Author: Justin Schreiber

Professor Menegon Presents Research in San Diego and at Brandeis

Professor Eugenio Menegon presented his current research on Europeans, Western commodities, and gift-giving strategies in late imperial Beijing at the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego on March 22, 2013 (http://bit.ly/10fqWZ5/). For another presentation at Brandeis University’s East Asian Studies Program Colloquium on April 23, 2013, entitled “The Emperor’s Clockmaker: Gifts and Power Networking […]

Professor Keylor on Rising Tensions in North Korea

International relations professor William Keylor recently spoke with WCVB-TV in Boston discussing what these actions by North Korea mean to the Korean Peninsula and the world. Keylor is the author of A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945. Click here for the full story

SECOND GLOBAL SEVENTIES CONFERENCE CONVENES IN MÜNSTER, GERMANY

A collaboration between the History Departments at Boston University, the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität (Germany), the Global Seventies project assembles scholars from across the globe to analyze the legacy of a pivotal decade in recent world history.  The collaboration began in November 2011 with an international conference in Boston focusing on the 1970s as […]

Professor Ferleger and Student Magid: “What Recovery? Across America, People in Distressed Cities and Small Towns Face Economic Catastrophe”

In over 200 metropolitan and micropolitan areas, the jobs crisis dominates everyday life, but these communities were experiencing high levels of unemployment long before the Great Recession. They are “distressed areas,” which we define as areas where the unemployment rate has been at least 2 percentage points higher than the national average for at least […]