Making History: Undergrads Mount Exhibition at MHS
On December 13, the History Department welcomed students, faculty, and the community to an exhibition and presentation at the Massachusetts Historical Society mounted by students in HI 190– “Making History: Conflict and Community in Boston’s Past.” The exhibition, “King Philip’s War in Artifacts and Ideas,” documents the culture of early Puritan settlers and Native Americans […]
BU History Co-Sponsors Second Annual “Food and the City” Conference, Feb 1-2, 2013
Continuing a joint venture with the University of Texas-Austinthat began with the 2012 “Food and the City” Conference at Boston University, the BU History Department is co-sponsoring “Food, the City, and Innovation,” a roundtable conference at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. Click here for a full sized flyer.
Jolanta Komornicka Defends Dissertation
On November 30th, Jolanta Komornicka successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “The Parlement Of Paris And Crimes Of Lese Majesty In France, 1328–1350.” Examining the use of lese majesty by the Parlement of Paris during the reign of Philip VI Valois (r. 1328-1350), the dissertation explores the relationships between the high judicial court, the king, other jurisdictions, […]
Professor Johnson, HI190 Featured in BU Today
See the full story on the BU Today website: http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/handling-history-instead-of-reading-it/
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 […]
Cambridge University Press has just published David Mayers’s book, FDR’s Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis
This book constitutes an investigation into the part played by personality and circumstance in US foreign policy during World War II. This account of US envoys residing in the major belligerent countries–Japan, Germany, Italy, China, France, Great Britain, USSR–highlights the fascinating role assumed by such diplomats as Joseph Grew, William Dodd, William Bullitt, Joseph Kennedy, […]