Feast, sip, and celebrate history at the eighth Cocktails with Clio! 

Thursday, 17 May 2018
6:30 PM

In this illustrated lecture, Jane Kamensky, professor of history and the Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, uses seven jewels from the library’s collections to tell fresh stories of American history in the 20th century and look ahead to the 21st.

Topics will include women’s rights and civil rights, the sexual revolution and the remaking of the American family, and the actions and activism of American women abroad from...

For the full schedule, see the South Africa Partners Website

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Join SA Partners for the Massachusetts premiere of An Act of Defiance presented in partnership with The National Center for Jewish Film’s 21st Annual Film Festival. This rousing historical drama is based on the real events of the pivotal 1963 Rivonia Trial in apartheid South Africa.

 Join SA Partners for the Massachusetts premiere of An Act of Defiance presented in partnership with The National Center for Jewish Film’s 21st Annual Film Festival. This rousing historical drama is based on the real events of the pivotal 1963 Rivonia Trial in apartheid South Africa....

The Boston University Department of Classical Studies would like to invite you to our next lecture in the Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World lecture series. Professor Marco Formisano (Ghent University), will be presenting "Seeing Double: The Contemporary and the Immemorial in Claudian and Colluthus.”

Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Department of
Classical Studies, and the Study Group on Religion & Myth in the Ancient World....

This...

The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University is honored to present: Tell Them About the Dream, a program dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr. on the week of remembrance of the 50th Anniversary of his assassination.

Date: Monday April 2, 2018

6:00 p.m.

Location: 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2^nd Floor, Boston MA 02215

Metcalf Hall in George Sherman Union

Come...

Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World lecture series
Professor Roberta Stewart (Dartmouth College)

Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Department of
Classical Studies, and the Study Group on Religion & Myth in the Ancient World.

This lecture is free and open to the public, so please pass this information to anyone who may be interested. For more information on this lecture or on the Study Group, please visit our website ...

Join us when American Historian Eric Foner takes the stage to discuss, “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Changed the Constitution.” Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of the country's most prominent historians. Enjoy a reception prior to the discussion where you can meet Foner, and connect with faculty, alumni and friends. Signed book copies will be available for sale.

Price: $65 per person for reception and lecture (includes hors d’oeuvres and hosted bar) 
$5 per person for the...

Harvard Book Store, 826 Boston, the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and Mass Humanities welcome bestselling author, TED speaker, and former Stanford dean JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS for a discussion of her latest book, Real American: A Memoir. The evening will begin with a reading from 8th grader Tiffany from the Boston Teachers Union School.

About Real American

A fearless debut memoir by beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims, Real American...

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.

Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut

Abolitionists are often portrayed as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. This book...

Walter Rodney Seminar

Ben Twagira (BU/HI)

Boston University’s weekly Walter Rodney seminars are held Mondays in the B.U. African Studies Center. This week’s seminar features Ben Twagira, post-doctoral fellow at Emory University, presenting “Military Rule and Urban Resilience: The Case of Kampala, Uganda, ca. 1966-86.”

ORGANIZER(S): African Studies Center at Boston University
EVENT WEBSITE: https://www.bu.edu/africa/events/rodney/