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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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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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Wasted Day: The Necessary Art of Doing Nothing

Thu, Feb 6, 2003

Patricia Hampl, regents' professor at the University of Minnesota, explores "the necessary art of doing nothing."

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Meet the Poet: Robin Becker

Thu, Feb 13, 2003

Poet Robin Becker discusses her writing.

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H. L. Mencken: Confessions of a Believing Critic

Wed, Jan 22, 2003

Terry Teachout discusses his newest book, *The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken*, where he explores the life of one of the greatest literary journalists of the roaring twenties, and certainly one of the most controversial commentators of all time. **Terry Teachout**lives in Manhattan and is the drama critic of the *Wall Street Journal* and the music critic of *Commentary*. He also writes about the other arts, including books, ballet, painting and sculpture, film and TV, and "whatever happens to catch [his] eye or ear." He writes "Second City," a column about the arts in New York that appears in the *Washington Post* on the first Sunday of every month. His work also appears in *The New York Times*, *National Review*, and many other magazines and newspapers.

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Claim for Truth: Medieval Judaism and Christianity

Thu, Feb 6, 2003

Daniel J. Lasker, professor at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, talks about medieval Judaism and Christianity.

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Democracy and Catholicism in the 21st Century

Fri, Mar 14, 2003

Rutgers University political science professor W. Carey McWilliams discusses the future of Catholicism in America.

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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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