students to Mexico

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Thirteen Boston College doctoral students spent part of the semester break on a field visit to Mexico, through a Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy initiative that examines political geography and its impact on contemporary democracies.

During their stay from January 8-14, the BC contingent met with Mexican politicians, academics, journalists, religious, environmental activists, and nonprofit and community leaders to discuss an assortment of compelling political, social,

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and economic issues facing one of the world’s largest democracies. Their itinerary included stops at the Mexican Senate, a migrant shelter, the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe—the most visited pilgrimage site in the Americas—an anthropological museum, and the Chapultepec Castle.

The 13 comprise the 2023-2024 cohort of Clough Doctoral Fellows, a program that supports Ph.D. students whose research interests involve the past, present, or future of constitutional democracies worldwide. Fellows represent a diversity of disciplines in the social sciences (economics, political science, psychology, and sociology) and the humanities (classical studies, English, history, philosophy, and theology) and professional fields such as law. Their areas of research typically include state/ society relations; the relationship between political economy and democracy; practices and institutions of self-government; democratic norms and values; and the role of the media, arts, humanities, and/or religious traditions in democratic societies.

Each year, the Clough Center concentrates its programming around a theme, said Professor of Political Science Jonathan Laurence, the center’s director. The focus for 2023-2024, “Attachment to Place in a World of Nation-States,” considers the

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A $15 million Lilly Endowment Inc. grant to Boston College will support a project designed to empower ministerial organizations serving Hispanic Catholics to make a stronger impact on the communities they serve and better support the Catholic Church’s work, at a time when Hispanics constitute nearly half of all Catholics in the United States.

“Nuevo Momento: Leadership and Capacity Building for Ministerial Organizations Serving Hispanic Catholics” is a five-year, collaborative project that aims to strengthen capacity among ministerial organizations led by and serving Hispanic Catholics so they can advance their respective missions more effectively. Through mentorship, formation, leadership training, and a significant level of direct financial support, Nuevo Momento will work with 12 of these organizations to adopt best practices to be more effective in supporting Hispanic and non-Hispanic ecclesial leaders and their ministries. Boston College will work closely with the Leadership Roundtable and other partners to advance these goals.

Nuevo Momento will be directed by School of Theology and Ministry Associate Professor of Hispanic Ministry and Religious Education Hosffman Ospino, a

Hosffman Ospino will lead a project that seeks to empower organizations serving Hispanic Catholics. photo by lee pellegrini

nationally renowned researcher who has conducted groundbreaking studies on Catholic parishes with Hispanic ministry, Catholic schools serving Hispanic families, Hispanic teachers and leaders in Catholic schools, Hispanic organizations serving young Hispanics, and Hispanic ecclesial vocations. He also is co-principal investigator for “Haciendo Caminos: Theological Education for New Generations of U.S. Latino/a Catholics,” a Lilly Endowmentfunded initiative that involves a five-year longitudinal study on how U.S.-born and

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Crossing Boundaries From food security to housing to climate change, BC Law’s Katharine Young focuses on global human rights

BY JOHN SHAKESPEAR SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 established international human rights as we know them today, but 75 years—and nearly as many treaties—later, these rights have evolved, and so has the world. Boston College Law School Professor Katharine G. Young is a leading authority on how human rights are interpreted and administered across national boundaries in an era marked by globalization, political polariza-

tion, and climate change.

Young, who is a Dean’s Distinguished Scholar and the associate dean of faculty and global programs at BC Law, is an expert in the fields of international human rights law, comparative constitutional law, economic and social rights, and law and gender. She is the author of Constituting Economic and Social Rights and the editor or co-editor of two other books. Most recently, she was invited to co-edit The Oxford Handbook on Economic and Social Rights, which will feature chapters by 52

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Teaching for a ‘More Nuanced Understanding of Society’ BCSSW’s Williams developing virtual training program he believes can help Black youth with autism to discuss depression

BY JASON KORNWITZ SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

Boston College School of Social Work Assistant Professor Ed-Dee G. Williams is on a mission to improve the mental health of Black youth, with a particular emphasis on making it easier for them to seek help for depression.

He says his agenda addresses a thorny problem facing Black teens today: Although they are at higher risk for depression than their white counterparts, they are less likely to receive treatment for the condition.

“Ultimately, I want all Black youth to feel happy. I want them to have access to resources that help them get to a place of peace,” said Williams, who joined the faculty last July. “My more direct goal is to understand what depression looks like for Black youth and think about what kind of services we can build to provide support.”

Williams has teamed up with the software company SIMmersion to develop a virtual training program that will prepare Black youth with autism to discuss depression with their teachers and caregivers. The intervention, still in the early stages of development, will use video and speech recognition to make it seem as though users are having live conversations with teachers who are responding to their statements in real time. In actuality, users will be talking to simulations of teachers, played by actors, who have been given scripts to provide a variety of typical but unpredictable reactions to what they say.

At each turn in the conversation, users will select what to say from a list of premade options and receive feedback based on their choices. Each conversation will be unique, so users can practice honing their conversational skills until they feel ready to share their stories with adults who can help them.

“The hope is that when they finish the practice conversation, they have a better understanding of depression and feel more confident in having a real conversation with someone,” said Williams, whose brother has autism. “So when they do feel suicidal, they can talk to their teacher and then ask them to help have this conversation with their parents.”

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“Black men are severely underrepresented in the field of social work, both at the clinical and research levels. I hope that my work attracts more Black men and shows that there’s a space here for us.”

—Ed-Dee Williams Williams started the project in 2021 as a post-doc at the Level Up: Employment Simulation Skills Lab at the University of Michigan and designed the program with input from Black youth, who are currently pilot testing the intervention. He envisions a future in which the application, tentatively titled “Asking for Help,” is commercially available to schools, therapists, and parents, and hopes to adapt the app to meet the needs of other populations, too.

