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Christianity Can Relieve Tensions Over Race, Says Jennings
Willie Jennings, a theologian and professor at Yale Divinity School, gave Boston College鈥檚 annual Candlemas lecture on Thursday evening as part of the Lowell Humanities Series. Jennings focused on using Christianity to relieve racial tensions in America.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling novel, 鈥淭he Sympathizer,鈥� the story of a Communist double agent who moves to the United States. Last year Nguyen, who emigrated with his family from Vietnam when he was four, published his first collection of short stories, 鈥淭he Refugees.鈥澨�
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Andersen Discusses Evolution of Fake News in Post-Truth America
Kurt Andersen, a groundbreaking novelist, media entrepreneur, and public radio host, read selections from his new book Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History on Wednesday evening as part of the Lowell Humanities Series. In Fantasyland, Andersen explores the historical origins of the 鈥減ost-factual, fake news moment we鈥檙e all living through,鈥� arguing that truth-bending is something embedded in America鈥檚 national character.
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Quinones Outlines Effects of Increased Heroin Usage on Modern Society
Sam Quinones, former Los Angeles Times reporter and author, discussed America鈥檚 opiate epidemic on Wednesday evening as part of the Lowell Humanities Series. He spoke about Mexican drug trafficking and the recent push toward treating pain with narcotics, citing both as reasons for the increased use of heroin in the United States.
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NYU Tisch Professor Performs Excerpts from Recent Play
Actress, playwright, and New York University Tisch School of Arts professor Anna Deavere Smith took to the stage in Robsham Theater on Tuesday evening to perform excerpts from her most recent play, Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education. Acting out her one-woman show, Smith adopted the persona of the people she interviewed as she traveled to investigate the school-to-prison pipeline. 听
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Remembering Refugees鈥� Stories
Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Aerol Arnold Chair of English and professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, spoke on Wednesday evening as part of the Lowell Humanities Series. He has written numerous critically acclaimed books, including The Sympathizer, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, and The Refugees.
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'Caffeinated Frenzy:' Roz Chast Discusses Career as Cartoonist
There is humor in everyday life, and Roz Chast captures it perfectly. A cartoonist at the New Yorker since 1978, and recipient of the 2015 Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities, Chast spoke Wednesday evening about her latest work and becoming a cartoonist.听
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Structural Change Needed to Ease Eviction Burden on Those in Poverty, Desmond says听
Matthew Desmond hates poverty. And he wants students to hate it too. Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project, spoke Wednesday evening about the subject of his book,听Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
Lowell Humanities Fall Lineup
New York Times听bestselling author Matthew Desmond opens the Lowell Humanities Series Fall 2016 lineup at Boston College on September 21, 2016. Read about more about the fall 2016 lineup 禄
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A Writer of 'Timely and Universal' Subjects
Acclaimed and award-winning Ethiopian-American writer Dinaw Mengestu, whose works chronicle the African diaspora in America, will visit Boston College on April 8. Read about听Dinaw Mengestu visit to Boston College 禄
For Him, Writing a Matter of Passion
Dennis Lehane will offer his insights on writing and more at a campus appearance on March 11 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100, a Lowell Humanities Series event made possible by the Gerson Family Lecture Fund, established by John A. and Jean N. Gerson, P鈥�14.
His visit is timely: His new novel, World Gone By, will be in bookstores on March 10.. Read about Dennis Lehane's visit in the BC Chronicle 禄