Category: Events
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The Science of Reading
The BHC is delighted to partner with Bertrand Library, as part of their 75th Anniversary Celebratory Year to welcome Adrian Johns, Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Professor Johns will be discussing his recent book, The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America. Co-sponsored by Bucknell Humanities…
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Book Launch: Bret Leraul’s Study Without Ends
October 8th, 2026 — 4:30–6PMHildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room Professor Leraul will discuss his recently release book, Study Without Ends: Aesthetic Education in Neoliberal Latin America (Northwestern University Press, 2026). Calls for aesthetic education to unite cultural practices of radical imagination with everyday practices of care. While Latin America was neoliberalism’s laboratory, Argentina and Chile have been…
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1776 in Perspective: A Susquehanna Symposium
October 2nd–3rd, 2026 Professor Paul Barba (History, lead organizer) offered these remarks to open the Symposium: Thank you, everybody, for joining us today. For those who don’t know me, I’m Paul Barba, associate professor of history and the Humanities Center associate director here at Bucknell. I want to start off by saying that my co-organizers,…
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Sellars Lecture: Teresa Blankmeyer Burke on Deaf Bioethics
The Philosophy Department Presents the 2026 Roy Wood Sellars Lecture The Existential Threat to Signing Deaf Communities: Gene Therapy and Deaf Bioethics Teresa Blankmeyer BurkeProfessor of Philosophy, Gallaudet University October 15th, 2026 — 4:30–6PMELC Forum Recent developments in gene therapy have made it possible for some deaf children to hear. From the vantage point of…
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Panel Discussion: Today’s Odyssey
October 1st, 2026 — 4:30–6PMHildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room A distinguished panel of Bucknell scholars — Kate Bermingham (Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies), Brian Hauser (Film and Media Studies), Stephanie Larson (Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies), Anna Paparcone (Italian Studies), and John Rickard (emeritus, English) — gathered to discuss the Odyssey and its afterlife,…
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The Stranger (L’Étranger)
Tuesday, November 3rd @ 7PM
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Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d’un rêveur)
Monday, October 5th @ 7PM
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No Chains, No Masters (Ni chaînes, ni maitres)
Friday, September 11th @ 7PM
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“(How) Do The Humanities Create Knowledge?”
Matthew H. Slater, BHC Director Professor Christopher Haufe (Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of the Humanities and Chair of Philosophy Western Reserve University) kicked off this year’s public event series “Oh the Humanities!” with (what turned out to be) a provocative lecture addressing the question of how humanities disciplines generate knowledge. I hear…
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Arts & Humanities Convivial Hour
It was a beautiful day to officially begin the Bucknell Humanities Center’s academic year. The BHC staff was grateful for the camaraderie of many colleagues and students — importantly, from across the University. More than ever, Humanities faculty are counting on the interest and energy of those who believe in the value of the Humanities…