“Let’s start by focusing on Black autistic youth who are under-resourced and undersupported,” said Williams. “And then, after it works, we can think about how to tailor it to other communities.”

Asking for Help grew out of Williams’ field placement in Michigan’s M.S.W. program, when he served as a behavioral therapist for youths at a residential facility who experienced behavioral issues as a result of trauma or mental illness. He found that Black teens had been less likely than white teens to see therapists or take medication for their behavioral problems, more likely to be labeled as lost causes with no hope for reform, and more likely to be placed in a more restrictive setting at the facility.

Doing research for his dissertation, Williams discovered that many Black boys believe it is unmanly to ask for help and feel the need to rely on themselves to get better, with support from coaches, pastors, or online friends. Sometimes, they purposefully acted out in school to grab the attention of

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a teacher or guidance counselor. “‘I want help, but I don’t want anyone to know that I’m crying at night,’” said Williams, describing the boys’ thinking. “‘So I’m going to act out in school and hope that someone picks up on it.’”

Asking for Help is a direct response to his research findings, said Williams. “I

Swimming and Diving Team Suspension Extended for Spring Boston College has extended the suspension of its Swimming and Diving program through August of 2024, in light of a September hazing incident, recurring issues with the program, and a team culture that conflicts with University expectations of its student-athletes, according to William V. Campbell Director of Athletics Blake James.

In a January 4 letter to the team, James said the extended program suspension followed sanctions that were issued to a number of team members last month, including University suspension for the spring semester and University probation, and that the decision was based on an extensive investigation involving interviews with studentathletes, coaches, and staff.

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hope it improves comfort in having conversations. I hope it improves mental literacy and intention to seek help.”

Williams plans to incorporate discussions of race, gender, disabilities, and mental health into his courses at BC. He taught a master’s-level course last fall, Re-thinking Diversity: Systems of Oppression and Privilege, and expects to teach in the doctoral program, too.

He describes his teaching philosophy as collaborative. “I like to approach teaching with the idea that I’m not here to indoctrinate anybody. I’m not here to tell you what to think or what’s right or wrong. I’m bringing in new information that you can compare to what you know, what you’ve experienced, and get a more nuanced understanding of society as it is.”

He hopes that his research, combined with his teaching style, will drive more Black men to social work. About 22 percent of new social workers in the United States are Black, according to a survey of the 2019 workforce, but most of them are women.

“Black men are severely underrepresented in the field of social work, both at the clinical and research levels. I hope that my work attracts more Black men and shows that there’s a space here for us.”

Jason Kornwitz is a senior writer/editor in the Boston College School of Social Work For a longer version of this story, see bit.ly/ BCSSW-Williams-mental-health-Black-youth

culture in recent years, the University has decided to extend the suspension of the Swimming and Diving program until August 2024, including team practices and activities, competition, and all instruction with coaches,” the letter stated. “In addition, the Athletics Department will require Swimming and Diving student-athletes to participate in a hazing education program determined by the University.”

James said that he hopes these measures will enable the program to move forward in the 2024-2025 academic year.

“My hope is that the program will learn from this experience and commit itself to ensuring appropriate behavior, meeting University expectations, and creating a positive team culture that will position the program for success in the future.”

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Road Project Will Affect Hammond Pond Pkwy.

BY PHIL GLOUDEMANS STAFF WRITER

Construction has begun on a two-year, $11.3-million redesign of the Hammond Pond Parkway, a two-mile park roadway south of Boston College’s Main Campus that connects to Beacon Street, and serves as a link to many communities south and west of the University.

Undertaken by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), with support from Governor Maura Healey’s administration and the City of Newton, the project aims to enhance safety and accessibility for pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles between Beacon Street and Route 9, particularly to the Hammond Pond Reservation and the Webster Conservation Area.

During the lengthy construction period, commuters to BC using the Hammond Pond Parkway should expect delays, and are encouraged to seek alternate routes to the Main Campus.

During the first phase—Beacon Street to and under the Route 9 overpass—the current four-lane roadway will be reduced to two lanes, and the resulting space will allow the creation of a 12-foot shared-use path on the west side, and a four-foot walking path on the east side. Additional improvements include a 15-foot planting strip, new lighting, new curbing and crossings, guardrails, and signal design. The second phase, which has not yet been approved, will include the section from Route 9 to the Horace James Circle in Brookline.

The construction will have the greatest impact on BC facilities and trades employees working at 300 Hammond Pond Parkway, and may also affect users of the event and rehearsal space managed by the Robsham Theater Arts Center. BC representatives recently met with the DCR project management team and the general contractor, C. Naughton Corporation, to discuss the project’s schedule, establish methods of communication for project updates and for

Employees working at 300 Hammond Pond Parkway, and users of its event and rehearsal space, are likely to be affected by the two-year construction project. photo by peter julian

participation in construction meetings, as well as emphasize the critical importance of maintaining access to the 300 Hammond facility for BC employees, vendors, and visitors.

According to DCR Commissioner Brian Arrigo, the redesign is important to the regional transportation network.

“This project will make this busy road safer for the community, while increasing green space for recreation and promoting sustainable transportation,” he said. “It helps ensure our parkways provide neighborhoods with safe and accessible connections to economic centers and natural resources.”

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U.S.-reared Hispanic Catholics discern callings to ministry.

“There is great energy, wisdom, and experience in many ministerial organizations serving Hispanic Catholics,” noted Ospino.

“These organizations creatively advance initiatives that meet the spiritual, pastoral, and intellectual needs of Hispanic Catholics. They are true gifts to the Church in the United States. Yet, many are structurally vulnerable, lacking formal fundraising strategies, stable financial operations, and clear leadership succession plans.”

