Malcolm Christian, founder of The Caversham Press, addresses the crowd at the opening reception of "South Africa: Artists, Prints, Community" in the 808 Gallery

Quotes

First Herald
    Newes, newes, newes.
Second Herald
    Bold, and brave news!
1 Her.
    Newe as the night they are borne in;
2 Her.
    Or the Phant’sie that begot ’hem.
1 Her.
    Excellent newes!

—Ben Jonson, Newes from the New World

Photos

 

Director of the Humanities Foundation James Winn plays flute alongside Assistant Professor of Music and BUHF Fellow Ketty Nez at the piano during their recital "New American Music for Flute and Piano"

Center for the Humanities Director James Winn plays flute alongside Assistant Professor of Music and BUCH Fellow Ketty Nez at the piano during their recital "New American Music for Flute and Piano" Spring 2011

2.	Actors Jacob Strautmann and Heather Houston perform Weston High School student Alessandra Haley’s play Descriptions at the Massachusetts Young Playwrights’ Festival

Actors Jacob Strautmann and Heather Houston perform Weston High School student Alessandra Haley’s play Descriptions at the Massachusetts Young Playwrights’ Festival, April 2011

1.	Actors Ed Hoopman and Georgia Lyman perform Framingham High School student Chloe Kounadis’s play Taste This at the Massachusetts Young Playwrights’ Festival

Actors Ed Hoopman and Georgia Lyman perform Framingham High School student Chloe Kounadis’s play Taste This at the Massachusetts Young Playwrights’ Festival, April 2011

French actress Corinne Jaber talks with BU students and faculty about working with women in Afghanistan during her visit to campus in March 2011. Photo by Carla Pack-Bailey.

During her visit to BU in March 2011, French actress Corinne Jaber talks about producing theater with women in Afghanistan. Photo by Carla Pack-Bailey.

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Miriam Burstein, Paola Malpezzi Price, Mary Spongberg and Gina Luria Walker at The Colloquium on Feminist Genealogies, February 2011.

10 December 2010: Deborah Burton (BU) with Metopolitan Opera tenor Marcello Giordani after the centennial performance of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West.

10 December 2010: Deborah Burton (BU) with Metopolitan Opera tenor Marcello Giordani after the centennial performance of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West.

Katherine O'Connor (BU), Priscilla Meyer (Wesleyan University) and Tim Peltason (Wellesley) discussed the "Convention of Marriage" at the Twain and Tolstoy symposium, August 2010

Katherine O'Connor (BU), Priscilla Meyer (Wesleyan University) and Tim Peltason (Wellesley) discussed the "Convention of Marriage" at the Twain and Tolstoy symposium, August 2010

The Editorial Institute’s Assistant Director Frances Whistler converses with independent scholar Brent Colley, before his presentation with Heather Morgan from The Mark Twain Library (Redding, Connecticut) on the diplomatic use of Twain’s literature during the Cold War

The Editorial Institute’s Assistant Director Frances Whistler converses with independent scholar Brent Colley, before his presentation with Heather Morgan from The Mark Twain Library (Redding, Connecticut) on the diplomatic use of Twain’s literature during the Cold War

Galina Alekseeva, Head of Academic Research at the State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, gives a brief history of the house and provides the audience a screening of footage from Tolstoy’s last three years.

Galina Alekseeva, Head of Academic Research at the State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, gives a brief history of the house and provides the audience a screening of footage from Tolstoy’s last three years.

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