October 3, 2019 | Forum: Can We Talk? Dialogue and Debate in the Contemporary Academy
With Forum 2019, we will take the opportunity to look inward at one of the biggest challenges facing universities today: the problem of honest discussion within our own institutional borders. In seeking a topic that would serve our own Boston University community we recognized that no subject was of greater moment than the challenge of […]
Reflection: Christine D’Auria on Working at the Center as Graduate Program Intern
This summer, I am working at the Center for the Humanities as a program intern, assisting with the broad range of operations that constitute the life of the Center. In this evolving position, my duties have included producing and editing copy, managing application procedures, assisting in the production of the Center’s newsletter and publicity materials, […]
Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age Book Publication Will Bring Together Essays from Forum 2017
Our Forums are ongoing intellectual enterprises that will shape and contribute to programming and scholarship for years to come. Consequently, the Center is pleased to announce a forthcoming publication that brings together revised essays from participants in Forum 2017, edited by Center Director Susan Mizruchi. Like the Forum, the book, slated to be published by Palgrave […]
Community Feature: Karen Krolak’s Dictionary of Negative Space
Karen Krolak was one of the artists who participated in the art show hosted in conjunction with Forum 2018: Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis. She showed a pocket version of her Dictionary of Negative Space. This piece brought together some of the entries from her larger project in an effort to shed light on some […]
A Celebration of Humanities Journals
On February 5, 2019, the Center cosponsored with the Office of the Associate Dean of Faculty/Humanities “A Celebration of Boston University Humanities Journals.” The event featured a panel of editors representing six nationally celebrated Humanities journals, all of which are associated with BU. The journals featured were AGNI, Arion, The Black Scholar, The Journal of […]
The Howard Thurman Papers Project
This year the BU Center for the Humanities supported the Howard Thurman Papers Project, an effort to digitize the papers of Howard Washington Thurman at Boston University. Silvia Glick, a doctoral candidate at the Editorial Institute and Howard Thurman Papers Project Associate Managing Editor worked for the past year to significantly improve the Project’s website. […]
Professor Abigail Gillman Publishes “A History of German Jewish Bible Translation”
Congratulations to Professor Abigail Gillman, Associate Professor of Hebrew, German & Comparative Literature in WLL, and a Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow in 14/15, on her newest publication: A History of German Jewish Bible Translation (The University of Chicago Press). “This book is the first in English to offer a close analysis of German Jewish […]
Boston University Welcomes Louis Chude-Sokei
Louis Chude-Sokei joined the Boston University faculty this fall. He is a Professor of English as well as the George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies and the Director of the African American Studies Program. Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar whose work focuses on the literary, political, and cultural implications and ramifications […]