Article: Why Boredom Affects Us So Much
Why Boredom Affects Us So Much If being isolated at home is starting to feel like your own personal prison, it’s because tedium is also used as a severe form of carceral punishment. By Professor Saida Grundy Read the article on The Atlantic.
BU Spring Break Cuba 2020 has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We hope to run the program next year!
Upcoming Webinar: COVID 19 & Cities: How Are They Coping?
COVID-19 & Cities: How Are They Coping? Wed., April 15th | 1pm Register here: Please join the BU Initiative on Cities for a webinar to learn about how cities throughout the country are managing the numerous municipal crises triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Graham Wilson, Director of the Initiative on Cities, will be joined by: […]
Postponed: Writing Black Lives Symposium and Exhibit
In accordance with Boston University’s current precautions regarding COVID-19, all University-sponsored events and gatherings are cancelled for the remainder of the semester. The Writing Black Lives symposium and exhibit will be rescheduled for Fall 2020. Please stay tuned for more information.
Congratulations to Dr. John Thornton on his new book release, “A History of West Central Africa to 1850”
Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 gives comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region. With equal focus given to both internal histories or inter-state interactions and external dynamics and relationships, this study represents an original approach to regional […]
Upcoming Event: Black Boston Speaker Series
Black Boston: Transforming the Arts March 16th, 2020 | 6pm-7:30pm Boston is renowned for its arts and theater institutions, which historically have made space for certain kinds of artists and conceptions of art. How is Boston elevating and amplifying new voices and new approaches to the Arts? How are we transforming who gets to make […]
Summer Courses 2020
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity CAS AA 207 Examines the fundamental theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity and the current state of race relations in the U.S., exploring both contemporary social problems and the deep historical roots of those problems through a sociological lens. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Also offered as CAS […]
Upcoming Event | Writing Black Lives: A Symposium and Exhibit
Please join us March 27th for “Writing Black Lives: A Symposium and Exhibit.” In response to the current explosion in books and films focused on Black and African American people, BU’s African American Studies Program is hosting a symposium that reflects on the work of those who have successfully told these stories. What are the unique […]
Upcoming Event: Restorative Justice & Societal Repair
Please join us on February 21 for this symposium, “Restorative Justice and Societal Repair: Global Racism and Reparations,” which invites academics, students, community activists, cultural artists, theorists, philosophers, and others interested in the ongoing problem of global racism and injustice and the debate over reparations/repair and redress for enslavement, genocide, and colonization of African-descended people. The […]
Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center: Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell: In Memoriam, 1919-2019
Located in the Gotlieb Memorial Gallery on the first floor of Mugar Memorial Library. The exhibition can be viewed during regular library hours. This exhibition examines the life and work of Dr. Adelaide M. Cromwell, who passed away on June 8, 2019. A cofounding faculty member of the African Studies Center and founder of the […]