Events

Starting in the 2024–2025 academic year, Boston College Libraries will collaborate to arrange events, both virtual and on campus, to support research and collegiality within the scholarly community. Additional programs, including a conference, are also forthcoming. To learn more or collaborate on an event, please email librariescatholicresearch@bc.edu.

The Nancy Marzella Annual Lecture on Women and American Catholicism

In September 2024, the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life and BC Libraries will inaugurate an annual address to examine different aspects of the historical contributions and experiences of Catholic women in the United States. These events will provide opportunities for the Boston College community to engage with and learn from the field’s leading scholars. Kathleen Sprows Cummings of the University of Notre Dame will deliver the inaugural lecture. More information is available on the Boisi Center’s website.

Roundtables

The first in a series of scholarly roundtable discussions, bringing together scholars and archivists, will take place in the spring of 2025. Hosted over two days at Boston College, these events provide informal settings for invited researchers and archivists to share works in progress, to identify needs of the scholarly community, and to foster collaboration between individuals and institutions.

Writing Workshops

Boston College Libraries has organized a cohort of scholars, individuals from the global scholarly community committed, once a month, to reading in-progress works and to meeting virtually for a discussion during the 2024–2025 academic year. These works are drafts of either conference papers, articles, chapters, or book proposals. As a capstone event for this inaugural cohort, a final workshop will take place at Boston College in June 2025.