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]
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. 🎬
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!
04/15/2026
Congratulations to Bucknell Humanities Center fellow, Katie Schadler, for finishing her Honors Thesis! đź‘Ź
"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.
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”
đź—“ THIS THURSDAY, April 16, 2026
⏰️ 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
đź—ş 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.
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.
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.