“There is nothing like an author reading from his or her own works,” said Francis Sweeney, SJ, who founded the Boston College Humanities Series in 1957. Since then, generations of Boston College students and faculty, as well as the general public, have attended programs featuring the world’s great writers, artists, performers, and thinkers. Speakers have included Robert Frost, Margaret Mead, T.S. Eliot, Maya Angelou, Robert Penn Warren, Lillian Hellman, Joyce Carol Oates, and other Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. Beginning in 1978, with the support of the Lowell Foundation, the series was named the “Lowell Humanities Series.”

The series is administered by David Quigley, Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences, who may be contacted at david.quigley.1@bc.edu; 617-552-2390.

Many past Lowell Humanities Series events are available for viewing via the Web at Boston College Front Row, www.bc.edu/frontrow.