Resources for Teachers and Students
We are pleased to offer the following online resources to encourage teachers and students to enhance their engagement with the Lowell Humanities Series. We encourage you to adopt our speakers' most recent book as well as shorter essays and contextual material as part of your syllabi. Additionally, the resources below can be paired or used separately to fit a single class or a longer unit. These links allowÌýstudents to watch a Youtube video, orÌýread a short essayÌýor interview, before or after one of our events. Teachers might also consider usingÌýtheseÌýresources in conjunction with evening reflection activities,Ìýor opportunities for reviews/reports during or beyond class-time. For speakers book titles, please see theirÌýbios. Articles in academic journals are available to members of the Ïã½¶Ðã community through theÌýlibrary webpage.
Emilie Townes
Annual Candlemas Lecture: Emilie Townes: Facing (In)Justice with the Power of Hope
February 04, 2026
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews and Talks
Articles & Excerpts
Emilie Townes
Annual Candlemas Lecture: Emilie Townes: Facing (In)Justice with the Power of Hope
February 04, 2026
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews and Talks
Articles & Excerpts
Yiyun Li
Techniques and Idiosyncrasies
February 25, 2026
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews
Reviews
Articles
Excerpts
John Vaillant
Fire Weather
March 11, 2026
7 PM |ÌýGasson 100
Reviews
Articles & Excerpts
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Rogers Brubaker
Politics and Governance in the Digital Era: Between Populism and Technocracy
March 18, 2026
7 PM | Devlin 110
Interviews
Articles & Excerpts
Sherene Seikaly
From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine
March 25, 2026
7 PM |ÌýGasson 100
Interviews & Talks
Reviews
Articles & Excerpts
Margaret Burnham
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
April 8, 2026
7 PM |ÌýGasson 100
