Author: Ashley Mulcahy

Special Issue: The Journal of Modern Philosophy

The Center is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of The Journal of Modern Philosophy: Imperialism, Racism, and Slavery in the Modern Period, Vol. 6, Issue 2. The Center was delighted to provide support for this publication as well as the 2023 conference “Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy,” which resulted in this […]

Building Awareness of Digital Research Tools through Graduate Workshop

On October 28, 2024, the Center hosted “Reimagining Humanities Research,” a workshop that brought together graduate students across disciplines and departments to learn about digital research methods and tools. Drawing from her experiences working on the Chinese Historical Christian Database under the mentorship of Professor Eugenio Menegon (HI), PhD student Greta Rauch Frei (HI) introduced her peers […]

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Virtual Exhibit Launch

During an inaugural PhD Summer Internship in the Humanities at the newly founded Race and Regency Lab, Constanza Robles (HAA) curated a virtual exhibit, Visualizing Property, which centers on a 1772 manuscript plan of Belvidere plantation in Jamaica, home to hundreds of enslaved people (c.1600–18333). The exhibit showcases different objects –maps, ceramics, prints, and documents– to contextualize the map […]

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Adam Seligman Published New Monograph

Congratulations to Professor of Religion Adam Seligman, whose monograph, Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis, was recently published in August 2024 by De Gruyter Press with a publication subvention from BUCH. Oaths and Vows “focuses on private vows and oaths including those publicly proclaimed, seeking to uncover a phenomenology of oaths and vows through analysis […]

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Ana Villarreal’s JFF Book Project Published

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Sociology Ana Villarreal, whose monograph, The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis, was recently published by Oxford University Press. Villarreal’s work on this book project was supported by a AY 19-20 BUCH Junior Faculty Fellowship. Taking Villareal’s native Monterrey, Mexico as a case study, The […]

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Mathematics with a Human Face Recording Now Available

The Center is pleased to share that a full recording of Mathematics with a Human Face is now available online.  Mathematicians and philosophers gathered in BU’s law building on April 22, 2024, for the inaugural “Mathematics with a Human Face” conference, sponsored by the Center in collaboration with the University of Bergen’s Department of Philosophy […]

Director Juliet Floyd Featured on Zeppelin University Podcast

Center Director and Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy Juliet Floyd was a recent guest on a podcast produced by Welle20 at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany. In conversation with, Jan Söffner, Chair of Cultural Theory and -Analysis at Zeppelin University and university students, Floyd applies a philosophical lens to the latests developments in artificial intelligence. […]

BU Humanists at Work: Daniel Star and the Public Humanities

When Associate Professor of Philosophy Daniel Star was a graduate student, he was not encouraged to write for a general readership. “Public facing writing by academics was frowned upon as not a serious thing,” he explains. Traditionally, academics in the humanities ascend the ranks within their institution and garner recognition in their field by producing […]

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