Workshop in International Theory and History • Spring 2025
The goal of this workshop is to put BU’s historians, political theorists, and theory-oriented comparativists into closer conversation – please join us!
Thursday, March 27 • 12:30 to 2 PM
A Conversation about Finance and Anti-Democratic Politics
Michael McCarthy • Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of Community Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz and author of The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)
Quinn Slobodian • Professor of International History at the Pardee School of Global Studies
Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, 147 Bay State Road, Room 107
Friday, April 4 • 2:30 to 4 PM
“The Eternal Promise of Missile Defense”
Sanne Verschuren • Assistant Professor of International Security, Pardee School of Global Studies
Pardee School of Global Studies, 152 Bay State Road, Conference Room
Friday, April 25 • 12:30 to 2 PM
“Chasing After Strange Gods: Anna Louise Strong in Stalin’s USSR”
David Mayers • Professor of Political Science, Boston University
Pardee School of Global Studies, 152 Bay State Road, Conference Room
Lunch will be provided on April 25.
Papers will be circulated a week in advance of each session. Please register using the form below.
The workshop is co-sponsored by the Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs: CURA, the Department of Political Science, and the Center for the Study of Europe.
