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IHI to Host Fulbright Postdoc

IHI will host a Fulbright Scholar as a Visiting Researcher in 2021. Dr. Ayşegül Avci is a member of the American Culture and Literature Department at Bilkent University in Ankara. While at IHI he will carry out research in the greater Boston area on his book project, Yankee Engineers: The American Chapter of Ottoman Naval Modernization. 

Cathal Nolan Wins Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that Cathal Nolan has been awarded the fifth annual Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History at the New-York Historical Society for The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost (Oxford University Press). The $50,000 prize is bestowed annually in recognition of the best book […]

William R. Keylor Retires from IHI

The International History Institute held a retirement dinner on June 6th to honor its Founding Director, William R. Keylor, also Professor of History and International Relations.  Read about the event and Prof. Keylor’s contributions to BU here.

Student Write-Up of Trip to Battleship Cove

Last Sunday, while a majority of the northeast was hunkering down in preparation for Hurricane Sandy, a group of students from Professor Nolan’s History of War class traveled to Battleship Cove. Battleship Cove, fastened between the Taunton River and Mount Hope Bay, is located one hour west of Boston in the historic city of Fall […]

A Night of Turkish Sufi Mystic Music, Poetry and Images

Turkish Mystic Sufi musician Latif Bolat will present music, poetry, Sufi mystic stories and images from the ancient land of Turkey. Latif Bolat plays Turkish Folk Music and devotional Sufi songs which are called Ilahi and Nefes, from the Anatolian peninsula.  The lyrics of Ilahis or Nefeses are taken largely from the great mystic poets […]