{"id":8067,"date":"2017-12-25T21:31:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T02:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/?page_id=8067"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:10:11","slug":"co-curriculars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/academics-community\/co-curriculars\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilachand Co-Curricular Events & Residencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

During their time at Kilachand, students engage in various co-curricular events that provide them with the opportunity to interact with committed, stimulating, and accomplished scholars, artists, and professionals. Co-curricular events engage students in the broader implications of the Kilachand curriculum and academic community and provide insight into the backstory of scientific, artistic, technological, and political activities.<\/p>\n

Co-curricular Events: <\/strong>Kilachand Co-curricular events bring guests to Kilachand for presentations or conversations or invite Kilachand students to visit leading local cultural institutions, typically with private tours and talks.<\/p>\n

Co-curricular Residencies:<\/b> Kilachand hosts one Co-curricular residency each semester. Guests spend a number of days at Boston University for a public lecture in addition to small events exclusive to Kilachand students such as talks, class visits, workshops, and more.<\/p>\n

Past Kilachand Co-curricular guests include:<\/h4>\n

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Piper Kerman <\/strong>is the author of the memoir <\/span>Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women\u2019s Prison<\/em> which was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning original series for Netflix. <\/span>Kerman is an advocate for prison reform and a graduate of Smith College. She visited Kilachand for a conversation with legal and humanities scholars.<\/p>\n

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Saladin K. Patterson <\/strong>is an Executive Producer of the FX comedy series DAVE<\/em> and completed three seasons as Co-Executive Producer of CBS’s The Big Bang Theory<\/em>. Patterson is an MIT alum with a degree in Electrical Engineering and joined students for the talk\u00a0 “Zigzagging in a Straight Line: My Journey from MIT to Hollywood” and an interview titled, “The Courage and Pace of Change”<\/p>\n

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Joy Hay<\/strong>\u00a0is a contemporary British American portrait painter. The overarching theme of her recent portraits is the acknowledgment of human courage. Hay joined us to share her series Persisters,<\/em>\u00a0an ongoing series of large-scale paintings representing trailblazing women in their pursuit of justice.<\/p>\n

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Hakeem Oluseyi\u00a0<\/strong>is an astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, and humanitarian. He is currently a professor of Physics & Space Science stationed at NASA. Oluseyi joined students for a breakfast Q&A session and a number of talks and conversations, focusing particularly on diversity in STEM fields and the benefits of a multidisciplinary education.<\/p>\n

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Werner Herzog <\/strong>\u00a0is an internationally acclaimed writer, director, and filmmaker whose career spans more than half a century. Hertzog joined students for a breakfast, a screening of Herbert Golder’s Ballad of a Righteous Merchant<\/em>\u00a0and lecture titled\u00a0“Every Man for Himself\u00a0and God Against All”<\/p>\n

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Min Jin Lee<\/strong>\u00a0is a Korean American author and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. Lee visited Kilachand for a book signing and talk about her NYT best-selling novel Pachinko, <\/em>which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.<\/p>\n

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Shamell Bell<\/strong> is an original organizing member of the #blacklivesmatter movement. She is also a mother, community organizer, dancer & choreographer and received a PhD in Culture and Performance at UCLA. Bell joined students for talks, workshops, and class visits during her Kilachand residency.<\/p>\n

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Zadie Smith\u00a0<\/strong>is a novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and professor of fiction at New York University. She is the renowned author of White Teeth, On Beauty,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Swing Time, <\/em>among other works. Smith visited Kilachand for talk entitled “On Writing” and a Q&A breakfast with students.<\/p>\n

Calendar<\/h4>\n

Co-curricular events are exclusively for Kilachand students and are not typically open to the public. However, please visit our calendar<\/a> for a sense of current and upcoming Kilachand Co-curricular events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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