Center Hosts Annual Humanities Book Publication Celebration
Conversation abounded in CAS on March 23, 2023, as scholars and staff from across humanities and adjacent departments gathered to celebrate humanistic publications by BU faculty published within the last twelve months. The event highlighted 17 humanities publications ranging from monographs to anthologies to two thousand-page volumes.These publications evidenced the importance of the spirit of […]
Celebrating New Humanities Publications by CAS Faculty
The Center for Humanities celebrates 17 recent publications by CAS humanities faculty at a Book Publication Party on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 5:30pm. To attend, please write to buch@bu.edu. The list of publications includes monographs, memoirs, edited volumes, fiction, and other works across a variety of disciplines. To learn more, click on each book’s […]
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 […]
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 […]