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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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  • Presidential Reputations I

    Sat, Nov 20, 2004
    Marking the 30th anniversary of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, noted journalists and scholars, nearly all of whom have written books about American presidents, gather for three panel discussions on the shifting fortunes of presidential reputations. Panel one, 'The Press and the Presidency', includes Jack Beatty, a senior editor at the Atlantic Monthly; Kathleen Dalton, an associate fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University; and presidential biographer and prize-winning journalist Tom Wicker. The panel is moderated by Ellen Hume, a former White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, who now directs the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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  • Presidential Reputations II

    Sat, Nov 20, 2004
    Marking the 30th anniversary of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, noted journalists and scholars, nearly all of whom have written books about American presidents, gather for three panel discussions on the shifting fortunes of presidential reputations. The third and final panel, 'The President and His Enemies,' features Joyce Appleby, professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Los Angeles; Pulitzer Prizewinning historian James MacGregor Burns; and John Dean, former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon. The moderator is David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
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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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  • Songs of Yeats, Joyce, O'Casey, Behan, and Kavanagh

    Sat, Oct 30, 2004
    Dublin balladeer Danny Doyle performs songs written by Kavanagh and other key Irish poets.This performance is part of a two-day centenary conference on the legacy of Patrick Kavanagh, a pivotal and popular figure in modern Irish poetry. A member of the Irish folk revival movement, Doyle began recording music in 1966. Doyle is introduced by Ann Morrison Spinney of Boston College's music department and Irish studies program.
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  • Log Cabin Republicans

    Wed, Apr 21, 2004
    Patrick Guerriero discusses the experience of being Republican and gay, and outlines his perspective on the movement for gay and lesbian civil rights. The Log Cabin Republicans recently broke with President Bush in opposition to a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
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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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  • Meet the Poet: Robin Becker

    Thu, Feb 13, 2003
    Poet Robin Becker discusses her writing.
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  • Covenant Violated, Covenant Restored

    Thu, Apr 3, 2003
    Jon Levenson, the Albert A. List professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School, focuses on the tension between the theological aspects of the flawed members of the Catholic Church and the holy community of people protected by God's promises. He is a specialist in the literary and theological dimensions of the Hebrew Bible. Levenson is the author of nine books, including *Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible* and *Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence*. Levenson is introduced by Fred Lawrence, director of the Lonergan Workshop, and Ben Birnbaum, editor, *Boston College Magazine*.
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  • Daily Crisis: Developing Value-Based Companies

    Wed, Jun 11, 2003
    Harry M. Kraemer, president and CEO of Baxter International Inc., discusses the crisis of values that CEOs and leaders of companies deal with every day in the workplace, and also offers insight on how companies can develop value-based organizations. Kraemer has been with Baxter for 22 years and was elected CEO in 1999. Kraemer is introduced by Orit Gadiesh, Chairman of Bain & Company.
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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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