Wed Feb 3 · 7pm
Annual Candlemas Lecture by Mayra Rivera | Born to the World: Musings on Being Human
Boston College's annual Candlemas Lecture in the Lowell Humanities Series is given by Mayra Rivera, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies at Harvard Divinity School and director of the Humanities Program at the Radcliffe Institute. Rivera works where theology, literature and theories of coloniality, race and gender meet, especially Caribbean thought; her books include Poetics of the Flesh (2015) and The Touch of Transcendence (2007).