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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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  • Alan Keyes on the Challenge of Gay Marriage

    Tue, Mar 9, 2004
    Alan Keyes, former US representative to the United Nations, and two-time candidate for the Republican nomination for president, offers an argument in opposition to gay marriage. Keyes bases his argument on a biblically-derived Christian understanding of marriage as sacrament, and a social understanding of heterosexual marriage as a necessary foundation for society. Keyes is introduced by Luke Howe, a UGBC executive and a sophomore in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. This lecture is sponsored by the Undergraduate Government of Boston College and the College Republicans of Boston College
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  • Meet the Poet: Naomi Shihab Nye

    Mon, Feb 9, 2004
    Naomi Shihab Nye, award-winning author of poetry for adults and children, reads from her work, which includes 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, Fuel, and Red Suitcase. Nye is introduced by Susan Roberts of the Boston College English department.
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  • Is America a Christian Nation?

    Fri, Feb 6, 2004
    Hugh Heclo, the Clarence J. Robinson professor of public affairs at George Mason University, discusses the role of Christianity in American law, public institutions, and culture. Boston College professor of political science Dennis Hale provides the introduction.
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  • Christian Appy: Vietnam War From All Sides

    Tue, Apr 22, 2003
    Christian Appy, associate professor of history at MIT and author of Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam, reflects on various American interpretations of the Vietnam War. Appy is introduced by Carlo Rotella, professor of English at Boston College.
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  • Frankenstein: Protestant, Catholic, Atheist

    Wed, Feb 26, 2003
    Judith Wilt explores Protestant and Catholic themes in the famous Gothic fable by atheist Mary Shelley. Wilt also reviews various critical views of Frankenstein, from the 1950s through the present day. Wilt is introduced by Dennis Taylor, editor, Journal of Religion and the Arts. **Judith Wilt** holds the Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture at Boston College.
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  • Evil: The Artist's Response

    Tue, Nov 27, 2001
    A panel of artists engages in a discussion about about how artists respond to evil. This discussion is the second annual dialogue on Belief and Nonbelief in Modern American Culture, sponsored by Boston College and the Atlantic Monthly. The series is modeled after the annual "Chair of the Nonbeliever", sponsored by the archbishop, Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini of Milan. It is Martini's contention that "there is evil in each of us; whatever our religion, even in a bishop; a believer and a nonbeliever." The series invites philosophers, authors, psychiatrists, politicians, and artists to talk about their work through the prisms of belief and nonbelief.
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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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  • Religious Imagery in Navajo Textiles

    Thu, Nov 7, 2002
    Rebecca Vallette, professor of Romance languages at Boston College and an avid scholar of Navajo weavings, explains that the seemingly abstract designs in Navajo textiles are, in fact, religious symbols imbued with specific meanings. These textiles are known, to many, for their bold and repeated geometric patterns.
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  • Boxers and Bluesmen: Revivalists from the Rust Belt

    Tue, Nov 12, 2002
    Boston College English professor Carlo Rotella discusses his book *Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt*, an exploration of cultural change in the working-class heart of the northeast and midwest. Visiting women boxers in Erie, bluesmen in Chicago, cops and crime writers in New York, and urban revivalists in Brockton, Rotella uncovers "what has been lost and gained in the long, slow aging-out of the industrial city."
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  • Songs of Yeats, Joyce, O'Casey, Behan, and Kavanagh

    Sat, Oct 30, 2004
    Dublin balladeer Danny Doyle performs songs written by Kavanagh and other key Irish poets.This performance is part of a two-day centenary conference on the legacy of Patrick Kavanagh, a pivotal and popular figure in modern Irish poetry. A member of the Irish folk revival movement, Doyle began recording music in 1966. Doyle is introduced by Ann Morrison Spinney of Boston College's music department and Irish studies program.
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