{"id":13826,"date":"2020-04-08T15:13:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:41:12","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Center<\/h3>\n<p>Established in 1980 through a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH or the Center) has developed a distinctive model for humanistic research, creative innovation, faculty support, and collaborative engagement in the humanities at BU. The Center&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/about-us\/history\/\">history<\/a><\/strong> has placed it at the heart of BU&#8217;s work in the humanities.<\/p>\n<p>The Center is now poised to further its original goals and build on the four decades of accomplishment and prestige that BUCH has brought to the University.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022\/2023 Expanded BUCH Charter will guide the Center in realizing the aspirations for BU humanities research articulated in the Arts &amp; Sciences 2021 Humanities Task Force Report, securing the continued rise of BU as a global leader in innovative humanities-based scholarship, community engagement, and creative work.<\/p>\n<p>BUCH is dedicated to maintaining its core mission of faculty support and enlarging the current programmatic scope through the creation of three new initiatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/initiatives\/humanities-leadership\/\">Humanities Leadership Initiative<\/a> (HLI)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/initiatives\/digital-humanities\/\">Humanizing the Digital<\/a>\u00a0(DHI)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/initiatives\/global-humanities\/\">Humanities in the World Initiative<\/a> (HWI)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about the Center&#8217;s past activities, our annual <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/about-us\/newsletters\/\">newsletters<\/a> <\/strong>offer detailed retrospectives of each year&#8217;s programming.<\/p>\n<p>Please go to our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/about-us\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a><\/strong> page if you have questions or would like to be added to the list for the weekly bulletin of humanities events that we send out during fall and spring semesters.<\/p>\n<p>You can also reach us at:<\/p>\n<p><strong>BU Center for the Humanities<\/strong><br \/>\n725 Commonwealth Avenue, B02<br \/>\nBoston, MA 02215<br \/>\nTelephone: 617 353-6250<br \/>\nEmail: <strong><a href=\"mailto:buch@bu.edu\">buch@bu.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center Established in 1980 through a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH or the Center) has developed a distinctive model for humanistic research, creative innovation, faculty support, and collaborative engagement in the humanities at BU. The Center&#8217;s history has placed it at the heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13826"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22530,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13826\/revisions\/22530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}