2018-19 Graduate Dissertation Fellows at the Rudolf Wagner (R) with audience member at “Recording Student Awards Ceremony Lives: Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age”

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 2017 - 2018 MISSION STATEMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS Arianne Chernock, History The University Center for the Humanities works to promote and enhance the work of David Eckel, Religion humanities scholars at . We Letter from the Director ...... 4 grant research fellowships to junior and senior Walter Hopp, Philosophy Jeffrey Henderson Senior Faculty Fellows ...... 5 faculty, enabling them to complete scholarly Christopher Maurer, Romance Studies projects. We bring distinguished scholars to Junior Faculty Fellows ...... 6 Boston to participate in departmental and Fallou Ngom, Anthropology interdisciplinary programs including seminars, Graduate Dissertation Fellows ...... 7 Anita Patterson, English lecture series, exhibitions, and performances. We fund special library acquisitions, cover costs Fall Forum 2017 - Libraries & Archives ...... 8 Peter Schwartz, World Languages & associated with publications, and award prizes Literatures to outstanding undergraduates and graduate BUCH Programming ...... 10 Kim Sichel, History of Art & Architecture students. In practice and in theory, we define the humanities not as a finite list of departments, but Funded Projects ...... 14 James Uden, Classical Studies as an expansive and flexible mode of inquiry, and we welcome faculty and students from many Library Acquistion Awards ...... 18 departments and colleges who share a common STAFF Publication Production Awards ...... 18 interest in issues of interpretation and value. Susan Mizruchi, Director Tamzen Flanders, Administrator Incoming Fellows ...... 19 Mary Curran, Administrative Coordinator Hannah Kinney-Kobre, Student Staff Fall Forum 2018 - Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis ...... 20 Daria Lugina, Student Staff

2 3 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR JEFFREY HENDERSON SENIOR FACULTY FELLOWS The second year (2017-2018) of my directorship of the BU Center for the Humanities has seen a dramatic expansion of our programming and initiatives, as we focus on extending Sarah T. Philips the Center’s reach locally, nationally, and globally. At the Associate Professor, English same time, our events at BU are shaped increasingly by The Price of Plenty: From Farm to Food Politics in Postwar America the needs of our student, faculty, and public constituencies. To expose our students to life and work as humanists both within and beyond academia we launched programs for undergraduates—summer publishing internships at Oxford University Press in New York City and our monthly “HumaniTeas” gatherings—and organized a campus Paul Katsafanas visit by the President of OUP, Niko Pfund. Next fall our Associate Professor, Philosophy undergraduate programming will include workshops for The Secular Afterlife of the Sacred students writing theses in humanities fields and sessions on graduate school in the humanities.

This year we also instituted a summer internship program for humanities graduate students, collaborating with the Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs to create a complement to our Graduate Dissertation Fellowships, that provides professional opportunities outside of the Jonathan Klawans academy. We will continue to encourage undergraduate and graduate student participation in all Professor, Religion and Judaic Studies of our BUCH programs and events: for example, we are including a pop-up student art exhibit in Heresies, Forgeries, and Novelties: Constructing and Crossing the our fall forum, “Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis.” Boundaries of Ancient Judaism The heart of our enterprise remains supporting BU’s humanities faculty through project awards, fellowships, publishing stipends, and other types of funding. In particular, the Fellows’ Seminar, comprised each semester of faculty and graduate students on research leaves funded by the Center, remains at the center of our mission. The intellectual energy and generosity on display Gregory Williams during the weekly meetings is always a pleasure to see, as is the transformation of each group Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture from a disparate collection of researchers into a democratic community of scholars. In the fall 2017 Carlfriedrich Claus: Drawing, Writing, and Instrumental Thinking in seminar, Professor Gregory Williams (History of Art & Architecture) introduced us to the innovative creations of an East-German post-Bauhaus tradition, which directs viewers outward to the edges the German Democratic Republic of the art work and Professor Sarah Phillips (History) explained how agricultural legislation in the 20th c. U.S. reveals changing ideas about the value of natural resources. In the spring 2018 seminar, Professor Jonathan Klawans (Religion) demonstrated how the concepts of heresy and forgery informed the transition from Judaism to Christianity and graduate student Gregory Chase Teena Purohit (English) revealed the ways in which the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein illuminates literary Associate Professor, Religion modernism. As to new faculty programs, we plan to continue our “Second-Book Workshop” in Making Islam Modern spring 2019 because the many faculty participants found it so helpful and motivating.

