{"id":17,"date":"2023-02-18T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2024-04-29T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:38:20","slug":"this-year","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations in the Arts and Ideas 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>An Evening with David Grann<\/h2>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/artsandideas\/files\/2024\/01\/David-Grann-Warren-Towers-2160-x-3840-px-358x636.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-242 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/files\/2024\/01\/David-Grann-Warren-Towers-2160-x-3840-px-358x636.png 358w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/files\/2024\/01\/David-Grann-Warren-Towers-2160-x-3840-px-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/files\/2024\/01\/David-Grann-Warren-Towers-2160-x-3840-px-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/files\/2024\/01\/David-Grann-Warren-Towers-2160-x-3840-px-864x1536.png 864w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/files\/2024\/01\/David-Grann-Warren-Towers-2160-x-3840-px-1152x2048.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/files\/2024\/01\/David-Grann-Warren-Towers-2160-x-3840-px-900x1600.png 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/files\/2024\/01\/David-Grann-Warren-Towers-2160-x-3840-px-360x640.png 360w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/files\/2024\/01\/David-Grann-Warren-Towers-2160-x-3840-px-338x600.png 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/>On February 28, the award-winning writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidgrann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David Grann<\/strong><\/a> joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/debbie-danielpour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Professor Debbie Danielpour<\/strong><\/a> of BU&#8217;s College of Communication for a conversation about his life and work. Grann is the author of numerous books, including <em>Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders<\/em> <em>and the<\/em> <em>Birth of the FBI<\/em>, and <em>The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This event is sponsored by Kilachand Honors College, Boston University Center for the Humanities, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs, Dean of Arts &amp; Sciences, BU Arts Initiative, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, CAS Core Curriculum, NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship, Boston University&#8217;s College of Communication, and CAS Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Conversation was held at the Tsai Performance Center. Admission was free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Evening with David Grann On February 28, the award-winning writer David Grann joined Professor Debbie Danielpour of BU&#8217;s College of Communication for a conversation about his life and work. Grann is the author of numerous books, including Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, and The Wager: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17544,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsandideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}