Professor George Lopez, Chair of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame is this year’s F. Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecturer. Join UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College for a reception at 5:30 p.m. and lecture at 6:30 p.m. in the Brad Morse Federal Building, 50 Kearney Square, Lowell, Massachusetts. The lecture…
For those who haven’t heard from other channels UMass Lowell’s Portuguese Center event with poet Frank X. Gaspar that was scheduled for Thursday evening, April 11, has been cancelled due to a change in the author’s schedule! Please stay tuned for details our event with anthropology scholar Cristiana Bastos on…
I’m glad I went down to the river last night. The preacher was in town, and the congregation was called to assemble. He made his fourth tour through the city of smokestacks and steeples, the small city with the world on its streets. The people arrived with eager, happy looks…
UMass Lowell continued to cement its reputation as a center of political activity in Massachusetts last evening with a debate between US Senate candidates Steve Lynch and Ed Markey at Durgin Hall (the three Republican candidates had been invited but chose not to participate). While the debate was not broadcast…
Frequent contributor Jim Peters shared some of this thoughts from the week past: The question of the week, for me personally that is, was how do you keep up with Dick Howe, Jr. I have been a friend of the Howe family since Dick was just a kid, but somehow,…
Ryan Gallagher, Chuck Levenstein, and I had a good afternoon in Gloucester reading poems for about 20 people at the Gloucester Writers Center, which is a small house on East Main Street that was once the home of poet Vincent Ferrini, longtime poet laureate of Gloucester and a disciple of…
Book signing on April 6 by DickH On Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 11:00 A.M., the Lowell Historical Society will host a book signing event for Legendary Locals of Lowell, the new book I co-wrote with Mike Rosenberg. The event will take place at Lowell Telecommunications Corporation which is at…
Last evening was the Lowell premiere of “Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey”, a documentary about Sayon Soeun who at a very young age was forced to serve as a Khmer Rouge soldier. The film follows Sayon, who has lived in Lowell since the early 1990s, as he returns to Cambodia in…
From UMass Lowell: The Center for Public Opinion periodically sponsors political debates as part of its mission to promote civic engagement and an enhanced understanding of the political process. U.S. Senate Special Election Primary Debate, April 8, 2013 Come see the candidates for U.S. Senate debate the issues of importance…