BU Events Calendar
Center for the Humanities (October 19 through November 5)
Wednesday, October 19
- 12:30 PM BUCH Fellows' Seminar
- 4:00 PM Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series: Approaching the End of the World: Geological Age or Historical Epoch?
- The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory after Hegel
Thursday, October 20
- 9:00 AM Digital Humanities Seminar: Mapping Group Preliminary Presentations and Discussion
- 12:00 PM East Asian Archaeology Forum (EAAF) Lecture
- 2:00 PM Can Art Fight War? A Presentation on the Siege of Leningrad by Polina Barskova
- 4:00 PM Sectarianism and Coexistence in the Modern Middle East
- 5:00 PM Lectures in Criticism -- talk by Sharon Cameron
- 5:30 PM Russian Voices: An Evening of Poetry & Music with Polina Barskova, Olga Lisovska and more!
- Tertulia: Neil Myler (Linguistics)
- 7:00 PM Conversations with Christopher Ricks: What Is The Difference Between Poetry and Song?
Monday, October 24
Tuesday, October 25
- 5:00 PM From Combahee to Black Lives Matter: Black Queer Politics, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Thursday, October 27
- 9:00 AM Digital Humanities Seminar: Database/Network Group Preliminary Presentations and Discussion
- 5:00 PM GORE-FEST: A Halloween Reading of Greek Tradgedy
- Muslim Thought and Practice in South Asia Conference
Friday, October 28
- 11:00 AM Blacks in the Bible Workshop
Wednesday, November 2
- 12:30 PM BUCH Fellows' Seminar: Eva Pascal
- 4:00 PM Dante's Divine Comedy: from Despair to Hope to Glory
Thursday, November 3
- 9:00 AM Digital Humanities Seminar: Money vs. Time
- 5:30 PM Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
Friday, November 4
- 4:00 PM Lecture- Jon Stewart
- 6:00 PM Cinematheque: Evening with Mickey Keating and Valerie Krulfeifer
Saturday, November 5
- 9:30 AM Worlds of The Tale of Genji