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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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  • 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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  • Meet the Poet: Robin Becker

    Thu, Feb 13, 2003
    Poet Robin Becker discusses her writing.
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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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  • 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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  • Religion and Faith-Based Initiatives in Urban Communities

    Tue, Oct 21, 2003
    Former Indianapolis mayor Stephen Goldsmith, special advisor to President Bush on faith-based and not-for-profit initiatives, keynotes a panel discussion on the role of religion in American cities. The panel also includes Boston College political science professor Marc Landy, Thomas Massaro, of the Weston School of Theology, and Lynch School of Education Interim Dean Joseph O'Keefe. Boston College political science professor Alan Wolfe, director of the Boisi Center, moderates. Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Joseph Quinn, provides the introduction.
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  • Homosexuality in a Catholic Context

    Mon, Apr 28, 2003
    Authors Andrew Sullivan and David Morrison discuss homosexuality in Catholic culture. Sullivan argues that there is no scriptural substantiation for the Church's stance against homosexuality, while Morrison promotes chastity for those who are attracted to persons of the same sex. The program is introduced by Joseph Appleyard, vice president for University mission and ministry at Boston College.
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  • Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Carrigan Report

    Mon, Sep 22, 2003
    Professor James Smith of Boston College's English department discusses the beginnings of an "architecture of containment" in Ireland, constructed to silence those whose sexual behavior or family circumstances contradicted an emerging image of Irish Catholic identity. James O'Toole, history professor at Boston College, responds. This talk is the second in the series "Ireland Before the Republic: Culture and Politics 1922-1949." Smith is introduced by Robin Lydenberg, English professor at Boston College.
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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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  • 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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