And we look forward especially to our second major Humanities Center forum on the Opioid Crisis, in the fall of 2018, featuring a Friday night panel on October 12 introduced by President Robert Brown and moderated by WBUR health reporter Martha Bebinger (MA, BU English) and including public officials such as Mayor Martin Walsh and scholars, Elaine Scarry (English, Harvard) and Michael Zell Samuel Kelton Roberts (History, Columbia). Subsequent panels on Saturday, October 13 will Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture feature, among others, Michael Botticelli, Head of the Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine; The Poetics of the Mirror and the Image of the Beloved in Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and BU humanities faculty including Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting Benjamin Siegel, Amy Appleford, and James Uden. We hope you will save the date and join us, and also follow the life of the Center and the humanities at BU and in the world more generally. -- Susan Mizruchi, Director 4 5 JUNIOR FACULTY FELLOWS GRADUATE DISSERTATION FELLOWS

Benjamin Siegel Lara Ayad Assistant Professor, History History of Art & Architecture The Nation in Pain: American Bodies and Indian Pharmaceuticals Picturesque Peasants: Painting Egyptian Identity at the Fouad I in an Age of Distress Agricultural Museum in Cairo

Michael Birenbaum Quintero Gregory Chase Associate Professor, Musicology & Ethnomusicology English Fierce Joy: Sound, Violence, and Community in the Ashes of “The Silent Soliloquy of Others”: Language and Acknowledgment in Politics Modernist Fiction, 1910-52

Alexander (Sasha) Nikolaev Caitlin Dalton Assistant Professor, Classical Studies History of Art & Architecture Grammar of Poetry: Artificial Language in Early Greek Epic Imprinting Art and Ideology: Memory and Pedagogy in the Early German Democratic Republic

Alexis Peri Daniel Libatique Assistant Professor, History Classical Studies Fraternizing with the Enemy: Soviet-American Friendships amid Tereus, Procne, and Philomela: Speech, Silence, and the Voice of Cold War Gender

Kimberly Arkin Alex MacConochie Assistant Professor, Anthropology English Naturalizing the Social or Socializing the Natural? Race, Sex, and Touch and Gesture in Early Modern Drama Catholic Secularism in France

The core of the intellectual community supported by the Boston University development of their careers and engages the larger questions of culture and Center for the Humanities is the Fellows’ Seminar. This group, which has been imagination that the humanities have always examined. Since 2008, the Jeffrey in continuous existence since 1984, serves as a forum for research, debate, and Henderson Senior Research Fellows have also participated in the seminar, public dialogue among humanities faculty from different disciplines and between which gathers bi-weekly to discuss work in progress by one or more of its junior and senior faculty. The seminar assists Junior Research Fellows in the members.

6 7 LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES IN THE DIGITAL AGE OCT 5 - 7, 2017

