Forum 2019 Panelist Emily Gowen Featured in The New York Times
Congratulations to BU English PhD student and Forum 2019 panelist Emily Gowen, who was featured in an article in this week’s New York Times discussing the issue of teaching texts affected by #MeToo allegations against their authors: Emily Gowen, a literature instructor at Boston University, asked her freshmen to read Mr. Díaz’s short story “The […]
Robert J. Zimmer on “Academic Freedom and Open Inquiry”
With Forum 2019 just a week and a half away, we were pleased to learn about the engaging keynote address by Robert J. Zimmer, President of The University of Chicago, on the occasion of Central European University moving to Vienna. President Zimmer speaks to the merits of academic freedom and inquiry and the challenging climate […]
Forum 2019: Call for an Active Audience
Students, staff, administrators, lecturers, senior and junior faculty will come together to engage in dialogue about the limits and possibilities of the academy and talk about the issues that matter to us at Forum 2019 on October 3 at WBUR CitySpace. This is a plea for an active audience. After all, we cannot break down […]
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 […]