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 […]
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 […]
Reflection: Rachel Kirby’s PhD Internship in the Humanities with the Boston Red Sox
Many graduate students have a favorite work spot, but few can say that they’ve written in an empty, sun-drenched Fenway Park while perched atop the Green Monster. Yet Rachel Kirby, PhD candidate in the American & New England Studies program at BU, had this unique experience, among many others, while working with the Boston Red […]
Reflection: Arthur Kamya’s PhD Internship in the Humanities at the Boston Athenæum
It’s not surprising to find in the archives of the Boston Athenæum a scholar of seventeenth-century Massachusetts, such as Arthur Kamya, PhD candidate in BU’s American & New England Studies program; however, the opportunity for him to undertake a specialized secondary school curriculum development project on U.S. women’s political history under the auspices of a […]
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 […]
Reflection: Christine D’Auria on Working at the Center as Graduate Program Intern
This summer, I am working at the Center for the Humanities as a program intern, assisting with the broad range of operations that constitute the life of the Center. In this evolving position, my duties have included producing and editing copy, managing application procedures, assisting in the production of the Center’s newsletter and publicity materials, […]
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 […]
2018/2019 Student Award Winners Announced
Each year, the Boston University Center for the Humanities gives awards ranging from $1,500 to $7,000 to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students in the Humanities. The achievements of these students will be celebrated at our annual Student Awards Ceremony at 11 a.m. on May 14, 2019 at 1 Silber Way, Trustee Center Ballroom, 9th floor.