On October 5-7, the BU Center for the Humanities hosted its inaugural forum, Recording Lives: Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age, cosponsored by the Harriett Green is Head of Scholarly Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian Boston Public Library and the Boston Athenæum. Communication and Publishing, Scholarly writer, translator, editor, and critic, as well as Communication and Publishing Librarian, and the director of the National Library of Argentina. The role of archives and libraries in the digital age is one Associate Professor, University Library at the His presentation addressed questions such as: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. How can a national library serve readers and of the most pressing concerns of humanists, scholars, She discussed the ways in which library and non-readers alike? Is it possible for a national and citizens worldwide. Questions of what to record and information professionals can engage with library to convert non-readers into readers, how to record it touch the very core of who we are as faculty in research collaborations, and how and furthermore, to transform perceptions held individuals, cultures, and nations. Now, more than ever, initiatives for educating practitioners and by many non-readers that libraries are alien scholars across the university in digital methods territories? What are the prospects for turning the accessibility of curated historical information, the are critical to this aim. the contemporary library into an effective sharing of resources, and the uses of digitization raise democratic intellectual space? questions central to democratic society. This forum brought together specialists from academia, public and the Digital Future,” in the newly renovated Rabb Hall at the Boston Public Library libraries, governmental agencies, and philanthropic and Christopher Ricks provided commentary. This was followed by two days of panels in and commercial archives to pursue common questions the Law School Auditorium on BU’s Charles River Campus, which included scholars and Kirsten Weld is the John L. Loeb about value across the institutional boundaries that practitioners in the fields of archives and libraries such as Alberto Manguel, Director of Associate Professor of the Social typically separate us. the National Library of Argentina, David Ferriero, the 10th National Archivist of the U.S., Sciences in the Department of and Jeannette Bastian of Simmons School of Library and Information Sciences. History at Harvard University. Her presentation explored efforts The forum was launched with an event at the to secure citizen access to the Boston Athenæum, “Recording Lives at Lightning Our fall forums are continuous intellectual enterprises that will shape and contribute to archives of Cold War regimes Speed,” featuring panelists from the Athenæum, programming and scholarship for years to come. In keeping with this, the Center is at in Latin America. The opening work on a book collection of essays from the 2017 forum. In addition, the center hosted of such state records is now the Congressional Library & Archives, the Handel recognized as essential to the and Haydn Society, Historic Newton, Mount Auburn two follow-up events to the forum this year: a screening of Fredrick Wiseman’s newest restoration of justice in the post- Cemetery, and the Mellon Sawyer Seminars at BU, to film, Ex Libris, followed by a Q&A with Wiseman himself, and a roundtable discussion of war, post-dictatorship era of discuss how local cultural and academic organizations archival work, “A Report from the Archives,” featuring speakers from The HistoryMakers®, Latin America, and civil society the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, and BU Faculty from CAS and COM. movements have fought ardently are deploying digital technologies to provide or expand for their release. access to their collections and engage more diverse audiences. On Thursday evening, October 5, Robert In 2020, BUCH will return to the theme of Libraries and Archives for the annual fall forum, Darnton delivered a public lecture, “Libraries, Books, when the three-year cycle recommences. 8 9 Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton Students at the Niko Pfund Workshop with Professor Susan Mizruchi

SECOND BOOK WORKSHOP ing to a large student (and faculty) au- neys of the protagonists. Faris and Dayton from the October 2017 forum, “Recording On October 13 - 14, 2017 BUCH spon- dience in , he reflected led a Q&A after the screening, where they Lives,” panelists highlighted the relation- sored a Second Book Workshop for on his career in publishing and drew described the film as a period piece: “You ship between technology and archives, and faculty led by Suzanne Ryan, Editor on these reflections to offer advice on can step out and watch it as a viewer would discussed how archival collections serve to in Chief of Humanities at Oxford Uni- finding a vocation and building a satis- have watched it in 1973.” In response to prevent marginalized cultures from being versity Press. In a seminar for partici- fying life. The next morning, Pfund led audience questions, they discussed their erased. During the Q&A that followed, pan- pants on the first day of the workshop, a seminar for undergraduates where experiences as a husband-wife director elists and audience members contemplat- Ryan covered the nuts and bolts of ac- he discussed his personal experience team, their relationship to Billie Jean King ed the varied purposes of the archive—as ademic publishing from early drafts to and anticipated the future of the pub- (a BU Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters a place of law and authority as well as a finished books, addressing strategies lishing industry. Students came away recipient in 2008), and their thoughts both source of wonderment. for locating suitable presses and edi- with an understanding of publishing on changing film-viewing practices with the tors, the submission and vetting pro- as an exciting and broad-ranging field decline of cinema attendance, and on their EX LIBRIS SCREENING cess, and editing timelines, as well as that is undergoing major changes that roles as independent film makers in an era On February 7, 2018, renowned documen- broader issues such as the use of pub- are creating opportunity for those who of blockbuster films. tarian Frederick Wiseman visited BU for a licity firms and social media, and the pursue it. screening of his award-winning 2017 doc- future of the scholarly monograph. On ARCHIVES ROUNDTABLE umentary, Ex-Libris, about the New York the second day, Ryan met individual- BATTLE OF THE SEXES On February 6, 2018, BUCH hosted “Report Public Library system, and how it contrib- ly with participants, providing advice SCREENING from the Archives,” a round table discussion utes to the lives of New Yorkers from all on their pre-submitted proposals, and Little Miss Sunshine directors Val- of archival work, featuring speakers from backgrounds and walks of life. Through the discussing their specific questions and erie Faris and Jonathan Dayton came The HistoryMakers®, the Howard Gotlieb film’s stunning portrait of the social center publishing goals. to BU on December 7, 2017 to host Archival Research Center and BU faculty, that the contemporary urban library has a screening of their new film, Battle including Dick Lehr, Professor of Journal- become, Wiseman’s work provides the hu- WORKSHOP WITH NIKO PFUND of the Sexes, which dramatizes the ism, Walter Fluker, Martin Luther King Jr. man dimension for the ideas and theories BUCH PROGRAMMING BUCH On November 16, 2017, Niko Pfund, eponymous landmark tennis match Professor of Ethical Leadership, and Chris- of the October 2017 “Recording Lives” fo- the president of Oxford University between Billie Jean King and Bobby tine D’Auria, PhD student in American and rum, showing how libraries and archives Press USA, travelled to BU to give a Riggs. The film explores the sexual New England Studies. Louis Chude-Sokei, function on a daily basis. While Wiseman presentation entitled “22 Things I Wish politics surrounding the event and fol- Director of the African American Studies is notoriously reticent about his filmmaking I Had Known When I Was 22.” Speak- lows both the public and private jour- 10 Program, moderated. Developing ideas methods, he provided some jewels of 11 ments will work at the OUP offices on Madison Avenue as editorial assis- tants, helping to prepare manuscripts for production, devising publicity plans, and engaging in the daily tasks of the publishing industry. They will also at- tend OUP editorial meetings and par- ticipate in group activities with OUP in- terns from other universities. This joint initiative is part of an effort by BUCH to provide hands-on experience in Hu- manities careers for BU undergradu- ates, and of OUP New York to expand the pool of editing professionals at the entry level.

