Past Events

The International History Institute (IHI) was chartered by Boston University on July 1, 1999. Its first set of activities actually preceded its formal Charter, in the form of the “International History Study Group,” a faculty group whose members subsequently became IHI Fellows.

Once the IHI was chartered, the “International History Study Group” reconvened under the rubric of IHI Faculty Research Seminar. Since its founding, the IHI has expanded outreach to graduate and undergraduate students, through its conferences, film series, and roundtables. 

2009
11/18/09	A Tale of Three Cities: The Origins and Uses of American Hyperpower
11/7/09	Western Front Association Annual Conference
10/29/09	American Aid to the French Resistance in World War II
10/22/09	"The Heavenly City of Business: The American Century as Corporate Eschatology."
10/8/09	"America in the World Economy: From the American Century to Globalization” Lecture #2 in series: The Short American Century, 1941-2008: Contrasting Views of the Era of American Dominance
9/25/09	Gerald Protheroe: Roger Hilsman and the Vietnam War
9/17/09	The Short American Century, 1941-2008: Contrasting Views of the Era of American Dominance
4/23/09	Film Screening: Yamato
4/9/09	"Neither War Nor Peace: FDR's Diplomats in Berlin and Policy toward Germany, 1933-1941"
3/16/09	Modernization And Revolution In China: From The Opium Wars To World Power
3/5/09	Michael Collins: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
2/25/09	"The Sorrow and the Pity" Part II
2/24/09	"The Sorrow and the Pity" Part I
2008
12/9/08	"Joyeux Noël: The Day the Guns Fell Silent"
9/27/08	"Legacy of the Armenian Republic"
9/26/08	"History of the CIA"
4/10/08	Military History in Film: Allied and Axis Commanders in "Patton" and in Reality
3/26/08	"Varoujan and Siamanto: The Last Generation in Historic Armenia before the Cataclysm"
3/24/08	IHI Symposium on European Fascism
2/21/08	"The Day the Guns Fell Silent"
2/11/08	"Military Bonding: A Force in Shaping Solidarity Among Enslaved Africans?"
1/31/08	"The Coming Age of Preventive War"
2007
12/5/07	Three IHI Authors
10/24/07	Vintage History Faculty Seminar
4/25/07	"The Realities of Power and Responsibility: Britain and the United States, 1919-1939,"
3/23/07	From the Great War to the Paris Peace Settlement, 1918-1919
3/7/07	Conspiracy: The Wansee Conference
2/14/07	Israel's Lebanese Morass, 1975-2006
2006
4/25/06	Research Seminar: Klaus Schabe, "Problems of Nation-building in U.S. Foreign Policy in the 20th Century: A German Perspective."
4/11/06	Research Seminar: Anna Geifman, "Terrorism and the Bolshevik Revolution"
4/1/06	Conference: International Origins of the Preservation Movement: 1880-1920
3/23/06	Research Seminar: Jonathon Zatlin, "German Unification in Retrospect"
2/28/06	Live Theatre: “The Lights are Going Out All Over Europe: A Danse Macabre”
2005
11/7/05	Conference: “Inside Saudi Arabia”
10/17/05	Research Seminar: John Eck, Iraq Survey Group: “Intelligence and the Iraq War”
10/13/05	Film: Napoleonic Wars, “Waterloo”
4/5/05	Research Seminar: Andrew Bacevich: “The New American Militarism”
2004
12/7/04	Research Seminar: Anatol Lieven,
11/18/04	Film: Jean Renoir's "La Grande Illusion"
10/13/04	Research Seminar: Dr. Seung-young Kim "Russo-Japanese Conflict over Korea: Then and Now"
4/28/04	Research Seminar: Efraim Inbar "Strategic Balance in the Middle East"
4/12/04	Research Seminar: June Grasso, "The Politics of Food Aid: John F. Kennedy and Famine in China"
3/19/04	Conference: “Ralph Bunche and the American Experience”
3/17/04	Film: “Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey"
2/19/04	Research Seminar: Dr. G. Bruce Strang, "The Politics of Impotence: the United States and Italy during the Ethiopian Crisis, 1935-36."
1/30/04	Film: American Civil War, “Glory”
1/21/04	Research Seminar: Dr. Carl Hodge, “The Bismarck Episode: Naval Power and Strategic Dissonance in World War II”
2003
