PhD Graduate Richard Samuel Deese Publishes Book on Julian and Aldous Huxley
Richard Samuel Deese (GRS ’07) will publish We Are Amphibians: Julian and Aldous Huxley on the Future of Our Species with the University of California Press this November. We Are Amphibians, which is based on his dissertation, tells the story of two brothers who changed the way we think about the future of our species. Deese is a lecturer […]
Prof. Sarah Phillips participates in a roundtable review of *The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over the Earth’s Future*
BU History Professor Sarah Phillips recently participated in a round table review of The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over the Earth’s Future, by Paul Sabin (2013). Professor Phillips’ comments, along with those of several other prominent environmental historians, were published in H-Environment Round Table Reviews. Click here for full text article.
UHA Extends a Warm Welcome to Incoming BU Students
The Undergraduate History Association appeared at SPLASH on Nickerson field on the semester’s first Saturday. From their table topped with UHA posters and mailing lists, the club officers espoused information about the association and its activities to passerbys (mostly curious freshmen). Extending a warm welcome to not just History majors, but anyone with even […]
The Marginalia Review seeks Undergraduate Interns and Graduate Editorial Assistant
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 […]