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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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  • Crucial Endeavor: Catholic-Jewish Relations

    Wed, Nov 6, 2002
    German theologian Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, seeks to clarify the Church's position on several controversial issues. Among them, the Church's history of forced conversion of the Jews, and the contemporary debate over the proposed canonization of Pope Pius XII, accused by some of failing to oppose the Holocaust.
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  • Courage to Be Catholic: What Future?

    Tue, Dec 3, 2002
    George Weigel argues that the current crisis in the Church is the direct result of a post-Vatican II relaxation of traditional Catholic mores. This, in his view, has led to a "purple priesthood" dominated by active homosexuals and widespread renunciation by the laity of Catholicism's founding principles.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Wasted Day: The Necessary Art of Doing Nothing

    Thu, Feb 6, 2003
    Patricia Hampl, regents' professor at the University of Minnesota, explores "the necessary art of doing nothing."
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  • Meet the Poet: Robin Becker

    Thu, Feb 13, 2003
    Poet Robin Becker discusses her writing.
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  • H. L. Mencken: Confessions of a Believing Critic

    Wed, Jan 22, 2003
    Terry Teachout discusses his newest book, *The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken*, where he explores the life of one of the greatest literary journalists of the roaring twenties, and certainly one of the most controversial commentators of all time. **Terry Teachout**lives in Manhattan and is the drama critic of the *Wall Street Journal* and the music critic of *Commentary*. He also writes about the other arts, including books, ballet, painting and sculpture, film and TV, and "whatever happens to catch [his] eye or ear." He writes "Second City," a column about the arts in New York that appears in the *Washington Post* on the first Sunday of every month. His work also appears in *The New York Times*, *National Review*, and many other magazines and newspapers.
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  • Claim for Truth: Medieval Judaism and Christianity

    Thu, Feb 6, 2003
    Daniel J. Lasker, professor at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, talks about medieval Judaism and Christianity.
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  • Democracy and Catholicism in the 21st Century

    Fri, Mar 14, 2003
    Rutgers University political science professor W. Carey McWilliams discusses the future of Catholicism in America.
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