12/3/03	Research Seminar: Robert Jackson, "International Engagement in War-Torn Countries"
12/3/03	Film: “Mary, Queen of Scots”
10/22/03	Research Seminar: William Hitchcock, "The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945-2002"
10/8/03	Film: Philip II’s “Enterprise of England”
9/25/03	Research Seminar: A. Dirk Moses, "Holocaust and Genocide: Entanglement of Master Concepts"
9/15/03	Research Seminar: David Mayers, "Dirty War and Democracy: The Philippines, 1899-1902"
5/3/03	Conference: "Brillat-Savarin Revisited: History of Gastronomy in 19th Century France”
4/22/03	Research Seminar: Michael Kort, "The Bombing of Hiroshima and the End of the War with Japan”
3/26/03	IHI Visiting Lecturer: Arnold Offner, “Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953”
3/13/03	Conference: “Democracies and Dirty Wars: Hard Cases in Military Ethics”
2002
9/30/02	Research Seminar: Henry Wend, "Allied Reparations Policies and the Reconstruction of Germany's Post-war Shipbuilding Industry, 1945-1958."
4/29/02	Research Seminar: Erik Goldstein, “The Eastern Question, the Last Phase: Britain and the End of the Ottoman Empire”
3/18/02	Research Seminar: Melanie Hall, “Building the Special Relationship. Politics, Patriotism and Preservation, 1900: A National Trust for English-Speaking People”
2/24/02	BU Diplomacy Club tournament
2/8/02	Conference: BUHUYU Faculty and Graduate Student Conference on International History
2001
12/3/01	Film: Napoleonic Wars, “Waterloo”
11/12/01	Film: English Civil War, “Cromwell”
11/10/01	Conference: IHI and Western Front Association, “Diplomacy in the Great War, 1914-1918”
10/9/01	Research Seminar: Randall Poole, “The Philosophy and Politics of Russian Liberalism, 1900-1905”
4/19/01	Research Seminar: Jay Corrin, “Against the Tide: The Catholic Critics of Francisco Franco”
4/9/01	IHI Lecturer in “Witnesses to History” series: Hermann Eilts, “The Road to Camp David and the Beginning of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process: A Personal Reminiscence.”
2/20/01	Conference: “Reassessing the Gulf War”
2/16/01	Conference: Yale-Harvard-BU program on Modern Diplomatic History: "Cultural Diplomacy"
1/29/01	Research Seminar: Jennifer Siegel. “Central Asia, the Great Game and the Origins of the First World War.”
2000
11/27/00	Research Seminar: David Mayers, "The U.S. Response to Greece's War of Independence, 1820-1830"
10/11/00	IHI Visiting Lecturer: Shareen Blair Brysac, “Against Hitler: An American in the German Resistance: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra,"
9/25/00	IHI Visiting Lecturer: Charles G. Cogan, "NATO and the EU: The Contest for Enlargement "
9/18/00	Research Seminar: Thomas G. Otte, "The Madness of Kaiser Bill: Great Britain and the Last German Emperor"
4/24/00	Research Seminar: Sijin Cheng, “Power and Responsibility: Gauging China's Capabilities and Intentions”
3/27/00	Research Seminar: Irene Gendzier, “Oil Politics and Foreign Policy”
3/24/00	IHI Visiting Lecturer, Bonnie S. Anderson, "Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement,1830-1860"
3/17/00	Film: Zulu War, “Zulu”
2/28/00	Research Seminar: David Scott Palmer, "The Peru-Ecuador Border Dispute and its Resolution"
2/24/00	IHI Visiting Lecturer: John Lewis Gaddis, “Order vs. Justice: An American Foreign Policy Dilemma”
1999
11/15/99	Research Seminar: Henry Wend, “Recovery and Restoration: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Politics of Reconstruction of West Germany's Ship Construction Industry, 1945-1955.”
10/17/99	Research Seminar: Igor Lukes, “The Rudolf Slansky Affair: New Evidence”
10/5/99	Conference: “From Journalism To History”
9/20/99	Research Seminar: Cathal J. Nolan, “Bodyguard of Lies: Franklin Roosevelt and Defensible Deceit in World War II”
4/5/99	Research Seminar, Jean Garrison, “Games Advisors Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations”

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