From The Library
Thomas Hobbes and His Leviathan Workshop
Learn more about Thomas Hobbes and His "Leviathan."
The College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Science is partnering with the UMass Lowell (UML) Library to host a one-day workshop exploring the English philosopher and political scientist Thomas Hobbes and his masterpiece Leviathan (published 1651). The UML Library will showcase its rare first edition of this text, which includes marginal notes and glosses from prior owners. Together with John Locke and later French philosophers like Voltaire and Montesquieu, Hobbes offered critical ideas about state power, the social contract and democracy—topics that continue to resonate in 2026.
The conference will feature brief contributions from UML faculty and students across a range of departments, including the UML Library, Art History, English, History, Philosophy and Political Science. Audience participation will be encouraged and will have an opportunity to see the text.
Join us on Tuesday, April 7, 2026 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in University Crossing Room 260 (Moloney Hall).
The UMass Lowell Library Launches UMass Lowell Research, Archives and Data (UML RAD)
Learn more about UMLRAD
UML RAD is a repository founded by the UMass Lowell (UML) Library to provide faculty and other UML community members with a permanent place to share their academic work and research data.
The University Library’s goal is to preserve, share, and celebrate the important scholarship created by the UML community. UML RAD enables scholarly output (such as papers, research data, conference presentations, images, and more) to be publicly accessible, discoverable, citable, and backed by a preservation process that will fulfill data management and sharing requirements set by grant funding agencies.
This repository also serves as UML Center for Lowell History’s digital archive, where researchers can view a wide variety of historical items from university and Lowell-related collections.