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April 17, 2008 What Would Thoreau Think? Global Warming at Walden Pond Richard Primack, a Boston University College of Arts and Sciences professor of biology, speaks as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Discoveries series. Using the journals of New England naturalist Henry David Thoreau as a comparative guide, Primack and his students, particularly Abraham Miller-Rushing (GRS’07), have been learning for the past five years how climate change and global warming are influencing the behavior of plants and wildlife in Boston. Hosted by College of Arts and Sciences and College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association

May 8, 2008 History and Civic Education: The Learning of Liberty for Civic Life Projects in Civic Engagement at Boston University’s School of Education and the Pioneer Institute, a nonpartisan Massachusetts public policy think tank, host a conference to explore ways to prepare citizens — young people in particular — to embrace liberty and exercise it for the common good. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Gordon S. Wood is the keynote speaker. Hosted by Boston University School of Education and the Pioneer Institute
April 30, 2008 Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture: Edward P. Jones Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones gives Boston University’s semiannual Lowell Lecture, joined by Ha Jin (GRS’93), a College of Arts and Sciences professor, and Catherine Tudish (GRS’87) for a reading and book signing. Hosted by Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Creative Writing Program
April 18, 2008 Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 Journalist and analyst Geneive Abdo, author of Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11, discusses how the Muslim community in the United States has changed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Hosted by Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, College of Arts and Sciences Department of Anthropology, and the BU Humanities Foundation

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