The Science of Art Diagnostics: Maurizio Seracini 

Lecture by URI Distinguished Visiting International Scholar, Maurizio Seracini, a world-famous art diagnostic expert - The Science of Art Diagnostics.

"A Future of Our Past: Engineering Sciences for the Conservation and Preservation of World Cultural Heritage."

"Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet"

Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, discusses her recent publication with two respondents:

David Eckel, Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion,
Boston University 

Mark D. Jordan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought, HDS

Mahindra Humanities Center/Science, Religion, and Culture Seminar
"Debating Circumcision in an Era of Human Rights"

Michael Lesley, ThD Candidate,
Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School

Please join us at Northeastern University on April 11 at 5:30 for “How Small Men Become Great:  Theodor Herzl as a Zionist Leader,” a lecture by Derek Penslar, Stanley Jewish Professor of Modern Israel Studies at University of Oxford.  The lecture is free and open to the public.  

The Peabody Essex Museum will be hosting a public study day entitled Consuming Luxury: Asia in Amsterdam, on Saturday, April 16, 2016 from 9:30 am - 6 pm. This event, held in conjunction with PEM's current ...

BU Institute for Philosophy & Religion

"Krishna's Instruction in the Bhagavad Gita: Many Doubts, One Faith"

Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity, Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School

 Wednesday, March 23, 5 p.m.

 Boston University School of Theology

745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 325

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This event has been Cancelled. 

This event is free and open to the general public and will feature scholars who will present a retrospective on the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916. The speakers are as follows:

Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies

Betty Anderson, Associate Professor of History, Pardee School of Global Studies

Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Career Development Associate Professor of History, MIT 

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There is a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm

Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School and Peter Onuf, University of Virginia

Registration required. See the MHS website.

Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the...

Anne Bentley, Curator of Art and Artifacts, Massachusetts Historical Society

Handling the papers of the founding fathers requires an unflinching confidence in your technical ability. Anne Bentley, MHS's curator, will discuss her conservation work on one of the canonical texts of America, Jefferson’s only book, The Notes on the State of Virginia.

For more information, see the MHS website. 

Jennifer Thomson, Bucknell University
Comment: Chad Montrie, University of Massachusetts—Lowell

How did environmental politics survive the de-regulation, economic crisis, and nativism of the 1970s? What compromises did environmental activists make? This paper engages with these questions through the fractious history of the environmental organization Friends of the Earth (FOE). Founded in 1969, FOE’s first decade illuminates how the political and economic changes of the 1970s impacted, limited, and ultimately gave shape to the parameters of...

There is a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm

Louisa Thomas, Author

Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson was raised in circumstances very different from the New England upbringing of the future president John Quincy Adams. And yet John Quincy fell in love with her, almost despite himself. They lived in Prussia, Massachusetts, Washington, Russia, and England. Louisa saw more of Europe and America than nearly any other woman...

Westenley Alcenat, Columbia University and MIT

This project explores the experience and radicalism of the African-American settlers who emigrated to Haiti throughout the nineteenth century. It focuses on how this migration movement influenced African-American and Haitian political thought and the transnational struggle for Black citizenship before and during the American Civil War.

Jared Hardesty, Western Washington UniversityComment: Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire

This seminar will examine the tumultuous construction of Castle William, a fort meant to protect Boston Harbor. Begun in 1701, this five-year project was fraught with corruption, labor strife, supply shortages, ineptitude, and tension between colonial desires and imperial ambition. Hardesty will explore the fort as a microcosm of imperial reform and as a lens into post-Glorious Revolution attempts to build empire in...