BC Lowell Humanities Series

Bringing distinguished writers, artists, performers, and scholars to Boston College since 1957.

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NEXT WEEK: Lawyer and legal scholar Margaret Burnham discusses her acclaimed book By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, an account of the everyday violence of white supremacy, the legal structures that allow it, and Black resistance before the civil rights movement.

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Renowned legal scholar, civil rights advocate, and former judge Margaret Burnham joins @BCLowellHS on Wednesday. She is the founder of @NUSL’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and author of "By Hands Now Known."

Learn More & Register: https://t.co/3w2ACvkbUd

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On April 8, @BostonCollege will host legal scholar Margaret A. Burnham who will talk about her acclaimed book 'By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.' Registration required. https://t.co/Pgrn6oNTqW

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Register here: https://t.co/DBebj6P27E

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NEXT WEEK: Lawyer and legal scholar Margaret Burnham discusses her acclaimed book By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, an account of the everyday violence of white supremacy, the legal structures that allow it, and Black resistance before the civil rights movement.

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.@BCLowellHS welcomes @ShereneSeikaly, Director of @UCSB's Center for Middle Eastern Studies & History Professor, to discuss her new book, which tells a global history of capital, slavery, and dispossession.

More Information & Register: https://t.co/jyEMZ9M1n6

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Historian Sherene Seikaly will present a talk on her book project at @BostonCollege on March 25. Through the story of her great grandfather, Seikaly places Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery & dispossession. Registration required.

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Historian Sherene Seikaly will present a talk on her book project at @BostonCollege on March 25. Through the story of her great grandfather, Seikaly places Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery & dispossession. Registration required. https://t.co/ksnrqcBS15

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Register: https://t.co/LPfjevkBp5

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NEXT WEEK: Historian @shereneseikaly follows a Palestinian man who was at once a colonial officer and a colonized subject, a figure whose trajectory from Baltimore to Beirut shows that neat divisions between colonized and colonizer fail to capture real life experiences.

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Author Rogers Brubaker will speak about digital hyperconnectivity at @BostonCollege on Mar. 18. @BCLowellHS https://t.co/LoWKyKrA6e

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Register here: https://t.co/eOZL8xfzo2

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NEXT WEEK: Sociologist Rogers Brubaker discusses the possibilities for democratic governance in a hyperconnected world of digital communication.

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TONIGHT!
Why are petrochemical and metals producers in seven countries declaring force majeure?
Because everything is connected - to #Fire. #Iran

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Author and writer @JohnVaillant, whose work explores collisions between human ambition and the natural world, will speak on the Heights on Wednesday as part of @BCLowellHS. His book "Fire Weather" was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Learn More & Register: https://t.co/EoSmMXvISB

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.@BostonCollege will host @JohnVaillant, author of 'Fire Weather,' on March 11. A finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, his book is an exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind. https://t.co/xEt1ePQvv1

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.@BostonCollege will host @JohnVaillant, author of 'Fire Weather,' on March 11. His book, a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, is a stunning account of the Fort McMurray wildfire in Alberta, Canada. https://t.co/xEt1ePQvv1

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Register here: https://t.co/CdBPI3KUT4

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NEXT WEEK: @JohnVaillant joins the Lowell Humanities Series to discuss his work on wildfires in the context of climate change and North America’s oil and gas industries.

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WEDNESDAY ➡️ @BCLowellHS welcomes author Yiyun Li to BC.

The author of 11 books, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and winner of many awards, Li is a @Princeton professor and the Creative Writing Program Director.

Learn More & Register: https://t.co/HkUZEwcFSz

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A limited number of seats will be available on a first-come basis.

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SOLD OUT: Acclaimed novelist, essayist, and story writer Yiyun Li, author of recent memoir ‘Things in Nature Merely Grow,’ joins the Lowell Humanities Series for a lecture entitled “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies.”