Bucknell Humanities Center

Bucknell Humanities Center We host an annual themed programming series, support faculty and student research, and more.

The BHC is a hub of substantive, topic-driven conversations that extends the reach of the humanities into local communities via new partnerships and initiatives. WHO WE ARE

Staff:
- Matthew Slater, Director, Professor of Philosophy, [email protected]

- Paul Barba, Associate Director, Associate Professor of History, [email protected]

- Nina Olivetti, Academic Assistant, [email protected]

Communications Interns:

- Hailey Drapcho, [email protected]
- Jack Royal, [email protected]

🎞️A once-in-52-quintillion-lifetimes kind of night…Join us Monday, April 27th at 7pm for a free film screening of ENO — ...
04/24/2026

🎞️A once-in-52-quintillion-lifetimes kind of night…

Join us Monday, April 27th at 7pm for a free film screening of ENO — a generative documentary about musician and artist Brian Eno, directed by Gary Hustwit.

📽️ Experience it at the Campus Theatre in downtown Lewisburg.

Hosted by the Bucknell Film/Media Program & the Bucknell Humanities Center.

See you there. 🎬

Please join us for our semi-annual “Convivial Hour” this May 5th at 4:30PM. All are welcome; the humanities are for us a...
04/21/2026

Please join us for our semi-annual “Convivial Hour” this May 5th at 4:30PM. All are welcome; the humanities are for us all!



Congratulations to Bucknell Humanities Center fellow, Katie Schadler, for finishing her Honors Thesis! 👏"Imagined Afterl...
04/15/2026

Congratulations to Bucknell Humanities Center fellow, Katie Schadler, for finishing her Honors Thesis! 👏

"Imagined Afterlives: Anti-Black Medical Violences in Contemporary Black Arts"

She will be defending her thesis today, April 15th at 4:30pm in the Vaughan Literature Willard Smith Library, on Bucknell University campus.

📢 Don't miss this very timely event on the inevitability of AI, and its future impact on university students, like Buckn...
04/14/2026

📢 Don't miss this very timely event on the inevitability of AI, and its future impact on university students, like Bucknellians!

Chris Mitsch, “AI and the Liberal Arts”

🗓 THIS THURSDAY, April 16, 2026
⏰️ 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
🗺 Hildreth-Mirza Hall, 101/102 - Great Room

An overriding concern for leadership at many liberal arts institutions, including Bucknell, is how to prepare students for the inevitability of AI. But what does it mean to say that AI is inevitable, and what would it look like to prepare students for AI? This talk will provide a framework for addressing these questions.





“This intimate program examines the lives of the miners. Cameras follow the men as they travel deep underground, crawl t...
04/05/2026

“This intimate program examines the lives of the miners. Cameras follow the men as they travel deep underground, crawl through tunnels, and chip away at coal. A compelling documentary.” - Candace Smith

Join us for a Screening of the documentary “Bonecrusher” followed by a Q&A with the director — Bucknell alumnus, Michael Fountain ’91.

Holmes Hall, 116, April 10th at 4:15.

Join us for Crystal Wilkinson’s closing keynote for this year’s themed program: Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowh...
04/05/2026

Join us for Crystal Wilkinson’s closing keynote for this year’s themed program: Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere.

Hildreth-Mirza Hall, Thursday April 9th, 4:30.
Be there.

“As long as you’re at Bucknell, you’re in Appalachia.”Join us on March 27th at 2 PM in Hildreth-Mirza Hall, where Dr. Da...
03/26/2026

“As long as you’re at Bucknell, you’re in Appalachia.”

Join us on March 27th at 2 PM in Hildreth-Mirza Hall, where Dr. David Butcher—a historian, genealogist, community advocate, and founder of the Tablertown People of Color Museum—will share stories about his community’s history, his work, and his vision for the Tablertown Museum as we wrap up what has been a wonderful Humanities Week.

This is sure to be a powerful thought provoking conversation that you’ll not want to miss.

📢 TODAY!✴"Myths & Metaphors of AI"✴- 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.- Hildreth-Mirza Hall, 101/102 - Great Room✨Producers of the W...
03/26/2026

📢 TODAY!
✴"Myths & Metaphors of AI"✴

- 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
- Hildreth-Mirza Hall, 101/102 - Great Room

✨Producers of the Ways of Knowing podcast, Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett present a discussion of the myths and metaphors in our contemporary discussion of ‘Artificial Intelligence’.

🤔How did AI become conflated with human intelligence, and how is this myth being used to build infrastructure, rewrite laws, and alter norms that will fundamentally change how we work, recreate, communicate …and ultimately think about what it means to be human?

More event details here: https://calendar.bucknell.edu/humanities-center/event/69304-myths-metaphors-of-ai

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