Rebecca Solnit, Charles Sennott, Ruth Rubio Mar铆n, Marlon James, Michael Sandel, C. Dale Young, and Carrie Mae Weems will speak at the fall Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College.
Influential contemporary American artist Carrie Mae Weems will launch the fall Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College with a September 10 appearance titled 鈥淒on鈥檛 Let Me Be Lonely,鈥� presented in conjunction with the McMullen Museum of Art exhibition 鈥�,鈥� which opens that day and remains on view until December 13.
Weems will be in residence at 亚色影库 from September 10 to 12; she will meet with students and faculty to discuss the issues addressed in her work and the role of art in shaping a more enlightened future.
鈥淚n the tradition of the Lowell, we strive to bring to campus diverse and field-leading thinkers across various disciplines鈥攊ncluding top writers鈥攖o continue important campus and national conversations,鈥� according to series assistant director Lauren Wilwerding, a part-time English Department faculty member. 鈥淲e are always seeking ways to offer events that are integrated into the curriculum and community; a number of them this fall are the result of collaborations across campus.鈥�
Weems has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power through art, employing photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at such major museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frist Center for Visual Art, and the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, and has received awards, grants, and fellowships, including the prestigious Prix de Roma, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Alpert. In 2012, she was presented with one of the first U.S. Department of State鈥檚 Medals of Arts; the following year, she received a MacArthur 鈥淕enius鈥� grant and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation鈥檚 Lifetime Achievement Award. She is currently artist in residence at the Park Avenue Armory.
Her lecture, which will be held at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall 110, is co-sponsored by 亚色影库's Institute for the Liberal Arts.
Other Lowell Humanities Series lectures this semester include:
Charles Sennott
GroundTruth in the 鈥楶ost-Truth鈥� Era
September 19, 7 p.m., Gasson 100
The founder and executive director of The GroundTruth Project, Sennott is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, and editor with 30 years of journalism experience. His discussion of GroundTruth and the role of young journalists in the world is timely, organizers note, as a journalism minor is offered on campus for the first time. Sennott has reported on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in more than 15 countries, including the 2011 revolution in Cairo and the Arab Spring. His extensive international reporting experience led him to launch The GroundTruth Project and to dedicate himself to training the next generation of international journalists for the digital age. He also is the co-founder of GlobalPost, an acclaimed international news website. He served as the Boston Globe鈥檚 Middle East bureau chief based in Jerusalem from 1997 to 2001 and as Europe bureau chief based in London from 2001 to 2005.