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.
Sarah Coakley
Annual Candlemas Lecture
"For Mine Eyes have Seen Thy Salvation": Spiritual Perception and the Works of Justice in Christian Tradition
February 5, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100
Reviews
- “On Desiring God: A New Take on Feminist Theology”
https://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/desiring-god-new-take-feminist-theology/ - “Review of Sarah Coakley, God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’” The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning
https://jsr.shanti.virginia.edu/back-issues/vol-17-no-1-august-2018-special-issue-on-re-enchantment-and-scriptural-reasoning/review-of-sarah-coakley-god-sexuality-and-the-self-an-essay-on-the-trinity/ - “God, Sexuality and the Self” Syndicate Network
https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/sarah-coakley-god-sexuality-and-the-self/ - “Sarah Coakley and the Future of Systematic Theology” Reading Religion
http://readingreligion.org/books/sarah-coakley-and-future-systematic-theology
Interviews:
- “An Interview with Sarah Coakley: Evolutionary Biology, Apologetics, and the Training of Theologians” https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/news/2019/an-interview-with-sarah-coakley--part-one--evolutionary-biology--apologetics--and-the-training-of-theologians
- “Prayer as Divine Propulsion: An Interview with Sarah Coakley, Part I” https://theotherjournal.com/2012/12/20/prayer-as-divine-propulsion-an-interview-with-sarah-coakley/
- “Sarah Coakley: Living prayer and leadership”
https://faithandleadership.com/qa/sarah-coakley-living-prayer-and-leadership
Videos:
- “Sarah Coakley—Do Religions Complement or Contradict?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qxgMpuHcRA - “Spiritual Perception & Contemporary Theology with Sarah Coakley”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov0V1bqjf3I - “Sin and Desire—Sarah Coakley”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgtHRRRpdcs - “A Theology of Desire with the Revd Dr Sarah Coakley”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxkHBKM4hMQ
Sarah Coakley
Annual Candlemas Lecture
"For Mine Eyes have Seen Thy Salvation": Spiritual Perception and the Works of Justice in Christian Tradition
February 5, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100
Reviews:
- “On Desiring God: A New Take on Feminist Theology”
https://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/desiring-god-new-take-feminist-theology/ - “Review of Sarah Coakley, God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’” The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning
https://jsr.shanti.virginia.edu/back-issues/vol-17-no-1-august-2018-special-issue-on-re-enchantment-and-scriptural-reasoning/review-of-sarah-coakley-god-sexuality-and-the-self-an-essay-on-the-trinity/ - “God, Sexuality and the Self” Syndicate Network
https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/sarah-coakley-god-sexuality-and-the-self/ - “Sarah Coakley and the Future of Systematic Theology” Reading Religion
http://readingreligion.org/books/sarah-coakley-and-future-systematic-theology
Interviews:
- “An Interview with Sarah Coakley: Evolutionary Biology, Apologetics, and the Training of Theologians” https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/news/2019/an-interview-with-sarah-coakley--part-one--evolutionary-biology--apologetics--and-the-training-of-theologians
- “Prayer as Divine Propulsion: An Interview with Sarah Coakley, Part I” https://theotherjournal.com/2012/12/20/prayer-as-divine-propulsion-an-interview-with-sarah-coakley/
- “Sarah Coakley: Living prayer and leadership”
https://faithandleadership.com/qa/sarah-coakley-living-prayer-and-leadership
Videos:
- “Sarah Coakley—Do Religions Complement or Contradict?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qxgMpuHcRA - “Spiritual Perception & Contemporary Theology with Sarah Coakley”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov0V1bqjf3I - “Sin and Desire—Sarah Coakley”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgtHRRRpdcs - “A Theology of Desire with the Revd Dr Sarah Coakley”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxkHBKM4hMQ
Amitav Ghosh
Embattled Earth: Commodities, Conflict and Climate Change in the Indian Ocean
February 12, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100
Reviews:
- “Amitav Ghosh: ‘The World of Fact is Outrunning the World of Fiction’” https://www.npr.org/2019/09/16/761257295/amitav-ghosh-the-world-of-fact-is-outrunning-the-world-of-fiction
- “Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh review: climate and culture in crisis”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/05/gun-island-amitav-ghosh-review - “Is Global Warming the 21st Century’s Black Death?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/books/review/gun-island-amitav-ghosh.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share - “With ‘Gun Island,’ Amitav Ghosh turns global crises into engaging fiction”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/with-gun-island-amitav-ghosh-turns-global-crises-into-engaging-fiction/2019/09/08/efe6b35e-d0ce-11e9-b29b-a528dc82154a_story.html - “Book Review: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh”
