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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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  • Author Patrick McCloskey talks with Ben Birnbaum, editor of *Boston College Magazine*, about his book *The Street Stops Here* (University of California Press, 2009), a critically acclaimed account of a year at a Catholic high school in Harlem. McCloskey is an accomplished journalist, a senior fellow at the Statistical Assessment Service, and a senior consulting partner at Julius Capital Partners.
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    Boston College
  • Readiness for college was the theme of the Lynch School of Education's tenth annual symposium. Dean Joseph O'Keefe, SJ, introduces the program. Following the presentation of the school's annual teaching award and introductory remarks by provost Cutberto Garza, Paul Reville, Massachusetts secretary of education, discussed the topic of readiness for college “from the standpoint of educational policy.”
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    Boston College
  • Lectura Dantis, a public reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, presents “Paradiso IV” with Federica Anichini, assistant professor of Italian Language and Literature at Smith College. The discussion of the text is in English; the reading from the Divine Comedy is in Italian. This program is part of an ongoing public reading of the Divine Comedy organized by the Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Center for Italian Culture in Newton, Massachusetts.
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    Boston College
  • Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT, is the featured panelist in this event, moderated by Richard Kearney, professor of philosophy, with responses by Ali Banuazizi, professor of political science, and Stephen Pfohl, professor of sociology.
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    Boston College