Category: Past Events
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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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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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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…
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“Bonecrusher” and A&H Careers
Ben Barkofsky ’26, BHC Student Fellow
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Chris Mitsch, “AI and the Liberal Arts”
4:30–6PM Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room
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Film Screening: “Bonecrusher”
Screening of the documentary “Bonecrusher” followed by a Q&A with the director — Bucknell alumnus, Michael Fountain ’91 — and panel discussion with several members of the Humanities Center alumni advisory council about the role that the humanities played in their lives and careers.
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Crystal Wilkinson: “Sable Girls, Black Hill Folk and Brown Country”
Thursday, April 9, 2026: 4:30–6PM Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room