4/28: “Rethinking the End of the British Empire” by Caroline ELKINS (Harvard University)
4/26: “Apocolyptic and Gratuitous Hatreds: The Revival of Jew-Hatred in the 21st Century,” a talk by Prof. Richard Landes
“Historian’s Craft” graduate seminar members attend Carlo Ginzburg’s lecture at BU
Famed historian Carlo Ginzburg, author of the classic The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller; Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath, and The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. and numerous important essays on early modern European history and on historiographical theory, delivered an exciting lecture entitled “Unintentional Revelations: Reading […]
“The Problems and Prospects of Diplomatic/International History,” an Essay by Professor Keylor
BU Professor of International Relations and History, Bill Keylor, was recently commissioned to produce an essay by the H-NET list H-Diplo, on the state of the International History/Diplomatic History field. Link to full text article: https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/e126.pdf
April 17: Conversations in History lecture – Thomas Doherty “The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League: 1936-1939”
Faculty in the News: Professor Payaslian Gives Talks for BU’s IHI, The Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard US-China Economic Forum
Professor Simon Payaslian gave three talks since February. His first lecture, entitled “Was the Armenian Genocide a Model for the Holocaust?” was organized by BU’s International History Institute as part of the IHI Fellows Series. The event took place at the Castle on campus, on February 24, 2015. Professor Payaslian presented a paper on the […]
Professor Brooke Blower Highlighted in BU Today Article
BU Assoc. Professor of History, Brooke Blower, along with Assoc. Professor of Arabic & Comparative Literature, Margaret Litvin, were featured in a recent BU Today article “Two CAS Scholars Win Respected Fellowships.” The piece describes the works of Professor Blower and Professor Litvin, as well as the ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship each were awarded. For her term as […]
March 26 @ 7pm – UHA Grad School Panel
BU Cuba Alternative Spring Break Course – Experiencing Cuba: History, Politics, and Culture
Guided by Professors Linda Heywood and John Thornton (African American Studies & History), Professor Ana Maria Reyes (CAS assistant professor of Latin American art), and Dr. Amanda Thornton (infectious diseases fellow at Boston Medical Center), thirteen BU students participated in this journey. During this unforgettable experience, the students were immersed in Cuba’s history and […]