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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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Christian Appy: Vietnam War From All Sides

Tue, Apr 22, 2003

Christian Appy, associate professor of history at MIT and author of Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam, reflects on various American interpretations of the Vietnam War. Appy is introduced by Carlo Rotella, professor of English at Boston College.

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Frankenstein: Protestant, Catholic, Atheist

Wed, Feb 26, 2003

Judith Wilt explores Protestant and Catholic themes in the famous Gothic fable by atheist Mary Shelley. Wilt also reviews various critical views of Frankenstein, from the 1950s through the present day. Wilt is introduced by Dennis Taylor, editor, Journal of Religion and the Arts. **Judith Wilt** holds the Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture at Boston College.

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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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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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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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State of the Urban Environment

Wed, Jul 28, 2004

Delivering the Urban Ecology annual keynote address, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks about the importance of urban ecosystems in a healthy environment. He explains how the straining effects of suburban sprawl and urban populations threaten the economy, ecology, and public health in cities in New England.

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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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Shakespeare and the Bottom Line: Marketing Higher Ed

Mon, Oct 25, 2004

This talk from David L. Kirp, for the sixth annual Monan Lecture on Higher Education, shares its title with Kirp's recently published book. Kirp describes the conflict between the ways in which American universities are increasingly pressured to function as businesses within a competitive market, and their educational goals.

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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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