Zatlin Elected to Executive Board of Central European History Society
The Central European History Society has elected Professor Jonathan Zatlin an at-large member of the Society’s Executive Board. Zatlin will serve a three-year term and his duties will include serving on the Society’s grant’s committee.
Silber Participates in Chronicle Forum on Spielberg Movie
The Chronicle of Higher Education features BU’s Civil War historian Nina Silber in its forum on Steven Spielberg’s new film. “In Spielberg: Reconciliation or Reconstruction.” Silber considers what Hollywood does well when it tackles major historical problems, and what its failings are. For more, visit http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2012/12/05/spielberg-reconciliation-or-reconstruction/
Haberkern Wins BUCH Junior Fellowship
Professor Phillip Haberkern has been awarded a Junior Fellowship from the Boston University Center for the Humanities for academic year 2013/14. As a Junior Fellow he will receive a two-semester release from teaching in order to devote himself to research, funded by the BUCH. Congratulations!
Aceso: The Journal of the BUSM Historical Society Publishes Inaugural Issue
Click here to access the journal. The journal is named for a Greek goddess, the daughter of Asclepius and sister of Panacea. Her name comes from the Greek word akéomai, which means “to heal.” She represented the act of the healing process itself. Unlike Panacea, she represented medicine from the patient’s side, a process that involved both the sick and the […]
Rabinovitch Publishes New Book on Jews and Diaspora Nationalism
Brandeis University Press has just published Professor Simon Rabinovitch’s new book, Jews and Diaspora Nationalism: Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Jewish intellectuals wrestled intensely with the problem of how to preserve, construct or transform Jewish peoplehood. But despite a rich array of […]
Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West
On November 8th, 2012, the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) hosted a successful program, part of the BU Taiwan Forum sponsored by the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Boston. Professors Tonio Andrade from Emory University, Xing Hang from Brandeis University, and Michael Szonyi from Harvard University discussed one of the […]
Zach Fredman Wins Samuel Flagg Bemis Grant
Graduate Student Zach Fredman has won the Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). He will receive the award at the SHAFR luncheon, held at the Annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New Orleans.
Professor Simon Payaslian Presents Paper at Ministry of Diaspora in Armenia Conference
Professor Payaslian and Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakopyan Professor Simon Payaslian, holder of the Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature, presented a paper entitled “The Effective Implementation of International Human Rights Law: Challenges Facing Armenia in the 21st Century,” at a conference organized by the Ministry of Diaspora in Armenia. The conference took […]
HI 190 Students Organize Exhibition at Massachusetts Historical Society
Professor Johnson and Students Work With a 17th Century Manuscript The History Department is delighted to invite the BU community to an exhibit and talk at the Massachusetts Historical Society presented by students of the course “Making History: Conflict and Community in Boston’s Past.” The exhibit, “King Philip’s War in Artifacts and Ideas,” documents the […]
History News Network Features Presidential History Conference
The History News Network is giving featured coverage to last month’s conference, “Recasting Presidential Conference,” co-sponsored by BU’s Institute for American Political History and the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. In addition to David Austin Walsh’s thoughtful blog post on the purpose and proceedings of the conference, HNN has featured […]