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7 upcoming lectures and talks from Stonehill College, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →

Geoffrey Kelly: Thirteen Perfect Fugitives
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Wed Oct 21 · 1:30pm

Geoffrey Kelly: Thirteen Perfect Fugitives

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Geoffrey Kelly, a retired FBI agent, discusses Thirteen Perfect Fugitives: The True Story of the Mob, Murder, and the World's Largest Art Heist, his account of pursuing the thirteen works stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in March 1990 by two thieves dressed as police officers. Among the works, still missing, are Vermeer's The Concert and Rembrandt's only seascape, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.

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Tue Oct 27 · 1:30pm

Martin Lecture: Updates on Immigration Law with Mahsa Khanbabai

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Mahsa Khanbabai, a Massachusetts immigration attorney, talks about where immigration law meets free speech and about the work of immigration lawyers trying to protect fundamental rights in an increasingly difficult climate. Khanbabai has practised immigration law for more than twenty years, representing individuals, nonprofits, schools and businesses, and has led the New England chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Sponsored by Stonehill's Martin Institute for Law & Society.

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Mon Nov 16 · 1:30pm

Martin Lecture: Midterm Election Results

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Stonehill's resident political scientists take stock of the November 3 midterm elections, discussing the political landscape the results leave behind and what to expect from the incoming 120th Congress in the House of Representatives. The lecture is sponsored by the college's Martin Institute for Law & Society.

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Nakamichi Series: Area 9 Saxophone Quartet
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Tue Nov 17 · 8pm

Nakamichi Series: Area 9 Saxophone Quartet

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Area 9, a Boston-based saxophone quartet, gives this Nakamichi Series recital. Its founding members came together through Ken Radnofsky, who teaches saxophone at the New England Conservatory and Boston University. Recent programmes have paired Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Clara Schumann with Ida Gotkovsky and Marc Mellits, and the quartet has commissioned and premiered new works, among them Jun Feng's Somehow, Tango.

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Thu Nov 19 · 6:00pm

Becoming Human: A Reckoning in Two Voices

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Jaser AbuMousa, a Palestinian from Gaza, and the Israeli Kobi Skolnick draw on their lives to talk about grief, identity and the beliefs that shape how each sees the other. AbuMousa lost his wife, two of his children and his mother in the war in Gaza and now lives in Walpole; Skolnick grew up Hasidic, lived in a West Bank settlement and turned to peace work after army service.

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Tue Dec 1 · 7pm

Stonehill College Festival of Lessons and Carols

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Stonehill's Festival of Lessons and Carols tells the story of the birth of Jesus in readings from Scripture, with music between them sung by the Stonehill College Chapel Choir. The service, a holiday tradition on campus, is open to the Stonehill community, family and friends. The form dates to Truro in 1880 and was made famous by King's College, Cambridge.

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Salameno History Lecture: Colin Calloway
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Thu Feb 25 · 4:30pm

Salameno History Lecture: Colin Calloway

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Colin G. Calloway, John Kimball Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College, gives the annual Salameno History Lecture, a series named for former Stonehill trustees Lawrence and Theresa Salameno. Calloway took his PhD at the University of Leeds and has written many books on Native American history; The Indian World of George Washington was a 2018 National Book Award finalist.

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