Nuevo Momento seeks to affirm the strengths of these groups and work with them to develop pathways to build organizational capacity, expand outreach and impact, and better serve their constituents— who represent the largest growing segment of U.S. Catholicism.

“Boston College is profoundly grateful to Lilly Endowment for its generous sup-

Nuevo Momento, says Hosffman Ospino, “will strengthen ties of collaboration that are bound to yield many fruits for the good of the Church and the larger society.” port of this important project,” said Ospino. “It will strengthen ties of collaboration that are bound to yield many fruits for the good of the Church and the larger society.”

“Nuevo Momento affirms and expands on the STM’s commitment to develop and support pastoral leaders at the service of the Catholic Church,” said STM Dean

Michael McCarthy, S.J. “We are proud to have a member of our esteemed faculty, Hosffman Ospino, lead this important project centered on mentoring and supporting a new generation of high-level Hispanic ministerial leaders for an increasingly Hispanic Church.”

Through the project, each invited organization will participate in three capacity- and leadership-building programs that focus on organizational planning, executive ministerial leadership formation, and financial and organizational sustainability. Nuevo Momento will also offer participants organizational networking and ministerial support as well as more than $8.5 million in direct financial resources to invest in personnel development, staffing, and technology needs to achieve long-term organizational goals and sustainability.

According to Ospino, Nuevo Momento aims to empower leaders, staff, and other people involved in carrying out the mission of these organizations to re-envision how they see themselves, how they operate, how they plan and assess their work, how they execute their mission, and how they identify and develop other leaders.

Organizations selected to be part of Nuevo Momento will be invited to nominate candidates who are in high-level leadership positions or are in line to assume such positions, among others, to enroll in a new 36-credit master’s degree in Ministerial Leadership program, specially designed by the STM. The module-based degree will integrate in-person seminars and online formation units, require the design of an innovative capstone project to be implemented in the student’s own organization, and pair students with nationally recognized ministerial leaders and experts as mentors.

Nuevo Momento, Ospino said, will cre-

ate the conditions and inspire a renewed vision for the 12 participating organizations to advance their missions with more energy and better professional support.

“We hope to generate a movement that

eventually leads to multiple efforts replicating Nuevo Momento’s best practices, insights, and activities in order to center the work of ministerial organizations serving Hispanic Catholics.”

Quigley Joins International Assoc. of Universities Board Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley has been named to the administrative board of the International Association of Universities, which for more than seven decades has served the global higher education community through expertise and trends analysis, publications and portals, advisory services, peer-to-peer learning, events, and global advocacy, according to the IAU website.

Comprising nearly 600 institutions (universities or degree-conferring higher education institutions focused on teaching and research), higher education organizations, affiliates (non-governmental organizations or networks), and associates (respected higher education leaders and experts) from more than 120 countries, the IAU pursues strategic priorities involving leadership, internationalization, sustainable development, and digital transformation.

The IAU administrative board includes representatives from four geographical areas, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Pacific, and Europe. Quigley is among four members representing the Americas, as is Ignacio Sánchez Díaz, president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, which is in a partnership with BC’s Connell School of Nursing. Other Jesuit universities represented on the IAU administrative board

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include Saint Joseph University of Beirut and Sophia University in Japan.

“Boston College’s Center for International Higher Education has long enjoyed a productive relationship with the International Association of Universities,” said Quigley. “At this moment of growing challenge to internationalization in higher education—and beyond—I look forward to working with my fellow board members to explore new ways to support students and faculty in strengthening global partnerships and collaborations.”

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scholars from diverse disciplines and regions about the state of these rights in the 21st century.

“So many constitutions around the world now integrate rights to education, health care, housing, Social Security, food, water, and sanitation,” said Young, noting that many of these constitutions drew inspiration from the Universal Declaration and other human rights instruments. “The next step is to see what it means to be in a legal system where these are actually guaranteed.”

In her recent research, Young has studied the right to housing in South Africa, the right to health care in Canada, and the right to asylum in Australia, as well as the barriers that can slow or limit access to these rights, including long queues and complex bureaucracies. In a 2022 article in Georgetown Law Journal, Young identified another potential barrier: the recent effort by President Trump’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to limit the scope of human rights to an interpretation of the UN’s original 1948 Universal Declaration and the United States 1776 Declaration of Independence.

The judicial theory called originalism, which asserts that the law should be interpreted according to its original meaning at the time it was written, has long been applied to the U.S. Constitution, but Young said that the extension of originalist interpretation to the human rights field is recent—and concerning.

“The U.S. is singular in allowing human rights to explicitly inform its foreign policy, and that’s something to be celebrated,” Young said. “But if we use a view of human rights that’s frozen in the past, I believe that could be very problematic

“The U.S. is singular in allowing human rights to explicitly inform its foreign policy, and that’s something to be celebrated,” says Young. “But if we use a view of human rights that’s frozen in the past, I believe that could be very problematic for recipients of U.S. foreign aid, and selectively diminish human rights that were recognized more concretely after 1948.” photo by lee pellegrini

for recipients of U.S. foreign aid, and selectively diminish human rights that were recognized more concretely after 1948, including women’s rights, disability rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and rights that prevent race-based discrimination.” It could also diminish recent evolutions in the interpretation of economic and social rights such as the human right to water, she noted.

Young first became interested in international human rights as a law student in her native Australia. This interest led her to study abroad in Germany; after graduation, she practiced in Melbourne, Ghana, and New York City and earned two advanced legal degrees at Harvard Law School.

In 1999, Young interned at the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Con-

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White House Visit

Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson (third from left) was among a group of scholars who met with President Biden in the Oval Office earlier this month. Also in the group were (L-R) Eddie Glaude Jr. and Sean Wilentz (Princeton University), Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University), Beverly Gage (Yale University), and author and presidential biographer Jon Meacham.

vention on Climate Change. “Even then, it was already clear that climate change was a global crisis that would not be avoided in any country or community, and that there would be significant obstacles to addressing it,” she said. Increasingly, her work on economic and social rights intersects with the pressing challenges created by climate change.

