Find session slides, video recordings, and other materials from past events related to arts and humanities.
Research on Tap: AI and the Humanities (2025)
Artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of our lives, raising urgent questions about its implications for ethics, identity, and the health of our political and economic systems. At the same time, AI is opening new frontiers in humanities research—reshaping how we analyze complex texts, uncover historical insights, and approach critical fields like anthropology. At this […]
Research on Tap: How Social Policies Shape Our Lives from Birth to Old Age
Across the globe, governments are grappling with how to design policies that meet the needs of diverse and aging populations, address widening inequalities, and promote overall societal well-being. In the United States, debates over health care, economic safety nets, and education underscore the critical importance of evidence-based policy decisions. In this Research on Tap, we […]
Research for Change: Social Justice Scholarship from BU Graduate Fellows (2024)
In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the BU community is invited to a presentation of research talks highlighting scholarship from changemaking student researchers. Every year, Boston University awards a small number of prestigious graduate fellowships (honoring Clare Booth Luce, Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, Jr., and Lu Lingzi) to a select cohort […]
Research on Tap: BU and Africa (2024)
BU and Africa: Culture, Development, Health, Environment, and Governance Some are calling our times “the African Century” given the profound implications of the continent’s demographic transitions for African peoples and the world at large. By 2050, 2.5 billion people, more than 25 percent of all of the world’s population, will live in Africa, a number […]
Research on Tap: Creative Research (2018)
Standard research is about innovative thinking and practice, about making and testing assumptions, performing, proposing, speculating, asking questions and paving the way for new questions or propositions to be made next time. It is about the illumination of new knowledge around an identifiable theme and question, engaging with the known in new ways, constructing, proposing […]
Research on Tap: From Renaissance to Enlightenment (2016)
Hosted by James A. Winn, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English, and Director, Boston University Center for the Humanities. The Early Modern Period, roughly the three centuries from 1500 to 1800 CE, witnessed astonishing changes and developments in philosophy, religion, and all the arts. Boston University is fortunate to have a lively group of […]