Category: Upcoming Events
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Area Conference: 1776 in Perspective
October 2nd–3rd, 2026 The Bucknell Humanities Center is excited to host a two-day symposium exploring the nation’s founding from diverse, cross-disciplinary perspectives. Through our dynamic programming, faculty, students, staff, and community members will have the opportunity to reflect on and engage the import and legacies of 1776. Our discussions will be broad and capacious, highlighting…
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“(How) Do The Humanities Create Knowledge?”
Discoveries produced by natural science clearly exemplify what it means to create knowledge. But discovery is a social process — a process that closely resembles the practices that define scholarly activity in the humanities. In this provocative lecture, philosopher Chris Haufe will draw out unappreciated features of the development of scientific knowledge that highlight its…
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Arts & Humanities Convivial Hour