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The BUCH Podcast creates a digital space for the personal and the global to intersect. Students, scholars and authors connect their experiences to larger societal challenges and conversations that remain at the fore of humanistic inquiry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Season Five
\nThe Order of Things<\/a><\/h2>\n

As we continue on in a world that is both ordered and disordered by systems of categorization and disruptions to those systems, we can speak with those attempting to understand how these orders function and what we can do to understand them. In Season Five, BU alumni and scholars share their experiences studying and disrupting order in their own projects, from the role of beauty in programming to the disruption of religious norms by twentieth-century artists.<\/span>
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In Episode One<\/a><\/strong>, Managing Director Kurt Cavender<\/a><\/strong> sits down with data architect and BU alumnus Glenn Street. Over the course of the episode, they discuss Glenn\u2019s journey from philosophy to data science, the evolution of AI, and the role of beauty in mathematics and programming.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Episode Two<\/a><\/strong>, Center staff member Roni Lakin (\u201925)<\/b><\/a> talks<\/span> with Associate Professor of Religion Anthony Petro<\/b><\/a> about his forthcoming book Provoking Religion: Sex, Art<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0and the Culture Wars<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <\/span><\/span>which he completed during his time as a Jeffrey\u00a0 Henderson Senior Research Fellow<\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In Episode Three<\/a><\/strong>, Kurt Cavender<\/a> <\/strong>welcomes Director of the Howard Thurman Center, Nick Bates<\/a><\/strong>, to discuss Thurman\u2019s legacy and relevance to navigating the world today. Nick is a Thurman scholar dedicated to finding ways to help the community develop a relationship with Thurman’s work.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Season Four
\nBuilding Bridges<\/a><\/h2>\n

This season, we took time to speak with people who are bridging the gap between technology and the humanities by implementing new tools and methods in their own projects. Season Four invites voices from undergraduates and graduate students working in the digital humanities<\/span>, <\/b>who speak to <\/span>intrinsic connection between technology and humanistic inquiry. <\/b><\/p>\n

In Episode One, Center staff member Roni Lakin (\u201925)<\/b><\/a> interviews<\/span> Elizabeth Kostina (\u201824), current BU undergraduate, co-founder of BU\u2019s <\/span>Armchair Journal<\/b><\/a>, and digital scholar. The conversation explores the role of AI in scholarship and the expansion of the art history canon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In Episode Two, Center Associate Director<\/span> Margarita Guillory<\/b><\/a> interviews<\/span> Adrienne Vancura, a postdoc studying biomedical sciences at MIT, and Silvia Miotti<\/a><\/strong>, a BU PhD student in Classics, on how to connect ideas across disciplines.
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\"\"Season Three
\nInspiring Stories from BU Humanities<\/a><\/h2>\n

After turning outward to listen to conversations with major memoirists recounting their experiences of the Black Diaspora and global migration, Season Three turns inward to listen to the stories of two outstanding members of the humanities community at BU. Season Three features conversations<\/a><\/strong> with an undergraduate student and a faculty member, who reflect on their personal odysseys in community service, academia, and education, writ large. They discuss the ideas that inspired them and drew them into university life, the mentors who supported them, and their ambitions for the future, as scholars, teachers, and reformers at BU and in the larger society.<\/p>\n

In Episode One, Center staff member <\/span>Roni Lakin (\u201925)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0interviews\u00a0<\/span>Neva\u00e8h Calliste (\u201926)<\/strong>, current BU undergraduate, and founder of Survivor\u2019s Awareness<\/strong><\/a>, on her transition to college and her continuing service work.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Episode Two, Center Director Susan Mizruchi<\/strong>\u00a0interviews Associate Professor of Religion and African American & Black Diaspora Studies\u00a0<\/span>Margarita Guillory<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on her journey from STEM to scholarship in the humanities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Season Two
\nMigration Memoirs in the Global Age<\/a><\/h2>\n

At a time once more when skepticism about the contribution of immigrants to the success of the American story has become widespread, memoirists have seized the opportunity to remind us that migration stories are American stories, and migrants part of the lifeblood of the United States. Season Two features three conversations<\/a><\/strong> with authors who have written books relating personal stories of migrating from the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia, on their way to becoming Americans.<\/p>\n

In Episode One, Junot Diaz<\/strong>\u00a0interviews Dan-el Padilla Peralta<\/strong>\u00a0about his memoir, Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

In Episode Two, Claire Messud<\/strong> interviews Roya Hakakian<\/strong> about her book, A Beginner\u2019s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In Episode Three, Sianne Ngai<\/strong>, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago interviews poet and professor of English and creative writing at Rutgers-Newark University Cathy Park Hong<\/strong> on her memoir, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Season One
\nBlack Memoirs in the Global Age<\/a><\/h2>\n

As we engage with an increasingly diverse array of media, life stories told from personal perspectives\u2014memoirs\u2014continue to captivate the public\u2019s imagination. \u00a0In Season One, three authors share their stories<\/a><\/strong> across three continents contending with mental health, overcoming the challenges of growing up, and navigating the opportunities and perils of lives lived as public intellectuals. They relate the joys, and the challenges of being African, Caribbean, and American\u2014the doubleness of being both Black and diasporic\u2014in the United States today.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Episode One, Sandro Galea<\/strong> interviews Bassey Ikpi<\/strong> about her memoir, I\u2019m Telling the Truth, but I\u2019m Lying.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In Episode Two, Patricia Williams<\/strong>\u00a0interviews\u00a0<\/span>Orlando Patterson<\/strong>\u00a0about his 2019 book,\u00a0<\/span>The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Episode Three, Caryl Phillips <\/strong>interviews Louis Chude-Sokei <\/strong>about his 2021 book, Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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