Mission
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| Cathal J. Nolan and documentary
filmmaker Dr. Jeff Gusky. |
The International History Institute (IHI) at Boston University
was founded to promote greater awareness of the importance of history
to a full understanding of international affairs. It supports existing
teaching programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels, promotes
collaborative faculty research and publication — including
across disciplinary lines — and invites wide participation in its
conferences, public lectures, seminars, and film series.
The Institute sponsors faculty seminars, symposium, and multi-day
conferences at which eminent scholars from other universities join
IHI Fellows in scholarly discussion of major issues of international
history. It also assists faculty in obtaining funding to organize
conferences that expand upon their own research and to carry out
advanced research leading to publication of monographs, edited books,
or dedicated journal issues.
The Institute organizes and hosts occasional University lectures
by senior international historians and eminent 'witnesses to history.'
Conference papers presented at Institute events are available upon
request. Some are distributed as "Occasional Papers."
Scholarly research carried out under the auspices of the Institute
has been published in affiliated outlets such as the journal Diplomacy
& Statecraft and the Praeger book series, International History
(Erik Goldstein, William R. Keylor, and Cathal J. Nolan, editors).
The IHI is expanding its outreach to students and the general public
through hosting of more broadly themed conferences and film series
and talks about historical films. It is also developing an internal,
password-protected data base of stills, audio files, and online
films on the history of war and more general international political
history. This database, scheduled to be launched in Fall 2008, is
restricted to BU students and IHI Fellows.
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