Ben Barkofsky ’26, BHC Student Fellow
Ben Barkofsky ’26, BHC Student Fellow
4:30–6PM
Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room
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.
Athaliah Elvis ’26, BHC Communications Intern
Athaliah Elvis ’26, BHC Communications Intern
Thursday, April 9, 2026: 4:30–6PM
Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room
Friday, March 27, 2026, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room A conversation with Dave Butcher, the founder and director of the Tablertown, OH, People of Color Museum When he was ten years old living in rural southeast Ohio community called Tablertown, David Butcher received a tin-type photo of his great-great-grandfather, Jerry Sims, and heard stories about Mr. Sims being a Civil War veteran. From that moment forward, Butcher was inspired to learn more about his family lineage and to preserve his community’s history and culture. In 2003, he curated an exhibit on Black life in the Ohio River Valley […]
March 26, 2026, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room 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? Based on a two-part documentary produced in collaboration with Cornell University. Funding provided by the Departments of Music, Philosophy, the Dominguez Center for Data Science, and the University Lectureship Committee.
Thursday, March 26, 202612:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall, 101/102 – Great Room Join Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, co-founders of The World According to Sound, a 90-second podcast and touring live audio experience all about sound, for a lunch discussion about their career paths that led them to radio and podcast production. Chris Hoff was an engineer with KALW News’ Crosscurrents for about eight years, and before that he volunteered and reported for the show starting in 2006. He was a Classics major at Cornell University and also worked as a Freelance Translator in Berlin for several years. Sam Harnett worked […]
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Wednesday, March 25, 20267:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Elaine Langone Center, 213 – Walls Lounge Ways of Knowing: a sonic celebration of the humanities. For 70 minutes you are going to put on an eye mask, sit in the dark, and be taken on a sonic trip that asks you to rethink the world through your ears instead of your eyes. You’ll hear everything from the vibrations of the Golden Gate Bridge, footsteps of ants, and ancient Latin, to the first piece of musique concrete, recordings of Berlin made in 1930, a sonified essay about the gendering of glial cells, and the theory […]