BC Lowell Humanities Series

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.

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: on.bc.edu/MBurnham_LHS

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. bcbookmarks.com/2026/03/23/mar…

Register here: lhs-margaretburnham.eventbrite.com

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.

.@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: on.bc.edu/SSeikaly_LHS

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.

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. bcbookmarks.com/2026/03/16/fro…

Register: lhs-shereneseikaly.eventbrite.com

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.

Author Rogers Brubaker will speak about digital hyperconnectivity at @BostonCollege on Mar. 18. @BCLowellHS bcbookmarks.com/2026/03/09/pol…

Register here: lhs-rogersbrubaker.eventbrite.com

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

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

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: on.bc.edu/JVaillant_LHS

.@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. bcbookmarks.com/2026/02/26/fir…

.@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. bcbookmarks.com/2026/02/26/fir…

Register here: lhs-johnvaillant.eventbrite.com

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.

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: on.bc.edu/YLI_LHS

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

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.”