Boston College Front Row

"There is no biblical book that has been so maligned and so poorly understood and so viciously used as the Book of Jonah," says T. Anthony Perry, a literary scholar who has taught at the University of Connecticut and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Randall Stephenson was named president and CEO of AT&T last spring. Speaking at the CEO Club, he discusses weathering the storm of the "dot com bust."

"There's considerable doubt and confusion in the modern world about objective values, and about how we can find them if they do exist," says Robert Kane, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, a leader in drafting the Sacrosanctum Consilium, which established modern liturgical practices as part of Vatican II, asks whether the document's "profound intentions" have been realized.

The widespread view that there was a profound conflict between science and theology in 16th and 17th century Europe is based on the controversies over Copernicus and Galileo.

Inaugurating the Behrakis Family Symposium in Classical Studies, John McKesson Camp II discusses archeological findings at the Athens agora—the large open square that was a gathering place for public activities such as markets and athletic events.

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns '78 has been a foreign service officer and assistant to presidents of both political parties in the course of his 24-year diplomatic career.

John McCoy, information and collections specialist at the McMullen Museum of Art, discusses the controversy surrounding publication in September 2005 by the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, of political cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

Attorney, author, organizational consultant, and human rights activist Phoebe Eng was the keynote speaker at the opening event of the University's fifth annual celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

William Galston of the University of Maryland, Hahrie Han of Wellesley College, Professor Marc Landy, and Professor Alan Wolfe discuss the nature and significance of what analysts describe as a widening gulf within the American body politic.

Joan Ferrante, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, presents an analysis and reading of the 19th canto of Dante's "Purgatorio." Ferrante's commentary is in English; the reading from the Divine Comedy is in Italian.

War and pacifism in the name of religion have a common source in religion's attempt to give expression to what is transcendent, or holy, according to R. Scott Appleby.

In chemistry, the term "metathesis" refers to a chemical reaction in which bonds between different atoms are broken and the atoms recombine to create a new molecule—a process that has been likened to dancers switching partners.

In chemistry, the term "metathesis" refers to a chemical reaction in which bonds between different atoms are broken and the atoms recombine to create a new molecule—a process that has been likened to dancers switching partners.

In chemistry, the term "metathesis" refers to a chemical reaction in which bonds between different atoms are broken and the atoms recombine to create a new molecule—a process that has been likened to dancers switching partners.

Claudia Baracchi is an associate professor of philosophy at the New School University in New York, who specializes in the ancient philosophers.

The social, economic, and cultural disparities between North America and Europe, on one hand, and the “global south”—Africa, south Asia, and Latin America—help explain different approaches to scripture and ritual, according to Philip Jenkins,

Joseph Tucci, chairman, president, and CEO of EMC Corporation says it’s easy to run an organization if you do three things right: hire good people, get them to work together as a team, and have a clear goal so everyone is “driving to the same place.”

“Can we move from mere toleration to mutual acceptance?” asked Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) at a 1994 conference attended by Bar Ilan University Jewish philosopher Raphael Jospe.

Robert Bernasconi, the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, explores continental philosopher Michel Foucault’s theories