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/07/20/book-review-the-great-derangement-climate-change-and-the-unthinkable-by-amitav-ghosh/
Interviews:
- “Where’s the Great ‘Climate Change Novel’? A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh”
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/wheres-the-great-climate-change-novel-a-conversation-with-amitav-ghosh/ - “Amitav Ghosh: ‘There is now a vibrant literary world in India-it all began with Naipaul’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/23/amitav-ghosh-vibrant-literary-world-india-naipaul-interview - “‘My book is not an apocalyptic book at all. I guess I’m leaving hope as a possibility’: Amitav Ghosh”
https://scroll.in/article/927202/my-book-is-not-an-apocalyptic-book-at-all-i-guess-im-leaving-hope-as-a-possibility-amitav-ghosh - “On how climate change continues to turn fiction into reality”
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-amitav-ghosh-on-how-climate-change-continues-to-turn-fiction-into-reality/
Videos:
- “Amitav Ghosh-A Conversation on The Great Derangement”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOC-kRxGbhU
Mae Ngai
The Chinese Question, the Gold Rushes and Global Politics
February 26, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100
Interviews/Op-Eds:
- “Immigration’s Border Enforcement Myth”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/opinion/immigrations-border-enforcement-myth.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share - “Manufacturing illegality: An Interview with Mae Ngai”
https://fpif.org/manufacturing-illegality-an-interview-with-mae-ngai/
Reviews:
- “The Melting Pot” (Book Review-The Lucky Ones)
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/books/review/Tepper-t.html - “A Mixed Welcome” (Book Review-The Lucky Ones)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703946504575470252150532876
Videos:
- “UO Today with Mae Ngai” Oregon Humanities Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJk4QVS6c44 - “Mike Walter Interviews Mae M. Ngai” CGNT Global Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIEPRzn4Rk
Min Jin Lee
Pachinko
March 25, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100
Reviews:
- “Culture Clash, Survival And Hope In ‘Pachinko’”
https://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/512910187/culture-clash-survival-and-hope-in-pachinko - “July Book Club Pick: ‘Pachinko,’ by Min Jin Lee”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/books/review/pachinko-min-jin-lee.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share - “Pachinko by Min Jin Lee review-rich story of the immigrant experience”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/15/pachinko-min-jin-lee-review - “Pachinko review: a masterpiece of empathy, integrity and family loyalty”
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/pachinko-review-a-masterpiece-of-empathy-integrity-and-family-loyalty-1.3165406 - “‘Pachinko’ author Min Jin Lee on how Japan’s ethnic Koreans keep beating the odds”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/03/04/books/book-reviews/pachinko-author-min-jin-lee-japans-ethnic-koreans-keep-beating-odds/#.XgIttS9MG-o
Interviews:
- “What Writers Can Take Away From the Bible”
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/min-jin-lee-by-heart/548810/ - “Min Jin Lee: ‘History has failed almost everybody who is ordinary’”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/02/min-jin-lee-interview-frederick-douglass-200 - “Doing it Wrong: An Interview with Min Jin Lee”
https://www.sampsoniaway.org/literary-voices/2018/06/21/doing-it-wrong-an-interview-with-min-jin-lee/ - “We Are Family: An Interview with Min Jin Lee”
https://aaww.org/we-are-family-an-interview-with-min-jin-lee/ - “Min Jin Lee: Finding Story Ideas That Truly Provoke Your Passions”
https://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/writers-perspective/off-the-page-author-interview-series/pachinko-author-min-jin-lee-talks-finding-story-ideas-that-truly-provoke-your-passions
Op-Eds/Writing Excerpts:
- “Breaking My Own Silence”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/opinion/confidence-public-speaking.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share - “Motherland”
https://www.minjinlee.com/writing/2007-03-01-motherland/ - Excerpt from ‘Pachinko’
http://www.bu.edu/khc/files/2019/01/PACHINKO-excerpt-KHC-1.pdf
Videos:
- “Min Jin Lee: 2018 National Book Festival”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b-q6bRpwHs - “Writers Speak|Min Jin Lee in conversation with Claire Messud” Harvard University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH3vgL4lDCQ
Claudia Rankine
Citizen: An American Lyric
April 1, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Murray Function Room, Yawkey Center
Reviews:
