Category Archives: Lowell Humanities Series
“Long Emergency”
Author and social critic James Howard Kunstler will present “The Long Emergency” on Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Kunstler’s best-selling book, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes … Continue reading
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Tagged environmental issues, urban planning
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of the best-selling Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015)–a National Book Award finalist and one of the most talked about books in the United States this year–will speak on Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. in Gasson … Continue reading
Poet David Ferry
Award-winning poet David Ferry will give a reading on Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. Among Ferry’s books of poetry are Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (winner of the National Book Award for Poetry) and On This … Continue reading
Edwidge Danticat
In collaboration with Fiction Days, the Lowell Humanities Series presents award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Murray Room of Yawkey Center. Her appearance is part of a three-day residency at BC. Danticat, a native of … Continue reading
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Life on 6th Street
Sociologist Alice Goffman, author of On The Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (The University of Chicago Press, 2014), will speak on Sept. 8 at 7:00 p.m. in Devlin Hall, 101. Listed among the best nonfiction books of 2014 by Publisher’s … Continue reading
Sheri Fink
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink will talk about her best-selling book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Random House/Crown, 2013), at Boston College on Apr. 13 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. The culmination of six years … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, natural disaster, New Orleans, nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize winner
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Historian Ira Berlin
Historian Ira Berlin, a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland, will present “Rethinking the Demise of Slavery in The United States” on Mar. 25 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Berlin is a leading historian of America and … Continue reading
Dennis Lehane
The Lowell Humanities Series and Gerson Family Lecture Fund present an evening with Boston native and award-winning author Dennis Lehane on March 11 beginning at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Lehane is the author of several international best sellers, three … Continue reading
“Genius” in the house
MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner Alison Bechdel will give a talk at 7 p.m. on Feb. 11 in Gasson Hall, room 100 under the sponsorship of the Lowell Humanities Series. Bechdel is a cartoonist best known for her comic strip “Dykes To Watch Out … Continue reading
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Tagged cartoonist, MacArthur Grant, memoir
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Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink will talk about her best-selling book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Random House/Crown, 2013), at Boston College on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. The culmination of six … Continue reading
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