STIPEND SUPPORTED SUMMER INTERNSHIPS FOR PHD CANDIDATES Anna Henchman, English This year, BUCH joined with Daniel Christopher Ricks, & Director of Undergraduate Studies Core Curriculum Kleinman, Associate Provost for Grad- uate Affairs, to inaugurate a program insight for the students, faculty, and of five funded summer internships for HUMANiTeAS: experience in a British boarding school and community members in attendance. PhD candidates in the humanities at INFORMAL GATHERINGS FOR the formative teachers with contrary per- “When filming, you come across abso- BU. These internships are designed to UNDERGRADUATES spectives on interpreting literature helped lutely extraordinary things which you introduce humanities PhD students to In 2017/18 BUCH also instituted monthly to shape his own approach to scholarship don’t invent and you’re lucky enough career opportunities at institutions be- “HumaniTeas.” These Friday afternoon un- and teaching. Professor Henchman de- to be present when they occur, and yond academia. Located at leading in- dergraduate teas allow students with com- tailed her journey through different occupa- recognize how to use them,” he noted, stitutions throughout the Boston area, mon interests to meet, and also enable in- tions, and how she learned to ask on the adding that every film is the product of these internships will demonstrate, formal encounters between students and point of committing to a vocation whether extensive editing and orchestration of both to professionals at these institu- distinguished faculty, who share personal the profession and the people in it were materials. tions and to the students themselves, stories about finding their ways to careers helping her to express her best self. All what humanities graduate students in the humanities. Our first three Humani- three professors addressed student ques- UNDERGRADUATE PUBLISHING have to offer, and will also help our Teas featured Professor Jennifer Knust tions and concerns, particularly those bear- INTERNSHIPS WITH OXFORD students to understand their academic (Religion, WGS), Professor Christopher ing on post college options for humanities UNIVERSITY PRESS talents and skills in more far-reaching Ricks (Core Curriculum, Editorial Institute), majors. These events will continue in the This year the Center launched a pilot professional terms. During the sum- and Professor Anna Henchman (English). 2018-2019 school year with faculty guests program of paid publishing internships mer of 2018, five BU humanities PhD Professor Knust described her complex re- from different humanities disciplines.