- “Reconsidering Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. A Symposium, Part I”
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reconsidering-claudia-rankines-citizen-an-american-lyric-a-symposium-part-i/ - “Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/claudia-rankines-citizen.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share - “Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine review-the ugly truth of racism”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/30/claudia-rankine-citizen-american-lyric-review - “Color Codes”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/color-codes - “Book Review: ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’”
https://www.npr.org/2014/11/20/365516416/book-review-citizen-an-american-lyric
Interviews:
- “Interview With Claudia Rankine”
http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-claudia-rankine/ - “In ‘Citizen,’ Poet Strips Bare The Realities Of Everyday Racism”
https://www.npr.org/2015/01/03/374574142/in-citizen-poet-strips-bare-the-realities-of-everyday-racism - “An Interview with Claudia Rankine”
https://www.triquarterly.org/issues/issue-150/interview-claudia-rankine - “Claudia Rankine: ‘Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people’”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/27/claudia-rankine-poet-citizen-american-lyric-feature - “Claudia Rankine: why I’m spending $625,000 to study whiteness”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/19/claudia-rankine-macarthur-genius-grant-exploring-whiteness
Public Intellectualism/Op-Eds:
- “I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their White Privilege. So I Asked.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/magazine/white-men-privilege.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share - “The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning”
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/magazine/the-condition-of-black-life-is-one-of-mourning.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Videos:
- “Situations by john lucas & claudia rankine on Vimeo”
https://vimeo.com/channels/situations - “Claudia Rankine on Citizen: An American Lyric- 2015 L.A. Times Festival of Books” Detroit Public TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upCFbREUvtk - “Claudia Rankine: How Art Teaches a Poet to See” International Festival of Arts & Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sbPwNN09n8
Ada Limón
The Carrying
April 22, 2020
7:00 p.m. • Devlin Hall, Room 101
Reviews:
- “Review: The Carrying by Ada Limón” Los Angeles Review
http://losangelesreview.org/review-carrying-ada-limon/ - “[Review] The Carrying by Ada Limón” Pank Magazine
https://pankmagazine.com/2018/09/04/review-carrying-ada-limon/ - “The Carrying by Ada Limón review—from the heart, unvarnished” The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/19/ada-limon-the-carrying-poetry-review - “‘The Carrying’ Is Ada Limón’s Most Personal Poetry Yet” Chicago Review of Books
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2018/08/16/the-carrying-ada-limon-review/ - “On The Environmental Gaze & Writing Big: A Review of Ada Limón’s ‘The Carrying’” The Adroit Journal
https://theadroitjournal.org/2019/03/12/on-the-environmental-gaze-writing-big-a-review-of-ada-limons-the-carrying/
Interviews:
- “The Word Process: An Interview with Ada Limón” Columbia Journal
http://columbiajournal.org/the-word-process-an-interview-with-ada-limon/ - “Ada Limón: Connected to the Universe” Guernica
https://www.guernicamag.com/ada-limon-connected-to-the-universe/ - “Ada Limón on Kanye West, Womanhood, Truth in Poetry, and More” LitHub
https://lithub.com/ada-limon-on-kanye-west-womanhood-truth-in-poetry-and-more/ - “A Conversation with Ada Limón” The Adroit Journal
https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-fourteen-ada-limon/ - “Ada Limon On Poetry Collection, ‘The Carrying’” NPR
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/19/639997901/ada-limon-on-poetry-collection-the-carrying - “A Conversation with Ada Limon author of THE CARRYING published by Milkweed Editions” Cleaver
https://www.cleavermagazine.com/a-conversation-with-ada-limon-author-of-the-carrying-interview-by-grant-clauser/ - “On being a gateway drug for poetry” The Creative Independent
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/ada-limon-on-being-a-gateway-drug-for-poetry/ - “Trust Poetry: Ada Limón Interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc” Bomb Magazine
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/ada-limón/
Selected Writings:
- “Poem: PREY- The New York Times”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/magazine/poem-prey.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share - “Overpass” The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/04/overpass - “The Carrying” Poets.org
https://poets.org/poem/carrying - Ada Limón|Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ada-limon
Videos:
- “Ada Limon on ‘The Carrying’ at the 2019 AWP Book Fair” PBS Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkZK4h-DS2k