Marsh Chapel, 735 Commonwealth Avenue Directed by Rabbi Norman Janis of the Harvard Hillel. Featuring the Marsh Chapel Choir (Scott Jarrett, Choirmaster) and Jubal’s Lyre. Cosponsored by the Core Curriculum at Boston University.
Professor Del Kolve UCLA Department of English Del Kolve is an Emeritus faculty member of the Department of English at UCLA. His research interests include the work of Geoffrey Chaucer and the visual arts in the Middle Ages. He is the author of Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales and […]
Professor Diana Wylie Boston University Department of History Using text and images, Professor Wylie will mark the tenth anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections. She will base her observations on a biography she is currently writing about a South African artist, as well as on frequent research trips to that country.
Laure Murat, Winner of France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt The notion of “confession” is a common theme in the 19th century that uncovers many of the century’s anxieties and strategies of power related to its unceasing questioning of the links between morality and science. The birth of psychiatry in the 19th century instituted a system of […]
Professor Jacqueline Osherow University of Utah Department of English Jacqueline Osherow teaches poetics and Hebrew Bible and literature in the Department of English at the University of Utah. She has published several collections of poetry, including Dead Men’s Praise (Grove 1999), Conversations with Survivors (Georgia 1994), and Looking for Angels in New York (Georgia, 1988).
Professor John Clayton, The University of Massachusetts The University of Massachusetts and Mt. Holyoke College, Departments of English A short story reading and lecture by Professor Clayton of his own work, “The Contract.”
The Amos Wilder Lecture in Scripture and Literary Arts Gabriel Josipovici, Author of The Book of God: A Response to the Bible Gabriel Josipovici, renowned novelist, dramatist, and literary critic, is perhaps best known for his examination of the literary nature of the Scriptures. The lecture will be a continued exploration of questions raised in his The […]
An evening of readings and performances from Genesis 2 and 3 by faculty and students from Boston University. Readers: Archie Burnett, Editorial Institute; Bonnie Costello, Department of English; Kathe Darr, School of Theology; Abigail Gillman, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures; Shahla Haeri, Women’s Studies Program; Geoffrey Hill, University Professors; Shakir Mustafa, Department of […]
An evening of readings by faculty and students from Boston University. Texts are drawn from and inspired by the first biblical creation story in Genesis 1.