BUCH PROGRAMMING BUCH at Oxford University Press USA’s of- students will hold internships at the lationship to her own religious upbringing fice in New York City. For eight weeks Boston Athenæum, the Boston Public and how this was reconciled with her even- during the summer of 2018, four BU Library, the Boston Red Sox, the Gard- tual study of Religion as an academic disci- undergraduates from different depart- ner Museum, and the Mayor’s Office. pline. Professor Ricks spoke about how his

12 13 Presenters at “Comparative Hentyle Yapp and Jasmine Johnson at Performer at Yogic Practices Karamazov: East” Panel F-Words: A Queer Symposium

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV dent panel, presenting close readings THE PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOK & THEY the Department of Ethnomusicology and On April 7, 2018, the Department of of the novel. WERE ALWAYS MARCHING: AFRICAN- Musicology Professor, Brita Heimarck, World Languages & Literatures pre- AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE CIVIL combined scholarly presentations, a yoga sented “Worlds of The Brothers Kara- EVIDENCE + NARRATIVE IN RIGHTS MOVEMENT workshop, and musical performance. The mazov,” the third in an annual series ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY In conjunction with the exhibition “Let Us conference opened with papers by three of one-day departmental symposia This conference, organized by Profes- March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Sanskrit scholars on the historical and lit- on “Big Fat Books.” The symposium sor Daniel Abramson of the Depart- Pilgrimage for Freedom” in the Boston Uni- erary roots of Indian yogic traditions. Next, marked the culmination of student ment of History of Art & Architecture, versity Art Galleries’ Stone Gallery from scholars of religion and ethnomusicology and faculty study of Dostoevsky’s final brought scholars from Europe and the February 2 to March 25, 2018, the College discussed their philosophically-ground- novel, The Brothers Karamazov, both United States to BU for two days of of Fine Arts organized two interdisciplinary ed ethnographic research on contempo- in Professor Yuri Corrigan’s spring se- events. Most prominent among them panels to foreground the long-range and rary practice in both India and the United mester course and in the department was a March 23 public symposium immediate historical issues raised by the States. This was followed by panels ex- of WLL more generally, where reg- where participants discussed the use exhibit. These panel discussions, led by ploring diverse kirtan practices in commu- ular meetings were held throughout of evidence in architectural history, historians, art historians, and contempo- nities across the US and the contemporary the year to explore the novel’s signif- and how narrative methods in the field rary artists, illuminated the complexity of experimental music grounded in yogic tra- icance across disciplines and literary compare to those of other fields in the Lee Friedlander’s images while detailing ditions. In keeping with the conference’s traditions. The keynote speakers for humanities, arts, sciences, and social the history of the Civil Rights Movement. ongoing effort to balance practice and the event were Robin Feuer Miller sciences. How do architectural histori- scholarship, the afternoon concluded with

(Brandeis University) and Gary Saul ans draw on evidence for shaping their YOGIC TRADITIONS AND SACRED a Nada Yoga workshop and then a keynote FUNDED PROJECTS FUNDED Morson (Northwestern University). arguments and stories? And what are SOUND PRACTICES address, “Understanding Indian Sacred Their lectures were followed by BU the best ways for architectural histori- This full-day conference on April 6, 2018, Sound Concepts and Liturgical, Musical, or faculty panels on “Comparative Kara- ans to share their knowledge and ideas presented by the Center for the Study of Ritual Practices in the American Context.” mazov: West” and “East,” and a stu- with scholars in other disciplines? Asia and organized by CFA Professor from