This academic year, as part of BC’s new Program on Global Ethics and Social Trust, she is chairing an interdisciplinary

Working Group on Climate Change and Migration. The group includes BC faculty members Noah Snyder, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Hanqin Tian, Schiller Institute Professor of Global Sustainability and professor of earth and environmental sciences; Andrea Vicini, S.J., the Michael P. Walsh Professor of Bioethics and chair of the Theology Department; and Maryanne Loughry, senior advisor to the vice provost for global engagement and social work lecturer. It also includes scholars from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, Pontifical Catholic University in Chile, and Sophia University in Japan.

“The science on different energy models and sustainability is robust, but the obstacles to implementing it are often cultural, legal, and political,” Young said. “There is so much to be gained by speaking about these challenges across disciplines and national boundaries.”

The working group held three meetings this fall, and it will meet three more times before publishing its findings next summer.

In the meantime, Young will continue her own research.

“The economic and social rights that I focus on, from food security to housing, are all subject to different understandings when you consider sustainability as a factor,” she said. “In the year ahead, I want to study the pressures climate change is placing on human rights as I continue to learn from my peers in other fields.”

Economics Chair Earns Distinguished Service Award Professor and Chair of Economics Christopher “Kit” Baum was selected for the American Economic Association (AEA) Distinguished Service Award, which salutes the volunteer efforts of individuals whose service to the profession has impacted the field of economics in a significant and positive way on a national scale.

Baum, who received the award earlier this month at the AEA annual meeting in New Orleans, was chosen for his multidecade volunteering effort to promote open-source repositories, transparency, and reproducibility within the profession. In 1997, the AEA noted, Baum established the Statistical Software Components (SSC) archive and has continued to be its custodian. SSC is a repository containing userwritten software for statistical analysis. SSC has made it possible for software users to easily access programming packages, such as data management utilities, estimation routines, as well as post-estimation and output processing routines.

“The number of programming packages on SSC now stands at more than 3,000, with a per-month average of over 300 hits per package,” the association stated in its announcement. “Kit’s setting up and maintaining of SSC have made and continue to make a massive contribution to the empiri-

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cal research community worldwide and have helped democratize access to methods at the frontier of econometrics.”

The AEA is a non-profit, non-partisan, scholarly association dedicated to the discussion and publication of economics research. Its more than 20,000 members come from academe, business, government, and consulting groups within diverse disciplines from multicultural backgrounds.

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McRorie, Fr. Molvarec Bolster the STM Faculty

BY KATHLEEN SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER

School of Theology and Ministry Assistant Professor of Church History Stephen Molvarec, S.J., and Associate Professor of Moral Theology Christina McRorie are among those faculty members starting their second semester at Boston College.

Fr. Molvarec is already quite well acquainted with STM, having gone from student to faculty member in record time.

“I had to be the fastest crossover to the other side of the desk. One month I was a student, the next month I was hired,” said Fr. Molvarec, who earned a M.Div. in 2022 and an S.T.L. in 2023. “I have [the late former STM Dean] Tom Stegman to thank for that because Tom was just convinced that I belonged here and it was just a question of working out where and how at BC.” After graduation, Fr. Molvarec served as visiting assistant professor at STM during 2022-2023, becoming a full-fledged faculty member this past July. Last semester, he co-taught History of Western Christianity I with STM Dean Michael McCarthy, S.J. It was his first experience co-teaching a course, and he found it to be “fun.” His other course was a seminar on heresy.

One of the courses he is teaching this semester is on Tolkien. For the future, he is considering courses on topics such as the history of silence and contemplation or the history of the relationship of Christians with the material world.

A member of Midwest Province, Fr. Molvarec was first drawn to STM because he and his provincial were looking for a place that would offer intellectual rigor and help in his formation as a priest. “I like our community here. Faculty are invested in it, and students are invested in it in a way that

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ongoing tension between globalization and the nation-state system over governance, law, economy, and culture, but also the other ways people define their “place”— sites of cultural, political, psychological, and/or religious significance that may resist being incorporated into the dominant world order of nation-states.

Among the questions prompted by the theme, said Laurence, are: What role do such places play within a world of nation-states? What role should they play?

How do the logics of globalization and the nation-state system interact with the various forms of attachment to place that persists in our world? And which kinds of attachment to place are most significant, most valuable, and/or most destabilizing to democratic societies?

“Mexico offers so many layers of attachment for us to examine up close—including the history of indigenous groups, of Catholics and religious minorities, as well as a dynamic democratic system that is experiencing many of the same pressures we encounter here in the United States,” he said.

Christina McRorie and Stephen Molvarec, S.J., have just started their second semester at the School of Theology and Ministry. photos by lee pellegrini and caitlin cunningham

doesn’t always happen in other places. Also, I’ve questioned how what I do as a historian can be helpful for the Society [Jesuits] or the Church. And in this role as a church historian, I’m helping form ministers for the Church. And so, in my mind and in my heart, joining STM was a perfect arrangement.”

As a medieval historian, Fr. Molvarec conducts research in medieval Latin, French, and German. He is a member of several professional associations, including the Medieval Academy of America and the La Société Internationale des Médiévistes in Paris, for which he served as director of communications for 12 years. He recently began a term on the board of directors for the New York State Association of European Historians.

He earned a master of arts and doctorate in medieval history, both from the University of Notre Dame. For his dissertation, he explored what the Carthusians, a religious order of hermit-monks founded more than 900 years ago in France, Along with Laurence, the fellows were accompanied by Assistant Professor of History and Clough faculty affiliate Maria de los Angeles Picone; Fernando Bizzarro, who will join the Political Science faculty this fall; and Clough Post-Doctoral Fellow Nicholas Hayes-Mota. Sharing their expertise—Picone in the intersection of nature and nation-making, Bizzarro in democratic governance—in discussions during the visit helped the students to process what they had read, seen, and heard, said Laurence.

