{"id":23980,"date":"2025-09-26T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?page_id=23980"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:27:56","slug":"lectures-in-criticism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/community\/lectures-in-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectures in Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 25px; color: #333;\">Since 1983, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lecturesincriticism\/\"><strong>Lectures in Criticism<\/strong><\/a> series has brought renowned humanities scholars to Boston University. BUCH has overseen the series since 2022. Each year it features a fall lecture by a BU faculty member and a spring lecture by an external scholar.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n<div style=\"background: #f5f4f1; padding: 20px 24px; border-radius: 6px; margin-bottom: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #5c5750;\">Upcoming lecture<\/span>\n<span style=\"font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; color: #c90e2d;\">[Date, time]<\/span>\n<strong style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4;\">\"Refocusing Evil\"<\/strong>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #333;\">Susan Neiman<\/span>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #5c5750;\">Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities<\/span>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #5c5750;\">[Location]<\/span><\/div>\n\n--><\/p>\n<h3>Recent Lectures<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li style=\"padding: 14px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e2e0dc;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; color: #c90e2d;\">Spring 2026<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Far Fetched: On the Poetry of Walking&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #333;\">Susan Stewart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #5c5750;\">Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and Professor of English, Emeritus, Princeton University<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 14px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e2e0dc;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; color: #c90e2d;\">Fall 2025<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lecturesincriticism\/fall-25-lecture\/\"><strong>&#8220;Towards a Social History of a Sacred City: Epistemological Challenges in Studying Teotihuacan, Mexico&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #333;\">David Carballo<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #5c5750;\">Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies, Boston University<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 14px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e2e0dc;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; color: #c90e2d;\">Spring 2025<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lecturesincriticism\/spring-2025\/\"><strong>&#8220;Art in the Shadow of Military Dictatorships in 1980s Nigeria&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #333;\">Chika Okeke-Agulu<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #5c5750;\">Robert Schirmer Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, Princeton University<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 14px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e2e0dc;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; color: #c90e2d;\">Fall 2024<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lecturesincriticism\/fall-24-lecture\/\"><strong>&#8220;On the Pleasures and Perils of Personhood: Slavery and Artificial Life&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #333;\">Louis Chude-Sokei<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #5c5750;\">Professor of English and Joyce Wein Chair in African American &amp; Black Diaspora Studies, Boston University<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 14px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e2e0dc;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; color: #c90e2d;\">2023\u201324<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;The Episodic Reception of Medieval Persian Women Poets&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #333;\">Sunil Sharma<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #5c5750;\">Professor of Persianate &amp; Comparative Literature; Director, Center for the Study of Asia; Director, Global Medieval Studies Program, Boston University<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 25px 0; color: #333;\">For lectures from 1983 to 2023, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lecturesincriticism\/past-lectures-2\/\">Lectures in Criticism archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1983, the Lectures in Criticism series has brought renowned humanities scholars to Boston University. 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