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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Associate Director Margarita Guillory Speaks at 2023 Gitner Lecture
The annual Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family College of Arts & Sciences Lecture is designed to highlight current CAS faculty members, in any field, whose teaching and research addresses topics of major importance for the broad interest and benefit of the BU community. In 2023, the Gitner Lecture explored the question “What does it mean […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Dennis Wuerthner
“I had to defend my decision to pursue Korean studies to a lot of people. They would regularly ask me ‘what are you going to do with that?’ I didn’t really have an answer. I just knew it was right the minute I started. It was magical to me to encounter this new culture, this […]
2023 BUCH Student Awards Recipients
Undergraduate Student Awards The Dean Elsbeth Melville Latin Prize Kit Houng Li Classical Studies The John Oddy Memorial Award Vivian Dai Classical Studies Mairead Downes Classical Studies & History Aarohi Goel Classical Studies Anna Rafferty English & American Studies Emma Rits Biology & Mathematics The Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award Nathaniel Ceus Philosophy Christopher James […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Timothy Clark
“The field is changing, and you might be surprised by how it illuminates or gives you new perspectives about the modern world,” says Timothy Clark, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies. While Clark acknowledges that “sitting around reading Latin and thinking big thoughts” is still a “valuable part of the classical studies discipline,” the associated […]