Addressing Important Conversations Through Classics: Res Difficiles 2.0
The annual Res Difficiles: A Conference on Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics tackles current pressing social issues as they intersect with the field of Classics. Coming from the phrase “Difficult Things” in Latin, this year’s remote Res Difficiles 2.0 tackled the difficult topic of social justice on March 20, 2021. This conference aims to […]
Conversation with Joanne Lafortune, MA Candidate, African American Studies Program
Interview with Joanne Lafortune What was life like for you prior to March 2020? I teach upper and middle school English literature at the Wheeler school in Providence, Rhode Island. As well as teaching English, I am also involved in attempting to diversify and decolonize all aspects of our school curriculum. One of the ways […]
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 […]