Category Archives: Lowell Humanities Series
Margaret Burnham
Renowned legal scholar, civil rights advocate, and former judge Margaret A. Burnham will deliver a talk on her acclaimed book By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners on April 8 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. By Hands Now … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, civil rights, law, racism
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From Baltimore to Beirut
Sherene Seikaly, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a talk on her current book project “From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine” at Boston College on March 25. Her book … Continue reading
Politics and governance in the digital era
Rogers Brubaker, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles and UCLA Foundation Chair, will speak on “Politics and Governance in the Digital Era: Between Populism and Technocracy” at Boston College on March 18 at 7 p.m. in … Continue reading
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‘Fire Weather’
John Vaillant, whose journalism, fiction, and non-fiction explore collisions between human ambition and the natural world, will speak at Boston College on March 11 at 7 p.m. in Gason 100. Vaillant is the author of the acclaimed book Fire Weather: … Continue reading
Fiction Days presents Yiyun Li
Acclaimed writer Yiyun Li will speak on “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies” at Boston College on February 25 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall 100. Her debut novel, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won a PEN/Hemingway Award, and her short story … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian American Studies, Pulitzer Prize finalist
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Emilie Townes presents Candlemas Lecture
Theologian Emilie M. Townes, an American Baptist clergywoman, will deliver the annual Candlemas Lecture on February 4 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. Townes is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies at Boston University. Previously, … Continue reading
Journalist Caitlin Dickerson on deportation
Caitlin Dickerson, an award-winning writer for The Atlantic, will speak on “Deported: The Price of Our Prosperity” at Boston College on October 29 at 7 p.m in Gasson 100. Dickerson won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, the Livingston … Continue reading
Poetry Days with Philip Metres
Poetry Days presents “An Evening with Philip Metres” at Boston College on October 22 at 7 p.m in Gasson 100. Philip Metres is the author of several works, most recently Fugitive/Refuge, which follows the journey of Metres’s refugee ancestors—from Lebanon … Continue reading
Eco-Consciousness in the Lives of Enslaved Black Women
Prize-winning historian Tiya Miles will present “Eco-Consciousness in the Lives of Enslaved Black Women” at Boston College on October 8 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. Miles is the author of eight books, including the highly acclaimed All That She … Continue reading
‘A Ghost in the Throat’
Poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa will talk about her prose debut, A Ghost in the Throat, at Boston College on September 24 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. A Ghost in the Throat is a genre-defying work that melds … Continue reading
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