Professor Menegon, Historian of China and Director of BUCSA, wins Two Fellowships at IAS and BC for Project on Europeans in Imperial Beijing
Professor Eugenio Menegon, Associate Professor of Chinese History and Director of the BU Center for the Study of Asia (Pardee School of Global Studies), was awarded two residential research fellowships for the academic year 2015-2016. He will spend Fall 2015 as a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, […]
Prof. Ben Siegel elected to BU Center for the Study of Asia’s Board
Professor Benjamin Siegel (South Asian History; https://www.bu.edu/history/resources/faculty/benjamin-siegel/) was elected as a new member of the Executive Board of the BU Center for the Study of Asia. Professor Siegel offers below some thoughts on how he can contribute to the growth of Asian History and Asian Studies in his new position: In my second semester at Boston […]
Professor Blower’s new co-authored book just out with Cornell University Press
Cornell University Press has just released The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn, a work co-authored by BU History Professor, Brooke Blower and Mark Philip Bradley (University of Chicago). “In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop […]
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 […]