October 3, 2019 | Forum: Can We Talk? Dialogue and Debate in the Contemporary Academy
With Forum 2019, we will take the opportunity to look inward at one of the biggest challenges facing universities today: the problem of honest discussion within our own institutional borders. In seeking a topic that would serve our own Boston University community we recognized that no subject was of greater moment than the challenge of […]
Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age Book Publication Will Bring Together Essays from Forum 2017
Our Forums are ongoing intellectual enterprises that will shape and contribute to programming and scholarship for years to come. Consequently, the Center is pleased to announce a forthcoming publication that brings together revised essays from participants in Forum 2017, edited by Center Director Susan Mizruchi. Like the Forum, the book, slated to be published by Palgrave […]
Article Cowritten by Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis Forum Hosts
In conjunction with our fall forum, Susan Mizruchi and Sandro Galea have written a piece for Global Thrive on “How the Humanities Can Help the Opioid Crisis.” They write: “The opioid epidemic is the public health crisis of our time: with 64,000 annual deaths, it has surpassed the peak losses of all other epidemics, including […]
BUCH Director Professor Susan Mizruchi Installed as William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities
On November 21st, Center for the Humanities Director Professor Susan Mizruchi will be installed by Dean Ann Cudd as the inaugural William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities in an event celebrating the installment of five newly appointed CAS endowed chairs at the university. The gift agreement with the Arrowsmith family states that “the William Arrowsmith […]