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 […]
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 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 […]
Celebrating New Humanities Publications by CAS Faculty
We were delighted to celebrate these 32 recent publications by CAS faculty at our Humanities Book Publication Party on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 5:00pm. The breadth and variety of work being done in CAS humanities is reflected in these works, which include monographs, edited volumes, several languages, numerous disciplines, and an inspiring level of […]
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 […]
Reflection: Hannah Kinney-Kobre on the Incarceration Film Series
As part of the Center’s efforts to program events on topics of importance to the BU community, we launched a film series on the subject of incarceration and on Thursday, November 21, we hosted our inaugural screening. I conceived, programmed, and planned the event with Christine D’Auria, the Center’s graduate student intern. We’re grateful to […]
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 […]
Tribute in Memoriam to Rudolf G. Wagner, Forum 2017 Participant and China Scholar
We were saddened to learn that Forum 2017 participant and Senior Professor of Chinese Studies at Heidelberg University, Rudolf G. Wagner, died on October 26, 2019. Wagner had a long and influential career that focused on the interface between politics and culture in China. He held a variety of prestigious fellowships, including a Harkness Fellowship, […]