Announcing the “Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age” Book Collection and NeMLA Panel
The BU Center for the Humanities hosts forums on topics of significance to humanities scholars and the broader public. These forums bring a range of professional and institutional perspectives into dialogue with the intention of generating future, ongoing discussion. Forum 2017 has fulfilled this mandate in the form of a collection, Libraries and Archives in […]
Scenes from Patricia Herzog’s new opera “The Resurrection of Lucretia” at Boston Conservatory
On Friday, December 6, 2019, the Boston Conservatory at Berklee workshopped four scenes from Patricia Herzog’s forthcoming opera, The Resurrection of Lucretia. After the performance of selected scenes by opera students, Herzog, Johnathon Pape (Head of Opera at Boston Conservatory), and the students who played Lucretia and Sextus Tarquinius engaged in a talkback. Herzog reflected […]
Forum 2019 Panelist Emily Gowen Featured in The New York Times
Congratulations to BU English PhD student and Forum 2019 panelist Emily Gowen, who was featured in an article in this week’s New York Times discussing the issue of teaching texts affected by #MeToo allegations against their authors: Emily Gowen, a literature instructor at Boston University, asked her freshmen to read Mr. Díaz’s short story “The […]
Red Sox Podcasts Coproduced by 2018 Summer PhD Internship Awardee Chris Stokum
During his internship at the Boston Red Sox, one of the 2018 Summer Internships for BU Humanities PhD Candidates, Chris Stokum produced a series of podcasts presented as part of a promotional package for the Harvard-Yale game on November 17, 2018. Listen to the podcasts by following the links below: Episode 1: https://gordonedes.net/2018/11/16/get-in-the-game-harvard-yale-at-fenway/ Episode 2: https://gordonedes.net/2018/11/16/get-in-the-game-harvard-yale-the-history-episode-2/ Episode […]
Article Cowritten by Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis Forum Hosts
In conjunction with our fall forum, Susan Mizruchi and Sandro Galea have written a piece for Global Thrive on “How the Humanities Can Help the Opioid Crisis.” They write: “The opioid epidemic is the public health crisis of our time: with 64,000 annual deaths, it has surpassed the peak losses of all other epidemics, including […]
Professor Fallou Ngom Awarded Herskovits Prize
Congratulations to Professor Fallou Ngom on being awarded the prestigious Melville J. Herskovits Prize! The Herskovits Prize is given to the most important scholarly work in African Studies published in English each year, and was awarded to Professor Ngom for his book, Muslims Beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya (Oxford […]
Battle of the Sexes Screening and Q&A
We’d like to thank directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton for graciously taking the time to show us their new film Battle of the Sexes and talk with students about the film afterwards. It was a great discussion, and the audience learned a lot about filmmaking and the history behind the film. Students even got […]
BUCH Director Professor Susan Mizruchi Installed as William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities
On November 21st, Center for the Humanities Director Professor Susan Mizruchi will be installed by Dean Ann Cudd as the inaugural William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities in an event celebrating the installment of five newly appointed CAS endowed chairs at the university. The gift agreement with the Arrowsmith family states that “the William Arrowsmith […]
Goodbye to longtime Center for the Humanities administrator Christine Loken-Kim!
We said goodbye last week to our much-beloved center administrator Christine Loken-Kim. Loken-Kim is retiring after being with the center for nine years, during which she ensured that BUCH ran smoothly and with the utmost efficiency and integrity. She was sent off in true Center for the Humanities fashion with a small party so […]