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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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  • Noam Chomsky: Language and Other Cognitive Processes

    Fri, Nov 11, 2011
    The nature of human language is still not completely understood. How do infants learn language? How does it fit in with other cognitive processes? Noam Chomsky, noted linguist, philosopher, and social critic explores the complexities of language and its study.
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  • How Poets and Novelists Came to Comfort the Faithful and Strengthen Doubters

    Wed, Nov 16, 2011
    Alan Jacobs, professor of English at Wheaton College, and Judith Wilt, the Newton College Alumnae Professor Emerita, discuss the role of literature in sustaining religious belief. It is not uncommon for modern American Christians to say that writers such as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, T. S. Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and many others, have served as spiritual anchors, fulfilling a need not always met by pastors and theologians. Is this a recent development, and how did this state of affairs arise? What does its existence suggest about the condition of American religious belief and the role of literature in sustaining it? And, is this good or bad news for Christianity?
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  • John Palfrey: Open Access Week Symposium

    Thu, Oct 27, 2011
    "John Palfrey, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, delivers the keynote address at the Open Access Symposium. Open Access literature is digital, online, free to access, and free of most copyright restrictions. Palfrey argues that Open Access allows universities to share their research and make it more wildly available to the general public -- information that would otherwise only be available through paid scholarly journals."
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  • Andrew Sofer Reads from Wave

    Tue, Oct 25, 2011
    Andrew Sofer, associate professor of English at Boston College, reads from *Wave*, his recently published book of poems. Introduced by Maxim D. Shrayer, Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies.
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  • Dubravka Ugresic: Nostalgia, Ostalgia, and Memory Stick

    Thu, Oct 13, 2011
    Croatian-born author Dubravka Ugresic talks about her life during Communist rule in Eastern Europe, 20 years after its collapse. She discusses how we become "archivists of our own lives" and whether the treatment of the past is different in post-Communist countries.
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  • Passing in Boston: The Story of the Healy Family

    Wed, Dec 4, 2002
    Boston College history professor, James O'Toole discusses his newest book Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920, which documents the extraordinary life of the Healy brothers of Boston. In the mid-1800's, the Healy brothers of Boston, James, Patrick, and Sherwood, looked like the picture of Catholic success. James was bishop of Portland, Maine; Patrick, president of Georgetown University; and Sherwood, chief supervisor of the building of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. The Healy's were not typical members of the Boston Catholic elite, but the children of a multiracial slave couple from Georgia.
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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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  • Paul Reville: Tenth Annual Lynch School of Education Symposium Series

    Thu, Oct 22, 2009
    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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  • Federica Anichini: Lectura Dantis: Paradiso IV

    Mon, May 11, 2009
    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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  • Paul Breines: The Last Lecture Series

    Mon, Apr 6, 2009
    Paul Breines, associate professor of history, discusses the experience of being an atheist, a Jew, and a bisexual as a faculty member at Boston College, a Catholic institution. The lecture is part of the “Last Lecture Series,” in which, a distinguished faculty member addresses the question: “If you had the chance to give the last lecture of your life, what would you say?”
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