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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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  • 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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  • Patrick McCloskey: The Street Stops Here

    Thu, Oct 29, 2009
    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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  • 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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  • Noam Chomsky: Hospitality and Hostility in World Politics

    Wed, Apr 22, 2009
    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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