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听students to watch a Youtube video, or听read a short essay听or interview, before or after one of our events. Teachers might also consider using听these听resources in conjunction with evening reflection activities,听or opportunities for reviews/reports during or beyond class-time. For speakers book titles, please see their听bios. Articles in academic journals are available to members of the 蜜桃传媒 community through the听library webpage.
Graham Ward
鈥淟oneliness: A Theological Appraisal鈥�
February 5, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews
- The Other Journal: The Academy, the Polis, and the Resurgence of Religion: An Interview with Graham Ward听
- For the Life of the World (podcast): Restlessness, Christ, and Belonging听,听
- European Academy on Religion and Society: Through the apocalypse: Graham Ward on religion鈥檚 future in the wake of migration听
Ed Yong
鈥淲hat Pandemics Teach Us鈥�
January 29, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews and Talks
- Here鈥檚 Where it Gets Interesting with Sharon McMahon (podcast): An Immense World with Ed Yong听
- Outside/In (podcast): Ed Yong and The Spoonbill Club听
- Audubon: A New Birding Club Wants to Help COVID Long-Haulers Safely Enjoy Nature Together听
- TED (video): Suicidal wasps, zombie roaches and other parasite tales听
Reviews
- The Guardian: The astonishing ways in which animals experience our planet听
Articles
- The New York Times: When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place听
- The Atlantic: Fatigue Can Shatter a Person听
- The Atlantic: Long COVID Is Being Erased鈥擜gain听
Graham Ward
鈥淟oneliness: A Theological Appraisal鈥�
February 5, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews
- The Other Journal: The Academy, the Polis, and the Resurgence of Religion: An Interview with Graham Ward听
- For the Life of the World (podcast): Restlessness, Christ, and Belonging听,听
- European Academy on Religion and Society: Through the apocalypse: Graham Ward on religion鈥檚 future in the wake of migration听
Javier Zamora
鈥�Solito: Home, Identity, and the Immigrant Experience鈥�
February 26, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews
- The Guardian: 鈥楴ow the chances of me crossing the border and surviving would be slim鈥櫶�
- Up Next (podcast): A Child's Story of Migration听
Reviews
- The New York Review of Books: Journey to the North听
- The New York Times: Javier Zamora Carried a Heavy Load. He Laid It to Rest on the Page.听
Articles
- Granta: A Wider Patch of Sky听
- The Bare Life Review: Revisiting the Border During a Pandemic听
- Literary Hub: Reading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds听
Excerpts
- Penguin Random House Common Reads: An excerpt from Javier Zamora鈥檚 Solito听
Arthur Frank
鈥淪hakespeare鈥檚 Catalog of Sufferings: Resources and Consolations for Vulnerable Readers鈥�
March 12, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews
- Shakespeare Anyone? (podcast): Interview with Dr. Arthur Frank听
Articles
- Art鈥檚 Blog: Locked Down With Lear听
Excerpts
- Folger Shakespeare Library: Excerpt: "King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations" by Arthur Frank
Katherine McKittrick
鈥淎 Poetics of Declension鈥�
March 19, 2025
7:00 p.m. | Gasson Hall 100
Interviews
- Women鈥檚 Studies Quarterly: Strategies for Liberation: A Conversation with Katherine McKittrick听
- dweller: Katherine McKittrick, a conversation on Black Dreamcatchers听
- The CLR James Journal: The Geographies of Blackness and Anti-Blackness听听
- Public Books: Katherine McKittrick on Black Methodologies and Other Ways of Being听
- The Wall Street Journal: 鈥楽ecrets of the Octopus鈥� Review: Nat Geo鈥檚 Tentacle Spectacle听
- The New York Times: What Can Writers Learn From Turtles听
- NPR: In 'Soul Of An Octopus,' An Invertebrate Steals Our Hearts听
- The Guardian: A Fond Study of the Elusive 鈥楢lien鈥�听
- Yankee: The World of Sy Montgomery听
Excerpts
- Literary Hub: Familiar Yet Strange: Why Turtles Are Worth Saving听
- Literary Hub: What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World听
John McNeill
鈥淭he Industrial Revolution as Global Environmental History鈥�
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
7 PM |听Gasson 100
Interviews
- Infectious Historians (podcast): Environmental History: Past, Present, and Future听
- Burning Ambulance: Interview: John McNeill听
- Perspectives on History: Embracing Fearlessness: An Interview with New AHA President John R. McNeill听
- E-International Relations: Interview: John R. McNeill听
Articles
- Seeing the Woods: The Uses of Environmental History听
Anne Berest
鈥淔amily Fictions:听The Postcard, Gabri毛le, and Writing True Novels鈥�
April 23, 2025
7 PM |听Devlin 110
Interviews
- The Literary Life (podcast): Anne Berest on Diving Into Her History for The Postcard听
Reviews
- The New Yorker: The Anonymous Postcard that Inspired a French Best-seller听
- The New York Times: An Autobiographical Novel Reclaims a Jewish History in Occupied France听
- Literary Hub: Anne Berest鈥檚 Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family鈥檚 Past听
- The Guardian: An autofictional tale of family survival听
- The New York Times: An Unsigned Postcard Named Four Family Members Who Died in the Holocaust. Why?听
- Lilith: Tragedy and Discovery, Braided Together听
Excerpts
- The Millions: I鈥檓 the One Who Survives: An Excerpt from 鈥楾he Postcard鈥櫶