Boston University Center for the Humanities Podcast

The Legacy of Howard Thurman

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:49:41 GMT

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Anthony Petro on Religious Imagery, Queer Art, and the Culture Wars

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:08:26 GMT

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Glenn Street on Proofs, Beauty, and Data

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:35:27 GMT

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Adrienne Vancura and Silvia Miotti on Connecting Across Disciplines

Thu, 23 May 2024 15:53:55 GMT

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Elizabeth Kostina on Working with Digital Tools

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:17:04 GMT

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Margarita Guillory on Her Journey to the Humanities

Tue, 09 May 2023 18:13:10 GMT

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Neveah Calliste on Survivor's Awareness

Tue, 09 May 2023 18:10:10 GMT

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Part Two of Cathy Park Hong on her memoir Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:38:01 GMT

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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Part One of Cathy Park Hong on her memoir Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:34:22 GMT

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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Roya Hakakian on her book A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious.

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 03:46:43 GMT

In a country that both embraces and type-casts them, especially recently when animus against immigrants has been a prominent feature of public discourse, the discussion explicates the ambiguities of newly arrived refugees in the United States.

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Part Two of Dan-el Padilla Peralta on his memoir Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League. PART TWO

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 03:40:32 GMT

Excavating experiences of hollowed-out public amenities, crushing carcerality, uncaring government bureaucracy, and the complexities of being both Black and Latinx, the conversation traverses the challenges of growing up in New York City’s Dominican diaspora

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Part One of Dan-el Padilla Peralta on his memoir Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League. PART ONE

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 03:12:41 GMT

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Louis Chude-Sokei on his memoir Floating in a Most Peculiar Way

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:34:06 GMT

Caryl Phillips, Professor of English at Yale, interviews Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English and Director of The African American Studies Program at Boston University about his 2021 book, Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir

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Orlando Patterson on his book on Jamaica, The Confounding Island

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:58:55 GMT

Professor Patricia Williams of Northeastern University interviews Professor Orlando Patterson of Harvard University on his book The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament. The wide-ranging interview covers a variety of topics including slavery, social death, colonialism, post-colonialism, gender, and Afro-pessimism in both Jamaica and the United States.

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Bassey Ikpi on her memoir I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:34:27 GMT

In this inaugural episode, Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health, interviews Nigerian-American writer and activist Bassey Ikpi on her memoir “I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying” about living with bipolar II and anxiety and advocating for mental health.

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