EVENT: Sushi Lecture (04/09/2015)

Please join us next Thursday for this year’s “Sushi Lecture” with professor Ann Sherif of Oberlin College. For those of you who don’t know, Howard Zinn was a well known historian and social activist who taught here at BU until his death in 2010. Zinn wrote powerful, popular books on American history from the perspective of the disenfranchised, exposing the racism, inequality, and violence that has marked the history of the United States. His most famous book, “A People’s History of the United States” is a must read, says one reviewer, for “every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” Professor Sherif will tell us what happened when Zinn traveled from Boston to Tokyo in 1966 together with the African American civil rights activist Ralph Featherstone to make common cause with Japanese anti-nuclear activists Tsunami Shunsuke, Oda Makoto, and others. Please join us for this fascinating talk exploring this important chapter of BU history between Boston and Japan! And stay for the sushi reception afterward! 

Time: Thursday, April 9 at 5pm

Location: basement auditorium in the Theology building (745 Comm Ave)