New students! Welcome to the wild world of STH! We're glad that you're here, but we know that life in a new place can be overwhelming. To join our peer mentoring program, email Community Life Coordinator, Ashley Anderson (ajanders@bu.edu).  

Current students! Congratulations! In your second, third, or seventh year, you probably know what's going on at least half of the time. If you are a current student who would like to be a peer mentor to a new student, email Ashley. You may also sign up in the admissions office. The mentor program is available to students in all programs at the School of Theology. 

Do you love Haha's and Lol's? Have you any interest in sketch comedy or improv?  

If you have any desire to form a unique brand of humor from the STH community, stop by for an interest meeting on Tuesday, September 17th @2:30 in Marsh Plaza.  Just look for Sam Needham, Lauren Osga, or myself (Laura Owens). If you don't know any of us, look for the people with goofy body language and excessive laughter. We'll discuss regular meetings, visions of what a troupe might look like, and even fun names for our group. If you are unable to attend do not fret, just email me at lauraeo@bu.edu. I'll email you with our next meeting time! 

Boston University's Institute for Philosophy & Religion

"The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing," Simone Weil writes, "it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle."  Can poetry perform such miracles?  Examining this question with reference to poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, William Wordsworth, Eavan Boland, and Alice Oswald, Schweizer notes not only how these poems attend to a sufferer both in their language and their silences, but also how they instruct us to wait, or as Maurice Blanchot puts it, to "keep our haste and our impatient desire" from prematurely filling the sufferer's "empty intimacy of time."  The sufferer's fundamental solitude, as these poems suggest, elicits our acknowledgment of the radically indecipherable qualities of suffering.  It is precisely in the humility of this acknowledgment that we begin to feel empathy.  A poetry that itself ought to be a rare and difficult thing can significantly nurture such a practice of empathic imagining. 

This symposium marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and the 150th anniversary of the founding of Boston College. The symposium will be composed of distinguished scholars from around the world who have studied Vatican II from theological, historical, and cultural standpoints.

The event happens at a crucial moment in the history of the Catholic Church under the papacy of Francis-himself a Jesuit shaped by the legacy of Vatican II. The symposium will focus on the long-term legacy of the Council in the United States and the world. The proceedings will be published in a forthcoming volume.

View the program

The symposium is free of charge and by invitation only.
A light lunch will be served.  Please register online by September 19.

RemixingReligion@gmail.com by November 27, 2013. Proposals should include the presenter's name, institutional and departmental affiliation, and email address as well as the paper title and abstract.

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/rs/events/28544