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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • State of the Urban Environment

    Wed, Jul 28, 2004
    Delivering the Urban Ecology annual keynote address, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks about the importance of urban ecosystems in a healthy environment. He explains how the straining effects of suburban sprawl and urban populations threaten the economy, ecology, and public health in cities in New England.
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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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