Summer 2019 PhD Intern’s Experience Leads to New and Unexpected Opportunity
In a featured article recently published on the BU Arts & Sciences website, former PhD intern Rachel Kirby (PhD candidate, American & New England Studies) discusses how her 2019 summer internship at Fenway Park led to a new surprising and exciting opportunity. Read more about Rachel’s experience working for the Red Sox here.
Reflection: Hannah Kinney-Kobre on the Incarceration Film Series
As part of the Center’s efforts to program events on topics of importance to the BU community, we launched a film series on the subject of incarceration and on Thursday, November 21, we hosted our inaugural screening. I conceived, programmed, and planned the event with Christine D’Auria, the Center’s graduate student intern. We’re grateful to […]
Classical Studies Graduate Conference
The BU Department of Classical Studies continues its strong efforts to connect the study of ancient literature and history to pressing issues of our time. On November 9, 2019, the department, with sponsorship from the Center, held their annual graduate student conference. This year’s conference “Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment” featured eight speakers […]
Center for the Humanities Welcomes Visiting Scholars
Two visiting scholars, Kyoko Miwa and Laetitia Zecchini, are enriching the BU Center for the Humanities’ intellectual community as they undertake cutting-edge humanities research in our office suite. Miwa and Zecchini come to Boston from Japan and France, respectively. Miwa, sponsored by the American & New England Studies program, comes to BU from Toho University […]
Tribute in Memoriam to Rudolf G. Wagner, Forum 2017 Participant and China Scholar
We were saddened to learn that Forum 2017 participant and Senior Professor of Chinese Studies at Heidelberg University, Rudolf G. Wagner, died on October 26, 2019. Wagner had a long and influential career that focused on the interface between politics and culture in China. He held a variety of prestigious fellowships, including a Harkness Fellowship, […]
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 […]
Robert J. Zimmer on “Academic Freedom and Open Inquiry”
With Forum 2019 just a week and a half away, we were pleased to learn about the engaging keynote address by Robert J. Zimmer, President of The University of Chicago, on the occasion of Central European University moving to Vienna. President Zimmer speaks to the merits of academic freedom and inquiry and the challenging climate […]
Forum 2019: Call for an Active Audience
Students, staff, administrators, lecturers, senior and junior faculty will come together to engage in dialogue about the limits and possibilities of the academy and talk about the issues that matter to us at Forum 2019 on October 3 at WBUR CitySpace. This is a plea for an active audience. After all, we cannot break down […]
Reflection: Rachel Kirby’s PhD Internship in the Humanities with the Boston Red Sox
Many graduate students have a favorite work spot, but few can say that they’ve written in an empty, sun-drenched Fenway Park while perched atop the Green Monster. Yet Rachel Kirby, PhD candidate in the American & New England Studies program at BU, had this unique experience, among many others, while working with the Boston Red […]
Reflection: Arthur Kamya’s PhD Internship in the Humanities at the Boston Athenæum
It’s not surprising to find in the archives of the Boston Athenæum a scholar of seventeenth-century Massachusetts, such as Arthur Kamya, PhD candidate in BU’s American & New England Studies program; however, the opportunity for him to undertake a specialized secondary school curriculum development project on U.S. women’s political history under the auspices of a […]