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Boston Area Public
Lectures and Forums, Spring 2010 and Fall 2010
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 Since
the founding of Harvard College in 1636, 16 years after the arrival of
the first Pilgrims at Plymouth, Boston has been a hub of scholarship,
education,
and the life of the mind. 100 years ago the intellectually curious
Bostonian
could have witnessed public addresses by William James, Theodore
Roosevelt,
W. E. B. DuBois, Jane Addams, or Charles and Mary Beard. Indeed,
little has changed. Today one can hear talks by any number of
scholars
and public figures—ranging from Clifford Geertz, Eric Foner, John
Lukacs,
Cornell West, Bill Clinton, or John Milbank—at the dozens of colleges,
universities,
libraries, and other venues in the area. Every day there are
wonderful
opportunities to attend public lectures in the Boston area. Many
of these lectures are free, delivered by the most renown thinkers and
leaders
of our day. The events listed below are a sampling of some of the
hundreds presented in the Boston vicinity. ENC history
majors are strongly encouraged to attend some of these provocative and
enriching lectures and public forums. (See past History
Department lectures here.)
OCTOBER
Tuesday, October
19, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Dan Breen, “The
Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson,” part of “The Sixties: America’s Decade
of
Crisis & Change Series,” Thomas Crane Public Library, 40 Washington
St,
Quincy
Tuesday, October
26, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Dan Breen, “1968,”
part of “The Sixties: America’s Decade of Crisis & Change Series,”
Thomas
Crane Public Library, 40 Washington St, Quincy
Wednesday,
October 27, 5:30 p.m., Pauline Maier, “Author
Talk: Ratification – The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788,”
Registration Required, Free Admission. Massachusetts Historical
Society, 1154
Boylston St, Boston
Thursday,
October 28, 5:15 p.m., Michael Ebner, “Motives, Interests
and
Mapmakers: Storylines about the Drawing of Boundaries in Metropolitan
America,”
Registration Required, Free Admission. Massachusetts Historical
Society, 1154
Boylston St, Boston
Friday, October
29, 3:00 p.m., Ian Morris, “Why
the West
Rules – For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about
the
Future,” Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
NOVEMBER
Monday, November
1, 7:00 p.m., Richard Parker, “Faith
and Politics: Notes of a (Hopeful) Cynic,” Memorial Church Harvard
University, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
November 2 –
4, 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The
World, The Negro, & Africa: Themes in the Thought of W. E. B. Du
Bois,”
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Wednesday,
November 3, 6:30 p.m., J. L. Bell, “Lost
Holiday: How Bostonians Celebrated the Fifth of November,”
Orientation Room
Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St, Boston
Thursday,
November 4, 7:00 p.m., Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The
Honor Code:
How Moral Revolutions Happen,” Harvard Book Store, 1256
Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge
Thursday,
November 4, 7:00 p.m., Gordon Wood, “Empire of Liberty: History of the
Early
Republic, 1789-1815,” Eastern Nazarene College, Shrader Lecture Hall
Monday, November
8, 6:00 p.m., Nick Bunker, “The
Mayflower Compact: Where It Came From and What It Meant,”
Registration
Required, Free Admission. Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154
Boylston St,
Boston
Tuesday,
November 9, 4:00 p.m., Catherine Duggan, “Harvard Africa Seminar:
Economic Growth
and Institutional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Room S250,
Center for
Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge St
Monday, November
15, 7:00 p.m., Harun Farocki’s films “I
Thought I Was Seeing Convicts” and “Images of the World and the
Inscription of
War,” Tickets $12, Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24
Quincy St,
Cambridge
Tuesday,
November 16, 5:30 p.m., Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the
Supreme
Judicial Court presents the 2010
Paul Tillich Lecture, Memorial Church Harvard University, 1 Harvard
Yard,
Cambridge
Thursday,
November 18, 5:30 p.m., Peter Der Manuelian, “Art as Writing: The
Magic of
Egyptian Hieroglyphs,” Yenching Auditorium, Peabody Museum of
Archaeology
and Ethnology, 2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
Thursday,
November 18, 6:30 p.m., Gerry Hoag, “Design,
Poetry and Creative Living,” Mass Art Lecture Series, Trustees Room
11th
Floor Tower Building, Boston
Thursday,
November 18, 7:00 p.m., Jill Lefore, “Poor Richard’s Poor Jane,”
Eastern
Nazarene College, Shrader Lecture Hall
DECEMBER
Thursday,
December 2, 5:30 p.m., Peter Machinist, “The Alphabet: Its
Origins and
Early History,” Geological Lecture Hall, Peabody Museum, 24 Oxford
St.,
Cambridge
Tuesday,
December 7, 6:00 p.m., Rebecca Eaton – executive producer of PBS
Masterpiece, “Creating
the Past Through Drama,” Registration Required, Free Admission.