14 15 Daniel Abramson, History of Patricia Johnson, Classical James Siemon, English Art & Architecture Studies Folger Library, Dues and Evidence and Narrative in Graduate Student Conference Travel Architectural History in Classical Studies Kate Snodgrass, Playwrights’ Lanfranco Aceti, MET Arts Paul Katsafanas, Philosophy Theatre Administration Workshop on Late Modern Boston Theater Marathon XVI Crossroads (Choreographies) Philosophy Massachusetts Young Playwright’s Project “New Lynne Allen, School of Visual Jennifer Knust, Religion Noise” Arts & BU Art Galleries Faculty Gender and Sexuality Rosenburgs - An Opera Let Us March On Studies Group: Sedgwick Lecture Daniel Star, Philosophy Kimberly Arkin, Anthropology BU Ethics Seminar Religious Identities in Modern Pnina Lahav, Law Mediterranean Societies Hannah Arendt: Putative Lives Meg Tyler, CGS Humanities Lecture and Performance William Carroll, English Robert Murowchick, Series: Institute for the Study Willing Suspension Archaeology of Irish Culture Productions East Asian Archaeology Poetry Reading Series Forum–Public lecture series Phillis Levin from the Poetry Bettina Bergo speaking at the Louis Chude-Sokei, African Yoon Sun Yang, World Reading Series Phenomenology Circle American Studies Anita Patterson, English Languages & Literatures Race, Politics, and Social Lectures in Criticism In Search of New Horizons: THE ROSENBERGS: AN OPERA of Law at Seattle University, Spade is Media: A Symposium in African One Hundred Years of Modern The Rosenbergs: An Opera ran from a leading scholar of sexuality, trans- American Studies Jennifer Row, Romance Korean Literature Studies April 12-22, 2018 at the Boston Play- gender studies, and law, as well as an Yuri Corrigan, World Precarious Critique: Reading Catherine Yeh, World wrights’ Theatre and at Brandeis Uni- activist. Spade’s lecture, “How Social Languages & Literatures Race, Queerness, Disability Languages & Literatures versity. The April 14 performance was Movements Feel,” drew on the sense The Worlds of the Brothers Asian Cultural Heritage followed by a post-show conversation of political urgency that suffuses Sedg- Karamazov Jeffrey Rubin, History Chinese Translation Prize Seeing and Not Seeing Visiting Scholar: Xu Xing with the directors, writers, and cast. In- wick’s writings, which, as Spade not- Daniel Dahlstrom, Philosophy Seminar spired by the letters of Julius and Eth- ed, counter conventional demands for Boston Phenomenology Circle Jeremy Yudkin, Musicology/ el Rosenberg, who were executed for academic “objectivity.” As one under- (BPC) Symposium Charles Rzepka, English Ethnomusicology (CFA) espionage in 1953, this award-winning graduate attendee remarked, Dean Boston Area Romanticist Boston University Center for opera dramatized their romantic rela- Spade “made the whole process of Wiebke Denecke, World Colloquium Beethoven Research Series Languages & Literatures tionship. The production was the op- enacting our ideas about what society Seeking a Future for East Stephen Scully, Classical Michael Zell & Emine era’s North American debut. could and should be seem more fea- Asia’s Past: Workshops on Studies Fetvaci, History of Art & sible.” Other GenSex events includ- Sinographic Studies Boston Area Roman Studies Architecture BU FACULTY GENDER & ed reading groups on Spade’s work, Conference Boston University Graduate David Eckel, Religion Myth and Religion in the Symposium in the History of SEXUALITY STUDIES GROUP/ a graduate student seminar led by Institute of Philosophy & Ancient World Art & Architecture SEDGWICK MEMORIAL LECTURE Spade, and a lecture by Megan Good- Religion: “Philosophy and the This year’s Faculty Gender & Sexual- win on anti-Klan laws and their impact Future of Religion” Sunil Sharma, World

FUNDED PROJECTS FUNDED ity Studies Group (GenSex) focused on the policing of black women. Languages & Literatures on “Intersectional Bodies: Race, Sex, Brita Heimarck, Musicology/ Old Forms for New: Ethnomusicology (CFA) Comparative Persianate and Gender.” Dean Spade delivered Yogic Traditions and Sacred Aesthetics the annual Sedgwick Memorial Lec- Sound Practices ture on March 29, 2018. A professor 16 17 LIBRARY ACQUISITION AWARDS Victor Coelho, CFA Musicology Vika Zafrin, Mugar Library Digitizing CFA Programs for OpenBU

INCOMING FELLOWS William Moore, American and New England Studies Stephanie Wical, Mugar Library ProQuest: American Jewish Newspapers

Alexander Nikolaev, Classical Studies Steve Smith, Mugar Library Kratylos: Annual Review of Indo-European and General Linguistics

Andrew Robichaud, History Donald Altschiller, Mugar Library Speakers from the Phenomenology Circle AAS Historical Periodicals

Catherine Yeh, World Languages & Literatures Mark Lewis, Geddes Center JEFFREY HENDERSON SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWS Chinese Language Films Kecia Ali Religion