The Clough Doctoral Fellows had plenty of experiences during the trip to prompt reflection and discussion, including an excursion to Amatlán de Quetzlcoatl, a village dating back thousands of years, long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico, populated by the indigenous people known as Nahuas. Another day included a meeting with residents from a rural community who succeeded in preventing a transnational mining project they feared would harm their environment and displace the community. They also attended a press conference given by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Ph.D. candidate Meghan McCoy, who studies late-20th-century U.S. history and the relationship between neoliberalism,

thought about solitude and how they related to society and the Church. He was particularly drawn to study a time period in the mid-1200s when the order, which had most of its monasteries in remote, inaccessible places, chose to build a monastery in close proximity to Paris.

Fr. Molvarec attended Canisius College in Buffalo, where he first encountered the Jesuits. His positive experiences at Canisius inform his approach as a teacher and pastoral minister.

Economic justice has always been an area of interest for McRorie, whose research, at the intersection of Catholic moral theology and Catholic social thought, considers questions of moral agency and obligation in markets.

“The traditional concern of Catholic social thought is justice, and the traditional concern of moral theology is the person before God—questions of sin, grace, and virtue,” said McRorie. “I combine those two sides of a coin in my work on moral agency and markets.”

In this, McRorie aims to go deeper than the question of justice and who is owed what.

“My work also theologically considers what it means to experience the different kinds of pushes and pulls that markets exert on us and on our character,” she said.”I reflect on that not just in terms of virtue and vice, but also spirituality.”

She examines what it means to be a person before God in the marketplace. “I look at the question of how we are formed, and whom different kinds of market settings and configurations encourage us to be. How do specific contexts support—or get in the way of—our response to God’s grace in our lives and our call to experience union with God?” A native of Anchorage, Alaska, McRorie comes to the STM after seven years on the faculty at Creighton University. Last semester, she taught Theological Ethics and Global Development, and Gender, Race and Theological Ethics. This spring she is teaching Ethics and Spirituality and Theological Ethics and the Economy.

McRorie earned a bachelor of arts degree from Pepperdine University, a master of arts in religion from Yale Divinity School, and a doctorate in religious studies from the University of Virginia.

“I love being at the STM and supporting its mission to train graduate students for lives of service and leadership inside the Church and out,” said McRorie. “I’m really delighted to walk alongside students as they develop their theological voices and sharpen their sense of where to use their gifts to make the world a better place. My job is to fan the flame of the callings that led them to the STM in the first place.”

Read the full interviews at bit.ly/STMstephen-molvarec-profile and bit.ly/STMchristina-mcrorie-profile

Clough Center Doctoral Fellows and Boston College faculty members during their recent visit to Mexico.

reproduction, and the state, praised the Clough Doctoral Fellows program for its “emphasis on actively engaging intellectual thought with the broader world and for its commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship.”

For Picone, the trip offered a welcome opportunity to introduce Latin American culture to students unfamiliar with the region, but also to broaden her own understanding. “The Clough Center’s ‘Attachment to Place’ theme really speaks to me: I study how people came to construct dif-

ferent ideas of ‘the nation’ in their understandings and their experiences related to geographical space. So, I’m excited to learn more about different multiple iterations of the nation, in places ranging from a local market to a national museum.”

The group’s seminar meeting this month will be dedicated to reviewing and discussing the Mexico trip, said Laurence. The Clough Center’s spring symposium in March will be the capstone of the experience and include appearances by awardwinning scholars, planners, and journalists.

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Lowell Humanities Series Spring Schedule Is Set A lineup “markedly global in its orientation” signifies this semester’s Boston College Lowell Humanities Series (LHS), according to the series’ Interim Director Sylvia Sellers-García—with appearances by distinguished writers, scholars, artists, and a recent United States Poet Laureate.

“Speakers will address the women of Iran, stories from Latin America, and the history of Cuba,” said Sellers-García, a professor of history. “As is often the case, the spring 2024 speakers demonstrate how the arts can be joined to the work of activism, and how storytelling can recast and transform the way we see the world around us.

I’m very excited to be hosting these distinguished artists and thinkers.”

LHS events are free and open to the public, and take place at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100.

January 31: Roya Hakakian—An Iranian-American writer, journalist, and public speaker, Hakakian has published her work in prominent publications such as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic; her latest book, A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious, has drawn critical praise. A founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, she has offered commentary to CNN, MSNBC, the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, and the State Department. The Guggenheim Fellowship recipient is regarded as among her generation’s most important activists, academics, and journalists. Cosponsored by the BC International Studies and Islamic Civilization and Societies programs, with support from an Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA) Major Grant.

February 7: Annual Candlemas Lecture, with Fr. James Alison—A Catholic theologian, priest, and author who has written on issues of polarization, reconciliation, and LGBTQ individuals, Fr. Alison has studied, lived, and worked in Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Spain, the U.S., and his native England. His books include Knowing Jesus, Raising Abel, The Joy of Being Wrong, Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay, On Being Liked, Undergoing God, Broken Hearts and New Creations: Intimations of a Great Reversal. His most recent, Jesus the Forgiving Victim: Listening for the Unheard Voice, follows the insight into desire from French thinker René Girard. Fr. Alison is a fellow and chair of the Education Committee at IMITATIO, an organization focusing on Girard’s insights into mimetic desire. Cosponsored by the Theology Department.

