BUCH at National Humanities Advocacy Day
On March 14 and 15, 2022, I attended the National Humanities Alliance’s Annual Meeting and National Humanities Advocacy Day. These events work together to spread the word on current humanities programs and encourage continued federal funding of the humanities. As an undergraduate staff member at the Boston University Center for the Humanities, I addressed the […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet John Ott
When John Ott identifies “an itch I feel compelled to scratch,” he knows that he has found his next research project. His past work shows his willingness to follow his intellectual curiosity, with publications on topics ranging from art patrons in Victorian California to photography of Black athletes during the Gilded Age. Ott explains that […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Matthew Creighton
As the newest installment in our New to BU Series, Dr. Matthew Creighton provided the reflections below on his journey from growing up in Allston to teaching across multiple CAS programs. For Matthew Creighton, who joined the CAS faculty over the summer as a lecturer in the College of Arts & Sciences, teaching at Boston […]
Abigail Gillman (WLL) Named IAS Distinguished Scholar
Abigail Gillman (CAS World Languages & Literatures and AY2021/2022 BUCH Henderson Senior Research Fellow) has been selected as a Distinguished Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Tel Aviv University. As a recipient of this prestigious fellowship, Gillman will travel to Tel Aviv in November 2021 where she will spend three months conducting research […]
Boston University Ethics Seminar to Host One-Hundredth Speaker
On November 4, the Boston University Ethics Seminar (sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities) will host Daniel Wodak (University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy) as its one-hundredth speaker over thirteen years. The BU Ethics Seminar grew out of the philosophy department’s ethics reading group. In 2008, during his first year as an assistant professor, Daniel […]
The Humanities Intersect with Prison Reform: Piper Kerman on Injustices in the U.S. Prison System
The National Endowment for the Humanities website states that “democracy demands wisdom,” thereby establishing an essential link between the humanities and social justice. It is this connection that the Boston University Center for the Humanities sought to explore at an event co-hosted by the Law Student Affairs Office, the Law Student Government Association, and Kilachand […]
E. Thomas Finan on Reading Reality
New publication by E. Thomas Finan (CGS humanities) – Reading Reality: Nineteenth Century American Experiments in the Real (University of Virginia Press 2021) Reading Reality: Nineteenth Century American Experiments in the Real by E. Thomas Finan, College of General Studies Senior Lecturer in Humanities, was recently published by the University of Virginia Press. The book […]
Workshop on Mapping Christianity in China
The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) is a website dedicated to discovering, preserving, and visualizing the presence of Christianity in China from 1550 to 1950. The CHCD is sponsored by BU’s Center for Global Christianity and Mission, which also supports projects such as the Chinese Christian Poster Project. Since its launch in 2018, the CHCD […]
Jonathan Zatlin on Jewish Dispossession
New publication by Jonathan Zatlin (HI) and Christoph Kreutzmüller – Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry 1933-1953 (University of Michigan 2020) Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933 -1953, a work edited by BU Associate Professor of History and 2018 BUCH Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow Jonathan Zatlin and Senior Historian of House of Wannsee Conferences Christoph Kreutzmüller, was just […]
Kim Sichel on Making Strange: the Modernist Photobook in France
New podcast by Kim Sichel (AH) discussing her recent book, Making Strange: the Modernist Photobook in France (Yale 2020). In March, Boston University associate professor of the history of photography and modern art and 2015 BUCH Henderson Senior Research Fellow Kim Sichel spoke with Jessica Holahan on the Yale University Press Podcast series (Ep. 79 […]