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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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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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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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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.”
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NEXT WEEK: @itscaitlinhd, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist covering immigration, joins the Lowell Humanities Series for a lecture entitled “Deported: The Price of Our Prosperity.”
WEDNESDAY: Poet and essayist @PhilipMetres joins the Lowell Humanities Series for a reading that includes his recent book Fugitive/Refuge, which follows the journey of his refugee ancestors.
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NEXT WEEK: Professor of ancient Greek political thought Melissa Lane joins the Lowell Humanities Series to discuss how Plato teaches ecological guardianship. This lecture is part of @BostonCollege’s conference Environmental Ethics in Dialogue.
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COMING SOON: Physician and professor of medicine @riconuila will discuss his debut book The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, which details the stories of five Houstonians unable to access healthcare in his hometown of Houston, TX,
TONIGHT: SOLD OUT! @jzsalvipoet joins the Lowell Humanities Series in conversation with Allison Adair (English). Join the livestream below ⬇️
THIS WEEK: English theologian Graham Ward joins the Lowell Humanities Series as part of @BosColTheology’s Annual Candlemas Lecture.
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TOMORROW (sold out): @edyong209 joins the Lowell Humanities Series, cosponsored by @BC_ParkStreet, @BCSchillerInst and the Program in Asian American Studies.
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🚨 THIS WEEK: @SyTheAuthor, naturalist and bestselling author, joins us to discuss her recent book “The Secrets of the Octopus,” a @NatGeo collaboration.
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