PUBLICATION PRODUCTION AWARDS Japonica Brown-Saracino Sociology Marié Abe, CFA, Musicology/Ethnomusicology Daniel Dahlstrom Philosophy Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sounding Space and Spatiality in Contemporary Japan Keith Vincent World Languages & Literatures Gavin Benke, CAS Writing Program Jonathan Zatlin History Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism

Seth Blumenthal, CAS Writing Program Children of the Silent Majority: Youth Politics and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1964-1980 JUNIOR FACULTY FELLOWS

Charles Chang, Romance Studies LEXTALE_CH: A Quick, Character-Based Proficiency Test for Mandarin Chinese Marc Gasser-Wingate Philosophy

Jodi Cranston, History of Art & Architecture Saida Grundy Sociology Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice April Hughes Religion Adela Pineda, Romance Studies Steinbeck y Mexico Andrew Robichaud History

Ana María Reyes, History of Art & Architecture Dis-Cursis: Beatriz González and the Critique of Modernization in 1960s Columbia GRADUATE DISSERTATION FELLOWS Adam Seligman, Religion What Counts as the Same: Memory, Metaphor and Mimesis in Social Life Christina An History of Art & Architecture Andrew Shenton, CFA, Musicology Maité Cruz Tleugabulova Philosophy Arvo Pärt’s Resonant Texts: Choral and Organ Music 1956-2015 Pardis Dabashi English Nina Silber, History Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America Pamela Feo Musicology

18 19 HUMANITIES FEATURED PANELISTS APPROACHES TO THE Upcoming OPIOID CRISIS OCT 12 - 13, 2018

Our annual BUCH Fall Forums are designed as “open air markets” in the classical sense, that further the free exchange of ideas among scholars in humanities fields and other professionals and practitioners who rarely come together to discuss social problems and their prospective solutions. Our subject in 2017 was “Libraries Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of and Archives in the Digital Age”; our 2018 forum will treat School of Public Health, is an emergency Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value “Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis,” and our physician and epidemiologist. He is the at Harvard University, is an essayist and former Chair of Epidemiology at the Columbia literary critic. Her interests include Theory of topic in 2019 is “Sexual Politics.” University Mailman School of Public Health. Representation, the Language of Physical Prior to his academic career in public health, Pain, and Structure of Verbal and Material By collaborating with colleagues beyond the College of Dr. Galea practiced emergency medicine in Making in Art, Science and the Law. She was Arts & Sciences at BU (the Boston Public Library and the Canada and served in Somalia with Doctors formerly Professor of English at the University Without Borders. of Pennsylvania. Boston Athenæum for the Libraries Forum; area schools of public health and medicine, and city, state, and federal hit especially hard in Massachusetts. The problems associated with it are complex, Nora D. Volkow, M.D., became government for the Opioids Forum), we seek to initiate and while people from many different fields have weighed in, we see a unique role for Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the local, national, and global conversations with experts at the humanities to play in addressing these problems. National Institutes of Health in both academic and non-academic institutions. May 2003. NIDA supports most Historians have written transnational histories of the U.S. drug markets and philosophers of the world’s research on the The goal is to share knowledge and skills in order have explored the ethical status of addictive states, the moral obligation of societies health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. Dr. Volkow’s to address social crises that require us to marshal to those suffering from addiction, and the role that societal structures play in fostering work has been instrumental in every analytic and aesthetic concept. We believe addictive behaviors. But no humanities field has been more directly engaged with demonstrating that drug addiction that humanities fields can offer language that builds the subject of addiction than literary studies. Some of the greatest Anglo-American is a disease of the human brain. bridges across institutional and disciplinary borders, literature—in memoir, poetic, dramatic, and prose form—is fundamentally concerned As a research psychiatrist and scientist, Dr. Volkow pioneered providing innovative thinking and perspectives that are with addiction. the use of brain imaging to complementary to non-humanities disciplines, as well as investigate the toxic effects and to work in philanthropic, governmental, and commercial The humanities fields offer original insights not only into the more obvious social stigma addictive properties of abusable arenas. associated with addiction, but the much harder-to-define subjective experience that drugs. has such profound implications for treatment and policy. The forum seeks to more Addiction is perhaps the most significant, highly public fully integrate work by humanists into the thinking of the medical community and and intractable social problem of the decade, and it has governmental officials who are on the front lines in addressing these problems. 20 21 © 2017 - 2018