This week, our lecture is titled “Charles Darwin on the Races of Man.”  Our speaker is Dr. Joseph Graves, Dean of Biological Sciences at North Carolina A&T University.  The lecture was co-sponsored by Boston University’s African American Studies program and Department of History, the Humanities Foundation, and the Greater Boston Darwin Centennial.

This week, we have a reading and conversation titled “There Lives the Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things…”  The event is presented by Boston University’s Institute for Human Sciences, and, Center for International Relations, in cooperation with the literary journal AGNI.  Speaking will be poets Saskia Hamilton and Kieron Winn.  The moderator is Christopher Ricks, William [...]

This week, our lecture is titled “The Gender Revolution in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Mothers.”  The speaker is Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of American Civilization and Sociology at Brown University.  This lecture was sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, in cooperation with the Boston University Department of Sociology.

This week, we have a reading and conversation presented by Boston University’s Humanities Foundation, Institute for Human Sciences, and Center for International Relations, in cooperation with the literary journal AGNI.  The discussion is titled “Out of the Blue: Order From Chaos” and features British poet, playwright, and novelist, Simon Armitage.  Moderating the discussion is Boston Globe [...]