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 […]
AFAM Course Initiative Launches
In June 2020, BUCH published a statement announcing several projects designed to address systemic racism through the lens of humanities methods and disciplines. One such project was a commitment to “provide funding for an initiative that would support the development and teaching of additional courses in African-American humanities areas.” Thanks to collaborative efforts by the […]
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 […]
BU Humanities Graduate Intern Report Impacts Boston Removal of Emancipation Statue
On June 30, 2020, the Boston Arts Commission (BAC) voted to remove The Emancipation Group statute from its prominent position in Boston’s Park Square. Unlike the US National Park Service that is struggling to protect the Emancipation Monument, a replica of the Boston statue in Washington, DC’s Lincoln Park, the City of Boston has heeded […]
Reflection: Hannah Kinney-Kobre Returns to OUP
Hannah Kinney-Kobre, BU Center for the Humanities Senior Staff Assistant emerita and College of Arts & Sciences 2020 graduate in English and Cinema and Media Studies, has accepted a position as an editorial intern at Oxford University Press in New York City. Despite graduating into the worst economy since the Great Depression, Kinney-Kobre’s exceptional academic […]
Message from the Center
We are deeply saddened and angered by the murder of George Floyd by police, which is one in a line of many. The systemic and historically entrenched racism that takes the form of constant harassment and deadly violence against Black people is unacceptable. We lament the lack of national leadership on this issue and support […]
Announcing 2020 BUCH Student Awardees
Each year, the Boston University Center for the Humanities recognizes the work of outstanding students in the humanities through student awards and fellowships. Selected undergraduate and graduate applicants receive monetary awards, and selected doctoral candidates nearing the end of their graduate work receive competitive fellowships for the following academic year. Although we cannot hold our […]
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 […]
Center Hosts First Annual Humanities Book Publication Party
The BU Center for the Humanities and the Office of the Associate Dean of Faculty for the Humanities celebrated recent humanities publications by BU faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences at the first annual Humanities Book Publication Party on Tuesday, February 4. Associate Dean Karl Kirchwey and BU Center for the Humanities Director […]