February 21: Poetry Days Presents Joy Harjo—In 2019, Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms. Her nine books of poetry include Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light, An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. She is also the author of the memoirs Crazy Brave and Poet War-

Lowell Humanities Series speakers this semester include (clockwise from top left): Ada Ferrer, Bill Rauch, Daniel Alarcón, Fr. James Alison, Roya Hakakian, Yiyun Li, and Joy Harjo.

photos by jenny graham (rauch), agence opale (li), and matika wilbur (harjo)

rior, and has edited several anthologies of Native American writing. Her many writing honors include the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, for which she is a chancellor. Cosponsored by the BC Poetry Days Series, American Studies Program, English Department, Creative Writing Discretionary Fund, and BC Forum on Racial Justice in America.

February 28: Daniel Alarcón—Writer and radio producer Alarcón explores the social, cultural, and linguistic ties that connect people across Latin America and Spanish-speaking communities in the Americas. His narrative storytelling chronicles individual lives and underreported topics against the backdrop of broader geopolitical and historical forces. Alarcón joined the Columbia University faculty in 2014 and is a School of Journalism associate professor. He also is the executive producer of Radio Ambulante, and a contributing writer on Latin America at The New Yorker.

Alarcón authored the novels At Night We Walk in Circles and Lost City Radio and two short story collections, and is a recipient of both Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. Supported by an ILA Major Grant.

March 13: Ada Ferrer—Ferrer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Cuba: An American History chronicles more than 500 years of Cuban history and its relations with the U.S. She also authored Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898, which won the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman in any field of history, and Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, which won prizes from Yale University and the American Historical Association. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and research support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission,

and others. Cosponsored by the History and Romance Languages and Literatures departments, Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series, and McMullen Museum of Art. March 20: Fiction Days Presents Yiyun Li—Li’s 11 books include The Book of Goose, Where Reasons End, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, and Tolstoy Together, 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. Among her honors and awards are MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, four PEN America Literary Awards, and others. She is a professor at Princeton University, where she directs the Program in Creative Writing. Cosponsored by the Fiction Days Series, American Studies and Asian American Studies programs, and BC Forum on Racial Justice in America.

April 3: Bill Rauch—Rauch, the inaugural artistic director of The Perelman Cen-

ter for the Performing Arts at the World Trade Center, has had his work featured on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning production of Robert Schenkkan’s “All The Way” and its companion play “The Great Society.” As artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the country’s oldest and largest rotating repertory theater, he directed seven world premieres and innovative productions of classic musicals and commissioned new plays. Rauch co-founded the Cornerstone Theater Company and directed more than 40 productions.

Cosponsored by the Theatre and English departments and Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy.

The Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, the ILA, and the Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculties. For more information and to RSVP to reserve seating, see the Lowell Humanities Series website, www.bc.edu/lowell.

—University Communications

Nota Bene Boston College Law School William J. Kenealy, S.J., Professor James Repetti was recently elected a member of the American College of Tax Counsel (ACTC), a national association of 700 tax attorneys responsible for providing tax law guidance and development.

ACTC members are recognized for their dedication to the betterment of tax law through active involvement in the taxation committees or sections of national, regional, state, or local bar associations’ legal writing, teaching in the field, and holding responsible national or regional office involving tax administration.

A BC Law professor since 1986, Repetti has served as a consultant to the United States Senate Budget Committee, and to various U.S. senators on tax principles. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 20 books, published articles in the NYU Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Notre Dame Law Review, and written for many other academic and professional journals.

He co-founded the Boston College Law School Tax Policy Workshop, and received BC Law’s first award for teaching excellence in 1999.

Professor Larry McLaughlin, 73

OBITUARIES

‘Moe’ Maloney, Baseball Coach, Neighborhood Center Asst. Dir. A funeral Mass was held on December 16 for Richard “Moe” Maloney ’60, who played for and coached the Boston College baseball team, then took on a key role in the University’s outreach to local neighborhoods. Mr. Maloney died on December 7.

He was 84.

As a senior at the Heights, Mr. Maloney was a member of one of BC baseball’s most successful teams, which went to the 1960 College World Series in Omaha, making it through the first round before being eliminated. Thirty-nine years later, he would succeed his former coach Eddie Pellagrini as the Eagles’ mentor.

It was a homecoming in more ways than one. Mr. Maloney grew up in nearby Newton and, he recalled in a 1990 Boston College Magazine interview, lived close enough to BC that as a kid he would occasionally sneak into Eagles football games (he also admitted to jumping into the Chestnut Hill Reservoir). He had continued to live in Newton, along with his wife Marion and their children, and now he was working for his alma mater.

Before taking the helm at BC, Mr. Maloney had amassed many years of coaching experience, in basketball—which he also played while at the Heights—as well as baseball; his other stops included Boston State College, Massachusetts Bay Community College, St. Sebastian’s Country Day School, and Bentley College (he also taught eighth grade at the Morse School in Cambridge for 30 years). This provided him with a sizeable network of friends and contacts in the school sports community, and an asset in recruiting, as then-Athletic Director Bill Flynn noted in a 1990 Boston College Magazine profile of Mr. Maloney: “He just seems to know everyone in the baseball world.”

Mr. Maloney did not lead BC back to the College World Series, but during his 10 seasons at the helm the team compiled six 20-win seasons and won three titles in the baseball version of the Beanpot Tournament. Just as importantly, as a 1994 Heights story observed, Mr. Maloney “created a tradition of baseball success” at a school where football, basketball, and hockey occupied most of the spotlight.

“This is the best coaching job in the country,” Mr. Maloney told The Heights.

“There are better money jobs, there are bigger programs, but this place is the best.

This is the best school, and we get the best kids.”

In 1998, Mr. Maloney retired as baseball coach, but not from BC. He became assistant director at the Boston College Neighborhood Center, a vital link in the University’s connection with area residents.

Mr. Maloney helped create volunteer opportunities for BC student-athletes, through working with and teaching local elementary school students in their com-

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munities.

