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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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  • Shakespeare and the Bottom Line: Marketing Higher Ed

    Mon, Oct 25, 2004
    This talk from David L. Kirp, for the sixth annual Monan Lecture on Higher Education, shares its title with Kirp's recently published book. Kirp describes the conflict between the ways in which American universities are increasingly pressured to function as businesses within a competitive market, and their educational goals.
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  • Presidential Reputations II

    Sat, Nov 20, 2004
    Marking the 30th anniversary of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, noted journalists and scholars, nearly all of whom have written books about American presidents, gather for three panel discussions on the shifting fortunes of presidential reputations. The third and final panel, 'The President and His Enemies,' features Joyce Appleby, professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Los Angeles; Pulitzer Prizewinning historian James MacGregor Burns; and John Dean, former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon. The moderator is David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
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  • Passing in Boston: The Story of the Healy Family

    Wed, Dec 4, 2002
    Boston College history professor, James O'Toole discusses his newest book Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920, which documents the extraordinary life of the Healy brothers of Boston. In the mid-1800's, the Healy brothers of Boston, James, Patrick, and Sherwood, looked like the picture of Catholic success. James was bishop of Portland, Maine; Patrick, president of Georgetown University; and Sherwood, chief supervisor of the building of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. The Healy's were not typical members of the Boston Catholic elite, but the children of a multiracial slave couple from Georgia.
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Daily Crisis: Developing Value-Based Companies

    Wed, Jun 11, 2003
    Harry M. Kraemer, president and CEO of Baxter International Inc., discusses the crisis of values that CEOs and leaders of companies deal with every day in the workplace, and also offers insight on how companies can develop value-based organizations. Kraemer has been with Baxter for 22 years and was elected CEO in 1999. Kraemer is introduced by Orit Gadiesh, Chairman of Bain & Company.
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