Conversation with Kira Ganga Kieffer, PhD Candidate, Religion
Interview with Kira Ganga Kieffer Dissertation Project: “Pure Bodies, Sacred Souls: Religion and Vaccine Skepticism in Modern American History” How did you arrive at such an opportune research project? How did you manage to reverse the usual trajectory by securing a book deal prior to completing the dissertation? When the pandemic struck, I had already […]
Conversation with Merve Rumeysa Tapinç, PhD Candidate, Philosophy
Interview with Merve Rumeysa Tapinç Dissertation Project: “The Duty of Self-Knowledge and Moral Responsibility for Our Beliefs and Commitments” What is the subject of your research? My research focuses on the epistemic and moral problem of self-knowledge. For instance, the problem of implicit bias—its harmful effects on others—presents us with both a moral and an […]
Conversation with Hyunjin Cho, PhD Candidate, History of Art & Architecture
Interview with Hyunjin Cho Dissertation Project: “Illustrated Manuscripts of Firdausi’s Shahnama in Nineteenth-Century Iran” What is the subject of your dissertation? My general area of research is Islamic art with a specialization in the arts of the book in 19th-century Iran. In my dissertation, I focus on one literary text, an epic poem called the […]
Survival Guide Expands AFAM Community
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced every community to grapple with the challenge of staying connected in the absence of in-person gatherings. In a recent conversation, Meredith McDuffie, BU alum (CAS ‘20) and current African American Studies Program media assistant, discussed how addressing this challenge yielded the AFAM Survival Guide, a bi-monthly newsletter that describes itself […]
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 […]