The Irish Influence, a weekly webinar that brings Irish academics and scholars to Boston College, the city of Boston, and beyond live from Dublin every Friday, will feature on October 9 award-winnng author/playwright Mark O’Connell, whose recent best-selling books includeTo Be A Machine and Notes from an Apocalypse.
Sponsored by Boston College Ireland and BC's Irish Studies program, and supported by the Consulate General of Ireland in Boston, the sessions are led by BC Ireland Academic Director Mike Cronin and Professor of the Practice of English and Irish Studies Joe Nugent.
Mark O'Connell (Richard Gilligan)
O’Connell, who is featured regularly in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Guardian, is considered one of the most significant global commentators on the future shape of the world, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism.
Awarded the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, O’Connell’s To Be a Machine carries the reader on an astonishing journey into the world as it will be. The Times of London described this “gentle, humorous and lovingly written book” as “a Homer’s Odyssey for the digital age.”
The O’Connell interview will begin at 4:30 p.m. ET (9.30 p.m. Irish time) on Friday, October 9, via Zoom.
Find the full fall schedule of guests on The Irish Influence website.
University Communications | October 2020