Category Archives: Lowell Humanities Series
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
Plato and ecological guardianship
Award-winning educator Melissa Lane will present “Plato’s Republic on Motivating Ecological Guardianship” at Boston College on September 18 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall 110. Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where she is … Continue reading
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‘The People’s Hospital’
Physician and author Ricardo Nuila will talk about his acclaimed book, The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, at Boston College on September 10 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. The People’s Hospital details the stories of five … Continue reading
Fiction Days Presents Anne Berest
French writer Anne Berest will present a lecture on “Family Fictions: The Postcard, Gabriële, and Writing True Novels” at Boston College on April 23 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall 110. Berest’s novel The Postcard was a national bestseller, a … Continue reading
The Industrial Revolution as global environmental history
John McNeill, Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown, will present a talk on “The Industrial Revolution as Global Environmental History” at Boston College on April 2 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall 100. Recognized as a pioneer in the field of … Continue reading
Katherine McKittrick
Katherine McKittrick, a professor of gender studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, will present “A Poetics of Declension” at Boston College on March 19 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. McKittrick is … Continue reading
Reading Shakespeare to respond to illness
University of Calgary Professor Emeritus Arthur Frank, Professor II at VID Specialized University in Oslo and a visiting professor at Columbia University, will present “Polyphonic Suffering: Reading Shakespeare to Respond to Illness” at Boston College on March 12 at 7 … Continue reading
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