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 […]
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 […]
Community Feature: Karen Krolak’s Dictionary of Negative Space
Karen Krolak was one of the artists who participated in the art show hosted in conjunction with Forum 2018: Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis. She showed a pocket version of her Dictionary of Negative Space. This piece brought together some of the entries from her larger project in an effort to shed light on some […]
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 […]