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NEW FACULTY BOOK: Chinese Translation of Matteo Ricci’s Diary
Recently the Commercial Press of Shanghai, one of the largest publisher in China, published a Chinese version of Matteo Ricci’s Dell¹entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e Christianità nella Cina (On the entrance of the Society of Jesus and Christianity into China), translated and annotated by Professor Wen Zheng (Beijing Foreign Languages University, Department of Italian) […]
Microhistory in East Asia: A Lecture in Rome
On June 17th, 2014, while a visiting scholar at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, Professor Eugenio Menegon gave a lecture for the Third Doctoral Seminar on “Europe and East Asia: Cultural and Linguistic Contacts” at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” The seminar was sponsored by the Confucius […]
“Economic Racism in Perspective: Past and Present in the US and Germany” – A November 2014 Event Series
The Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University is pleased to present “Economic Racism in Perspective: Past and Present in the US and Germany,” a series of events scheduled for November 2014 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act and consider more broadly the dangers of economic discrimination. By […]
Brownell Publishes Op-Ed About Nixon’s Surprising “Showbiz” Legacy on Reuters
Former BU History grad student, Kate Brownell, published an op-ed this morning on Reuters. The piece discusses President Richard Nixon, and his more surprising “showbiz” legacy. Link to full text: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/08/08/nixons-showbiz-legacy/
KU Leuven and Boston University Workshop “The Materiality of Chinese-Western Relations in the Ming-Qing periods: Methodological Approaches, Empirical Cases”
Leuven (Belgium), May 26-27, 2014 Workshop Concept This workshop built on recent scholarship and other workshops and conferences on the presence and role of Europeans (especially Catholic missionaries) at the imperial court and in the provinces in Ming-Qing China. It aimed to explore methodological issues and empirical case-studies that might help us re-focus some of […]
Boston University in Belgium: A Workshop on Chinese-Western Cultural Relations in the Early Modern Era
A workshop jointly organized by Boston University and the University of Leuven on the history of Chinese-European relations was successfully held on May 26-27, 2014 in the historic university town of Leuven (Louvain), in Flanders, Belgium. The workshop was coordinated by Professor Eugenio Menegon (Department of History, and Director of the BU center for the […]
Modern Intellectual History August 2014 Table of Contents
MIH 11.2 ToC
Of Rights and Witches: Bentham’s Critique of the Declaration of Independence
Posted on July 3, 2014by James Schmidt It is not surprising that friends of the Enlightenment tend to assume that the Enlightenment was generally friendly towards the American Revolution. Richard Price had, after all, been an energetic supporter of the Colonial cause and, like Joseph Priestley, saw it as a link in the chain of “glorious revolutions” […]
Professor Jim Johnson Awarded ACLS and Guggenheim Fellowships
Professor Jim Johnson of the BU History Department was recently awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship. During his ACLS and Guggenheim Fellowship terms, Professor Johnson will be working on Means of Concealment: French Identity and the Self, the follow-up book to Venice Incognito: Masks in the […]