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lectures

A portrait of Viet Thanh Nguyen who will be delivering the 2019 Ha Jin Lecture

Arts & Culture

Pulitzer-Winning Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen to Give Ha Jin Lecture Tonight

November 19, 2019

Illustration showing faces from different races and ethnicities.

Lectures

New Diversity & Inclusion Lecture Series to Explore Race in America

September 25, 2019

Shahla Haeri and her students in the class Women in the Muslim World

Culture

CAS Class Explores Women in the Muslim World

April 24, 2019

Former Congressman Mike Capuano

Politics

Former Congressman Michael Capuano (Hon.’09) to Join BU

March 4, 2019

University News

Some Good Words about ADHD

November 7, 2018

Former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks at Boston University

lectures

Former UN Secretary-General Kicks Off BU Think Tank

March 1, 2018

African American History Monument, Columbia, SC

Politics

Paradox of the South: Confederacy Statues and Civil Rights Memorials

February 26, 2018

Lynda Barry self portrait

Fine Arts

Helping Creativity Flow

November 8, 2017

Poets Mark Doty and Tomas Unger

Creative Writing

Poet Mark Doty Tonight’s Robert Lowell Poetry Reading Headliner

October 26, 2017

Rhett Talk kicks off with a conversation of LGBT issues

Students

Rhett Talks Kick Off Tonight with Discussion of LGBT Issues

September 6, 2017

Gary Lawson, Philip S. Beck Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, and winner of the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching

Commencement

A Very Different Path to Excellence

May 16, 2017

Andreas Xenopoulos with local children on the Paseo de Prado.

Infectious Diseases

Cuban Culture Shapes a Spring Break Trip

March 20, 2017

Boston University alumni and Author Peter Ho Davies

Alumni

Peter Ho Davies Explores Chinese American History

March 16, 2017

Boston officials Atyia Martin (center) and Karilyn Crockett sitting down on chairs

lectures

Racism: What BU and Boston Can Do about It

November 9, 2016

Richard Primack in a classroom giving a lecture in front of a projector screen

Research

2016 University Lecture: Climate Change Expert Richard Primack

October 26, 2016

Matthew Trevithick, BU alum freed from Iranian prison in January discusses his experience in a CGS lecture on Thursday, April 14, 2016.

Global

Matthew Trevithick: Life in Solitary Confinement

April 22, 2016

Emily Friedman

Event Preview

Got Insurance? Don’t Be Too Sure

March 22, 2016

Paul Farmer, a globally renowned advocate of medical care for the poor, assesses global health in a BU lecture today.

Health & Medicine

Paul Farmer, Doctor to the Poor, Speaks Today at BU

November 4, 2015

Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

Arts & Culture

Native North Korean Filmmaker Gives Lowell Lecture

November 3, 2015

Blue Nile

lectures

University Lecture Plumbs the “Soul” of the Blue Nile

November 2, 2015

University Lecture Plumbs the “Soul” of the Blue Nile