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 allow students to watch a Youtube video, or read a short essay or interview, before or after one of our events. Teachers might also consider using these resources in conjunction with evening reflection activities, or opportunities for reviews/reports during or beyond class-time. For speakers book titles, please see their bios. Articles in academic journals are available to members of the BC community through the library webpage.
Mark Peterson
The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution
September 16, 2026
7 PM | Gasson Hall, 100
Interviews
- Princeton University Press: Mark Peterson on The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution
- YaleNews: Does the U.S. Constitution need a makeover?
- The Yale History Podcast: The City-State of Boston with Mark Peterson
Reviews
Mark Peterson
The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution
September 16, 2026
7 PM | Gasson Hall, 100
Interviews
- Princeton University Press: Mark Peterson on The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution
- YaleNews: Does the U.S. Constitution need a makeover?
- The Yale History Podcast: The City-State of Boston with Mark Peterson
Reviews
Jeremy Frey
An Evening with Jeremy Frey
September 30, 2026
7 PM | Devlin Hall, 110
Interviews
Reviews
- Architectural Digest: Jeremy Frey's Elaborate, Hand-Woven Baskets Keep Tradition Alive
- The New York Times: Baskets Holding the Identity of an Indigenous People
- Boston Art Review: At the Portland Museum of Art, Jeremy Frey’s Baskets Conjure the Past While Presenting a Warning for the Future
Excerpts
Emily Knox
Book Banning in the 21st Century
October 14, 2026
7 PM | Devlin Hall, 110
Interviews
- Raising Us: A Parenting Podcast: Why Kids Need Banned Books | Jason Reynolds and Dr. Emily Knox
- Borrowed & Banned (podcast): Battle of the Classics
- Slate: The Woman Who Wanted Beloved Banned From Schools Is Right About One Thing
Articles
Arline Geronimus
Weathering, Then and Now
October 21, 2026
7 PM | Gasson Hall, 100
Interviews
Reviews
- The New York Times: How ‘Weathering’ Contributes to Racial Health Disparities
- The New Yorker: The Case That Being Poor and Black Is Bad for Your Health
- The Guardian: How Discrimination Makes You Sick
Articles
Victoria Chang
Poetry Days Presents: An Evening with Victoria Chang
October 28, 2026
7 PM | Gasson Hall, 100
Interviews
- The New York Review of Books: Community Poetry
- The London Magazine: ‘I don’t go to poetry to feel better’: An Interview with Victoria Chang
- The Poetry Foundation, VS (podcast): Victoria Chang vs. Imagination
Reviews
- Literary Hub: The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is Reading Now, and Next
- Los Angeles Review of Books: On Looking: Barbie Chang and Victoria Chang’s Poetics of Female Spectacle
Excerpts
Kate Crawford
Atlas of AI
November 4, 2026
7 PM | Gasson Hall, 100
Interviews
- TIME: Kate Crawford: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023
- The Guardian: Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’
Reviews
- MIT Technology Review: Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.
- Nature: AI — The People and Places that Make, Use and Manage it
Articles
- The New York Times (video): A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
- Issues in Science and Technology: Generative AI Is a Crisis for Copyright Law
- The Wall Street Journal: Artificial Intelligence—With Very Real Biases
- The New York Times: Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem
