Guestbook Project
The Guestbook Project is an international, non-profit housed at Boston College and directed by Richard Kearney and Sheila Gallagher. Its mission is to transform hostility into hospitality through conversation and conflict resolution.
History
The Guestbook Project began ten years with the intention of using the power of storytelling to heal divided communities and societies around the world. To that end, Guestbook often features conversations of people from dissenting backgrounds, and attempts to have them share their side of the story, listen to the other side, and eventually come to “invent a new story together.” The Guestbook Project has recorded several stories from divided groups around the world, including: Mitrovica, Derry, Jerusalem, Bangalore, Dokdo, Cape Town, and the Mexican-American border. At the moment, the Guestbook Project has over sixty storybites and documentaries on its online platform; the most recent of which being, Sheltering Strangers, which depicts the story of a Greek orphanage for Syrian refugee children.Guestbook team
| Title | Name |
| Co-Director | Richard Kearney |
| Co-Director | Sheila Gallagher |
| Executive Manager | Peter Klapes |
| Director of Pedagogy | Melissa Fitzpatrick |
| Director of Media | Kevin Sweet |
| Assistant Director of Media | Jared Highlen |
Publications
BooksRadical Hospitality: From Thought to Action
Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions
Phenomenologies of the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality
Traversing the Heart: Journeys of the Inter-religious Imagination
On Hosting The Stranger: The New Arcadia Review Vol. 4
Hospitality: Imagining the Stranger
Articles
Double Hospitality—Between Word and Touch
By Richard Kearney
In Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, 1
Linguistic Hospitality—The Risk of Translation
By Richard Kearney
In Research in Phenomenology, 49
Race, pre-college philosophy, and the pursuit of a critical race pedagogy for higher education
By Melissa Fitzpatrick
In Ethics and Education
Across oceans: A conversation on otherness, hospitality and welcoming a strange God
By Richard Kearney, Daniël P. Veldsman, and Yolande Steencamp
In Debating Otherness with Richard Kearney: Perspectives from South Africa, ed. Yolande Steenkamp and Daniël P. Veldsman
Hospitality: Possible or Impossible?
By Richard Kearney
In Hospitality and Society, Numbers 2 & 3, Volume 5, eds. Paul Lynch, Alison McIntosh, and Jennie Germann Molz
Hospitality, the Foundation of Dialogue
By Richard Kearney
In The Japan Mission Journal, ed. Joseph O’Leary
Two Prophets of Eucharistic Hospitality
By Richard Kearney
In The Japan Mission Journal, ed. Joseph O’Leary
Translating Across Faith Cultures: Radical Hospitality
By Richard Kearney
In Perspectiva Nova Eco-Ethics, Revue internationale de philosophie moderne, Acta institutionis philosophiae et aestheticae, ed. Y. Ilmamichi
The Hermeneutics of the Gift: A Dialogue with Eric Severson
By Richard Kearney and Eric R. Severson
In Gift and Economy: Ethics, Hospitality and the Market, ed. Eric Severson
Beyond Conflict: Radical Hospitality and Religious Identity
By Richard Kearney
In Philosophy and the Return of Violence: Studies from this Widening Gyre, ed. Chris Yates and Nathan Eckstrand
Imagining the Sacred Stranger: Hostility or Hospitality?
By Richard Kearney
In Politics and the Religious Imagination, ed. Jens Zimmerman
Welcoming the Stranger
By Richard Kearney
In All Changed? Culture and Identity in Contemporary Ireland, The Fifth Seamus Heaney Lecture Series, eds. Padraig O Duibhir, Rory Mc Daid and Andrew O’Shea
Images of Strangers
By Richard Kearney
In Engage, ed. Karen Raney
Strangers and Others: From Deconstruction to Hermeneutics
By Richard Kearney
In Critical Horizons, 3, 1
Interviews
Intercultural encounters as hospitality: An interview with Richard Kearney
By Breffni O’Rourke
In Journal of Virtual Exchange, Vol 1
We have learned from Covid how much we miss touch
By Joe Humphreys
In The Irish Times