Boston College Front Row

Chiara Frenquellucci, preceptor in Romance languages and literatures at Harvard University, presents an analysis and reading of the ninth canto of Dante's Purgatorio. Frenquellucci's commentary is in English; the reading from the Comedy is in Italian. This program is part of an ongoing public reading of the Divine Comedy organized by the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Center for Italian Culture in Newton, Massachusetts. Frenquellucci is introduced by Laurie Shepard, associate professor of Italian in the Romance languages and literatures department of Boston College. Speaker: Chiara Frenquellucci Date: January 30, 2006 Length: 39:50

Michael Dukakis, former governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate, is professor of political science at Northeastern University. He presents a lecture on his experience in politics and the future of the Democratic Party, with special focus on the place of grassroots organizing and youth involvement in the political arena. Dukakis is introduced by Justin Galacki '06, president of the College Democrats of Boston College. Speaker: Michael Dukakis Date: December 5, 2005 Length: 1:34:48

Adam Hochschild presents "Twelve Men in a Printing Shop, May 22, 1787: A Great Human Rights Movement is Born," a lecture on the birth of British abolitionism. This is the subject of his newest book, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (Houghton Mifflin: 2005). Hochschild teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of five other books, including King Leopold's Ghost, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. Hochschild is introduced by Prof. David Northrup, a member of the history faculty at Boston College. Speaker: Adam Hochschild Date: December 1, 2005 Length: 1:14:46

Poet Paul Mariani and illustrator Barry Moser talk about their artistic collaborations. Speakers: Paul Mariani and Barry Moser Date: September 27, 2005 Length: 53:33

Alan Wolfe on how America has lost, and can regain, its sense of purpose. Speaker: Alan Wolfe Date: May 12, 2005 Length: 38:20

History professor Seth Jacobs on one of the most ruinous foreign policy decisions of the postwar era. Speaker: Seth Jacobs Date: April 13, 2005 Length: 48:13

History professor James O'Toole on transformations in American Catholic religious practice. Speaker: James O'Toole Date: February 2, 2005 Length: 40:34

Author Juliet Schor on advertising aimed at children. Speaker: Juliet Schor Date: November 4, 2004 Length: 40:53

Jeffery Howe on his 30-year relationship with the painter Fernand Khnopff. Speaker: Jeffery Howe Date: September 30, 2004 Length: 39:37

A conversation with Elizabeth Graver, fiction writer and author of the new novel Awake. Speaker: Elizabeth Graver Date: May 7, 2004 Length: 37:56

William Neenan, SJ, on his popular, long-running, iconoclastic Dean's List of recommended reading. Speaker: William B. Neenan, SJ Date: February 17, 2004 Length: 35:45

Carlo Rotella on tank-town fights, ring names, Larry Holmes's soul, and the boxer's code of honor. Speaker: Carlo Rotella Date: October 16, 2003 Length: 46:26

Alexander Gates is a professor and chair of the Department of Geology at Rutgers University. He discusses his fieldwork investigating recently-developed faults and other signs of post-glacial activity in the upper Hudson highlands of New York.