For example, as reported in a 1999 Boston College Chronicle story, the center teamed with other BC offices, the Brighton-based Commonwealth Tenants Association, and the Greater Boston Food Bank to start the Food for Families program, supplying some 200 needy Brighton residents with monthly bags of nutritionally balanced groceries. Mr. Maloney led monthly sessions where BC student-athletes, staff, and alumni assisted in packing up groceries that would be picked up by families or distributed by the BC volunteers to elderly residents. The BC athletes often would stay to play basketball or soccer with local youngsters.

“Moe Maloney was passionate about BC, baseball, and kids,” said BC Neighborhood Center Director Maria DiChiappari.

“Moe loved serving his alma mater and his commitment to the Allston, Brighton, Newton, and Boston College communities was steadfast. In his role at the Boston College Neighborhood Center for 20 years, he unceasingly sought out and created opportunities for student-athletes and neighborhood kids to connect and build meaningful relationships. With one of his beloved dogs, Seamus and then Teddy, by his side, Moe was a constant presence in the Allston Brighton community. Affectionately called ‘Coach Moe’ to many, Moe was well respected and represented Boston College everywhere he went with pride.”

Boston College Athletics established the Richard “Moe” Maloney Award in his honor, presented to the top student-athlete or team who have utilized their abilities in unselfish service to others, creating a community of caring action. He was recognized by the Boston College Varsity Club Hall of Fame with the Reverend William J. Donlon Special Achievement Award, and received the Francis Kirby Connelly Memorial Award, given to a member of the BC hockey community who best exemplifies the ideals of the Ignatian spirit of service to others.

Mr. Maloney is survived by his wife; children Ann, Richard ’92, and Kara; and seven grandchildren.

Donations may be made in Mr. Maloney’s memory to the Peter “Sonny” Nictakis Baseball Scholarship Fund at BC [https://bceagles.com/news/2000/7/6/ Ways_of_Giving] or to the Peter Frates Family Foundation [https://petefrates.com/ donate/].

—University Communications

Larry W. McLaughlin, a professor of chemistry at Boston College for 34 years whose research investigated the mysteries of DNA, creating new anti-virals, and the potential of nano-scale drug therapies, died on November 9 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. He was 73.

A passionate classroom teacher, Dr. McLaughlin also managed a research group, supporting students at every level, and supervising and mentoring doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers. He published research in leading peer-reviewed journals throughout his career, and also volunteered his time working with K-12 teachers to improve science education and encourage student interest in STEM study and careers.

In addition to his teaching and research, Dr. McLaughlin served stints as the department chair and from 2010 to 2013 as University vice provost for research and academic planning.

“We are heartbroken by Larry’s passing,” said Margaret A. and Thomas A. ‘53 Vanderslice Professor in Chemistry Dunwei Wang, the department chair. “He was an insightful mentor, a passionate scientist, and above all, a great friend. The department was lucky to have had him, and all of us consider ourselves extremely fortunate to have worked alongside him for so many years.

“I still recall vividly the many chats we have had during our afternoon tea times, when I heard not only invaluable advice on how to do science but also his passion on cars and kitchen chemistry. His passing is a huge loss for the department and for the University. We express our sincere condolences to his family.”

A native of Seattle, Dr. McLaughlin earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California at Riverside and a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Alberta. He worked at the Max Planck Institute in Germany and joined the Boston College faculty in 1985, retiring in 2019.

Away from the lab, colleagues said, Dr. McLaughlin’s passions included cooking, travel, ambitious do-it-yourself projects, and vintage cars.

photo by lee pellegrini

In a 2013 Boston College Chronicle story, Dr. McLaughlin discussed the 1954 Austin Healey M-100 he and his friends, tech executive Michael Perlmutter and restoration specialist Maurizio Cerasoli, restored then shipped to Italy to participate in the Mille Miglia, an historic road rally deemed “the most beautiful race in the world.”

Earning a spot in the race required a detailed and historic restoration of the car in order to meet the stringent requirements of race organizers, who only accept vintage autos manufactured between 1927 and 1957.

“The hardest thing about this race is getting into it,” Dr. McLaughlin told Chronicle. “There were over 1,500 applications for 375 slots. The first thing you have to do is get in. The selection process is something of a mystery, but known to be extremely difficult.”

Dr. McLaughlin, Perlmutter, and Cerasoli took turns behind the wheel as they traveled the 1,000-mile course from the northern city of Brescia, south to Ferrara, through Rome, and north back to Brescia.

“I look upon it as part spectacle, part race, part parade, part party,” recalled Dr. McLaughlin, describing the once-in-a-lifetime experience as a “bucket list” item for him and his friends.

A resident of Newport, NH, at the time of his death, Dr. McLaughlin is survived by his wife Jean (Frankie), their children Martin and Mareika, two grandchildren, and four of his siblings. The McLaughlin family have invited people to make donations in Dr. McLaughlin’s memory that support research into Parkinson’s Disease.

—University Communications

Jobs The following are among the recent positions posted by the Department of Human Resources. For more information on employment opportunities at Boston College, see www.bc.edu/jobs or scan the QR code at right.

Assistant Director, Employee Engagement Fitness Coordinator

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BC Arts

Exhibition Reveals Legacy of a ‘Lost Generation’

BY ROSANNE PELLEGRINI STAFF WRITER

An exclusive exhibition opening later this month at the McMullen Museum of Art of Boston College casts a revealing light on how women played a major role in Cuba’s avant-garde movement.

“The Lost Generation: Women Ceramicists and the Cuban Avant-Garde,” on view in the McMullen Museum’s Daley Family and Monan Galleries from January 29 to June 2, examines the participants and artistic output from 1949 to 1959 of the Taller de Santiago de las Vegas, a ceramic workshop on the outskirts of Havana.

