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Boston College is a coeducational university with undergraduate and graduate students hailing from every state and more than 95 countries. Founded in 1863, it is one of the oldest Jesuit, Catholic universities in the United States.

Since its founding in 1957, the Lowell Humanities Series has brought distinguished writers, artists, performers, and scholars to Boston College. Follow the series on Twitter at @BCLowellHS .

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    Liz McCartney: Lessons Learned from Katrina

    Wed, Oct 21, 2009
    Liz McCartney, co-founder of St. Bernard Project, a not-for-profit organization devoted to rebuilding homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, discusses some of the lessons she has learned about effective leadership. For her work in New Orleans' St. Bernard Parish, McCartney was recognized as CNN's 2008 “Hero of the Year” and received the 2009 Ignatian Award from the Boston College Alumni Association.
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  • Paul Breines: The Last Lecture Series

    Mon, Apr 6, 2009
    Paul Breines, associate professor of history, discusses the experience of being an atheist, a Jew, and a bisexual as a faculty member at Boston College, a Catholic institution. The lecture is part of the “Last Lecture Series,” in which, a distinguished faculty member addresses the question: “If you had the chance to give the last lecture of your life, what would you say?”
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  • Maxim Shrayer: Yom Kippur in Amsterdam

    Wed, Nov 11, 2009
    Maxim D. Shrayer, professor of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at Boston College and the winner of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, discusses his new collection of short stories *Yom Kippur in Amsterdam*.
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  • Ann Marie Mires: Forensic Applications in Anthropology

    Wed, Nov 4, 2009
    Ann Marie Mires teaches at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts, and also at Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She discusses the field of forensics, relating it both to analysis of ancient human remains as well as its application to current crime investigations.
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  • Patrick McCloskey: The Street Stops Here

    Thu, Oct 29, 2009
    Author Patrick McCloskey talks with Ben Birnbaum, editor of *Boston College Magazine*, about his book *The Street Stops Here* (University of California Press, 2009), a critically acclaimed account of a year at a Catholic high school in Harlem. McCloskey is an accomplished journalist, a senior fellow at the Statistical Assessment Service, and a senior consulting partner at Julius Capital Partners.
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  • Noam Chomsky: Hospitality and Hostility in World Politics

    Wed, Apr 22, 2009
    Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT, is the featured panelist in this event, moderated by Richard Kearney, professor of philosophy, with responses by Ali Banuazizi, professor of political science, and Stephen Pfohl, professor of sociology.
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  • Uwem Akpan: Say You're One of Them

    Thu, Nov 12, 2009
    Uwem Akpan, Nigerian Jesuit priest and author of the New York Times bestseller *Say You're One of Them*, reads from his book and discusses the intersection in his life between spirituality and art.
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  • German Expressionist Poetry, Identity and Clothing

    Fri, Nov 1, 2002
    As part of *Reclaiming a Lost Generation*, Boston College German Studies professor Rachel Freudenburg delivers this reading of German Expressionist poetry and offers insights into its symbolic imagery.
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  • Centrality of Respect in Culture and Learning

    Thu, Oct 24, 2002
    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot discusses her book Respect: An Exploration.
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  • Catholic Tradition: Revision or Conservatism?

    Wed, Oct 30, 2002
    Catholic philosopher and historian Garry Wills argues that revision, not conservatism, is the historical norm of the Roman Catholic Church. Catholic theological responses to the sexual abuse crisis are split into two main camps: the traditionalist, which claims that a return to pre-Vatican II values will purge the Church of its "modern" problems, and the revisionist, which sees the crisis as symptomatic of deeper institutional ills and calls for further loosening and modernization of canon law. Wills is a leading figure in the latter camp.
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