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

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

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, Professor, Creative Writing, Lewis Center for the Arts, News South, teaching a course.

Yiyun Li

Techniques and Idiosyncrasies
February 25, 2026
7 PM | Gasson 100

Interviews

Reviews

Articles

Excerpts

John Vaillant

John Vaillant

Fire Weather
March 11, 2026
7 PM |ÌýGasson 100

Reviews

Articles & Excerpts

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Rogers Brubaker

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

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

Margaret Burnham

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
April 8, 2026
7 PM |ÌýGasson 100

Articles

Interviews & Talks

Reviews

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