Boston University

Humanities

Professor Elie Wiesel sits talking with his teaching assistant, Ariel Burger.

Politics

Witness to Lessons of Elie Wiesel

November 12, 2018

Center for the Humanities panel on Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis

Addiction

Changing the Narrative on Opioids

October 15, 2018

Photo: Student researcher Elizabeth Hannigan, a white woman with long red hair tied into a braid and wearing a black tee shirt and jeans, poses at an archaeological site.

Gender

Examining a Woman’s Role—1,300 Years Ago

July 5, 2018

Déanna Clarke-Campbell (CAS’21) performs

Arts & Culture

Hamilton Music Gets an Infusion of New Voices

April 30, 2018

Louis Chude-Sokei

African Studies

Louis Chude-Sokei Wants African American Studies Program to Be a Central Place

April 26, 2018

Nicole Rizzo (CAS'18) directs actors at a recent performance.

Gender Studies

A Performance at the Intersection of Theater and Activism

April 24, 2018

Poetry

60 Seconds of Blackness

February 21, 2018

Timothy Longman with youth from Kabarondo, a village in the Eastern Province of Rwanda

Humanities

Telling the Truth about Rwanda

January 31, 2018

Arts & Culture

Office Artifacts: John Marston

January 24, 2018

Jodi Cranston, Professor of Renaissance art at Boston University and founder of historical art research website mappingpaintings.org

Humanities

Hidden Stories behind Art Masterpieces

November 1, 2017

1) Fallou Ngom, a CAS professor of anthropology and director of the African Studies Center, with Amadou Ndiaye, an Ajami and Arabic bookseller in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Photo courtesy of Ablaye Diakité

Science & Technology

Libraries and Archives Meet the Digital Age

October 5, 2017

Natalie McKnight

Literature

Please, Sir, I Want Some More Textual Analysis

July 14, 2017

Clarinda Blais teaches philosophy at the Women's Lunch Place homeless shelter via the Free Philosophy Project program

Aid

Teaching Philosophy to the Homeless

July 10, 2017

Sarah Phillips, associate professor of history at Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, and author of The Price of Plenty: From Farm to Food Politics in Postwar America

Arts & Culture

BU Center for Humanities Names New Fellows

July 5, 2017

Brian Woerner is equally at home offering a tasting at Follow The Honey in Cambridge or working with locals in Tanzania to help produce a sustainable supply of organic honey.

Food & Dining

A Global Taste of Honey for Questrom Grad Student

May 1, 2017

still life portrait of classic literature books and a violin symbolizing the arts

Humanities

POV: Doctor’s Orders, Don’t Cut Arts Funding

April 11, 2017

Andreas Xenopoulos with local children on the Paseo de Prado.

Spring Break

Cuban Culture Shapes a Spring Break Trip

March 20, 2017

Arctic Ground Squirrel

Archaeology

Arctic Squirrels: Invasive or Native Species?

February 22, 2017

Egyptologist Ava Forte Vitali speaking with a family with a mummy on the table

Religion

Archaeologists Reenact 19th-Century Mummy Ritual

October 31, 2016

photo of a ververt monkey

Anthropology

Why Do Monkeys Get Fat?

October 25, 2016

Why Do Monkeys Get Fat?