The McMullen Museum has sent an email invitation with an online RSVP to members of the University community for the Members’ Virtual Lecture on January 28 from 11 a.m.–noon. The museum will be open that day from noon–5 p.m. for BC community members to view “The Lost Generation” and paintings from the permanent collection, including the recently acquired Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch Collection.

This bilingual (English-Spanish) exhibition is the first to show how these innovative works by avant-garde women ceramicists influenced other artists of that period whose focus was on more established media. Until now, organizers note, Cuban avant-garde (vanguardia) design has been defined as a male-dominated movement.

The majority of the nearly 200 works on display in “The Lost Generation” are from a private collection, and have never before been exhibited in the United States.

“The McMullen is pleased to present ‘The Lost Generation,’ the seventh exhibition organized as part of its Hispanic Art Initiative, which ventures into the littleexplored, women-dominated medium of

mid-20th-century Cuban artistic ceramics,” said Nancy Netzer, Inaugural Robert L. and Judith T. Winston Director of the McMullen Museum and Professor of Art History.

“Thanks to generous loans from private collectors and galleries, curator Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta [McMullen Museum adjunct curator] has assembled an outstanding selection of ceramics produced in the visionary Dr. Juan Miguel Rodríguez de la Cruz’s Taller de Santiago de las Vegas.

She has paired the ceramics with paintings and sculptures by Cuba’s second- and third-generation modernists to reveal for the first time how the avant-garde ceramicists’ innovations exerted powerful influence on artists working in more traditional media.”

A decade of artistic experimentation primarily by littleknown women ceramicists had deep reverberations both for the acceptance of ceramics as a fine art form in Cuba and for the symbiotic relationship that flourished between the ceramicists and the painters—largely men—who visited the Taller to learn the craft. The painters in turn applied new techniques and methodologies to their two-dimensional production, which is now regarded as synonymous with the Cuban avant-garde.

Featuring nearly 150 vases, mugs, water jugs, murals, and plates drawn from premier private and gallery collections, “The Lost Generation” displays for the first time many of the Taller’s finest ceramics in conversation with dozens of paintings and sculptures by Amelia Peláez, René Portocarrero, Wifredo Lam, Luis Martínez Pedro, Mariano Rodríguez, and others. In addition to the ceramics, 37 paintings, three sculptures, and archival materials from the ceramic workshop will be on display.

At the helm of the Taller was Rodrí-

BC Scenes Endeavor

Last week saw the 2024 Endeavor, Boston College’s annual career exploration program for sophomores and juniors. At right, attendees had the chance to talk with alumni including Massport Director of Cybersecurity Jarret Wright ’02, and took the “Career Trek” into Boston to visit organizations such as Gupta Media, where they heard from founder Gogi Gupta (above). For more, see bc.edu/endeavor.

“Fishermen,” above, and “Water Jug with Abstract Roosters” will be among the works on display in the upcoming McMullen Museum exhibition “The Lost Generation: Women Ceramicists and the Cuban Avant-Garde.”

guez de la Cruz, a physician who formed and fired the ceramics and hired mainly women, many of whom were trained at the prestigious Academia San Alejandro and other fine arts schools, to decorate the wares. These ceramicists created their own styles, establishing an artistic movement that garnered national and international recognition.

Among the artists whose work is included are key ceramicists at the Taller; they, along with Rodríguez de la Cruz, welcomed the participation of renowned modernist painters and sculptors, whose pieces are also on display. Represented in the exhibition are also those who worked in the milieu of the Taller: Marta Arjona, Elia Rosa Fernández de Mendía, Mirta García Buch, Aleida González, Rosa Jiménez, María Elena Jubrías, María Pepa Lamarque, Amelia Peláez, Rebeca Robés Massés, Ofelia Sam, Wifredo Arcay, Agustín Cárdenas, Viredo Espinosa, Maximiliano González Olazábal, Julio Herrera Zapata, Wifredo Lam, René Martínez Palenzuela, Luis Martínez Pedro, José María Mijares, Raúl Milián, René Portocarrero, Mariano Rodríguez, Juan Miguel Rodríguez de la Cruz, and Leopoldo Romañach.

“I am honored to be introducing in this photos by lee pellegrini

exhibition a whole generation of unknown or underrepresented Cuban women ceramic artists,” said Thompson Goizueta, a former BC faculty member in Hispanic studies. “Their contributions are not limited to Cuba alone but rather are emblematic of the greater international mid-century modernist movement. Until now, vanguardia design has been exclusively defined as a male-dominated movement. In the 21st century, we are finally recognizing the complexity and fullness of our societies and their participants.”

The trajectory of ceramics following the Cuban Revolution of 1959 is also explored in the exhibition. According to organizers, many of those who worked at the Taller went on to found their own independent workshops, furthering the commercialization, and acceptance, of fine art modernist ceramics on the island.

Lenders to the exhibition include a prominent private collection, Cernuda Arte, Latin Art Core, Pan American Art Projects, Silvia and Emilio M. Ortiz, Isaac and Betty Rudman, and several anonymous collectors.

“The Lost Generation” is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue edited by Thompson Goizueta that illustrates each work in the exhibition and explores the origins of late 19th- and early 20-century art in Cuba, the protagonists of the first two generations of the vanguardia, the importance for Cuban modernism of the women ceramicists’ involvement in the Taller de Santiago de las Vegas, and the stylistic contributions of the women artists.

Organized by the McMullen Museum, the exhibition has been underwritten by BC with major support from the Patrons and the Hispanic Art Initiative of the McMullen Museum.

In-person and virtual public programming is planned for the general public and museum members. For more information, and to sign up for those events that require advance registration, see mcmullenmuseum.bc.edu/about/events.html. For updates on additional events, subscribe to the McMullen mailing list through the museum website.