Seminar Series

Next week: Heather Ann Thompson at APHI Lunch

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The 2017-18 APHI seminar kicks off next Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 12:20PM. University of Michigan Professor Heather Ann Thompson, author  of the Pulitzer prize winning Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971, will speak on the subject of her current research, “Surveillance and the State-Building Origins of American Carcerality.” There will be […]

Igo to deliver next APHI Lunch Talk on 4/12

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Mark April 12 on your calendars for a very special presentation: Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt University), “The Promises and Perils of Transparency”! Igo is an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. Her primary research interests are in modern American cultural and intellectual history, the history of the human sciences, the sociology of knowledge, and the history of […]

Lou Ferleger to discuss “the Anatomy of America’s Ultimate Investments”

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We are excited to announce that next Wednesday, March 1, at 12:20 in room 504 of the History Department Building (226 Bay State Rd), Professor Lou Ferleger (BU) will present his paper, “The Anatomy of the Ultimate Investment.” Professor Ferleger is Professor of History and Department Chair. He is co-author of A New Mandate: Democratic Choices for a Prosperous […]

Robin Scheffler to speak at APHI seminar

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Mark your calendars for Robin Scheffler (MIT), who visits BU for the APHI Seminar Series on January 25 at 12:20. His talk is entitled, “Molecular Biologists Protest the War on Cancer: Biomedical Research and Setting the Limits of the State in the 1970s.” Scheffler, Assistant Professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at MIT, […]

Nicole Hemmer to visit BU

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We are excited to announce that Nicole Hemmer (UVA) is in town next week, November 15 & 16 for a pair of talks at BU. On Tuesday, November 15 at 6:00pm, she will be leading a graduate student professionalization workshop, Beyond the Op-Ed Page: Public Engagement in the New Media Age. Then, on Wednesday, November 16, at […]

APHI and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies present: Wendy Kline on “The Emergence of the Hippie Midwife”

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  kline talk We are excited to announce that coming up Wednesday, October 26, at noon in room 504 of the History Department Building (226 Bay State Rd), Professor Wendy Kline (Purdue) will present her paper, “‘Psychedelic Birth: The Emergence of the Hippie Midwife.” The paper is a draft chapter from her book project for Oxford University Press. Kline […]