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St, Boston
Wednesday,
December 8, 7:00 p.m., Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt, “Beyond
Colorblindness: Re-framing Race, Class, and Gender for the New America,”
Memorial Church Harvard University, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Thursday,
December 9, 6:30 p.m, photographer Stephen Tourlentes, “Crime
and Punishment,” Mass Art Lecture Series, Trustees Room 11th
Floor Tower Building, Boston
MARCH
Wednesday, March 3rd 6:30 pm, Chris Hedges, “Empire of Illusion”, side
entrance of the First Parish Unitarian Universalist located at 3 Church
Street, Cambridge (just opposite the Harvard Square Cinema)
Thursday, March 4, 2010, Ted Conover, “The
Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live
Today," Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Friday, March 5, 2010, 12:00-1:00, Margaret Higonnet, "The
World War I Diary of Margaret Hall," 1154 Boylston St, Boston, MA,
Free, Reservations Requested at education@masshist.org or (617)
646-0560.
Monday, March 8, 2010, Eric Nelson, “The
Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European
Political Thought”, Harvard Hillel, Smith Hall , 52 Mt. Auburn St.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | 4:45 p.m., Bernard Bailyn (Adams University
Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American
History, emeritus, at Harvard University), “How
Historians Get it Wrong: The American Constitution, for Example,”
Fulton 511, 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02135
Friday, March 9, 2010, 5:15 PM, Kevin K. Olsen, “"An Environmental
Management History of Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn and Queens Counties,
1849-1938", 1154 Boylston St, Boston, MA, Request seminar papers
at
http://www.masshist.org/events/behs.cfm
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 6:00 PM, Kirstin Downey, “The
Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins,” 1154
Boylston St, Boston, MA,
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 6:30 – 8pm, Moshik Temkin, “Boston's
Gift to the World: The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair,” Boston Public
Library, 700 Boylston Street, Orientation Room.
Friday, March 12, 2010 | 4:30 p.m., Prof. Eva Kittay (SUNY Stonybrook),
"Life not Worthy of Living": Race, Disability and the Nazi's T-4
Project”, Gason 305, 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02135
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Peter F. Stevens, “Hidden History of
the Boston Irish!” Harvard Coop Bookstore, Cambridge, MA
Thur. Mar. 18 6:30 p.m., Alex R. Goldfeld, “In Slavery and Freedom:
Boston's Black Community since 1638” Boston Public Library, 700
Boylston Street, Orientation Room,
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David J Wolpe
(moderated by Tom Ashbrook), “The Great God Debate”, Temple Israel, 477
Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02215. Tickets available from
www.newcenterboston.org
Thursday, March 25, 2010, Tim O’Brien, “Celebrates the 20th Anniversary
of The Things They Carried”, First Parish Church Meetinghouse, On the
corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St., Cambridge, $5 tickets will go ON
SALE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, and will be available for purchase online at
harvard.com, at Harvard Book Store, and over the phone with a credit
card (617.661.1515).
Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 6:00 P.M., Michael O’Brien (Cambridge
University), “Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of
Napoleon”, 1154 Boylston St, Boston, MA, Free, Reservations required:
APRIL
Thursday, April 1, 2010, Deborah Amos, “Eclipse
of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East,”
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, Jeff Shesol, “Supreme
Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court,” Harvard Book
Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Thursday, April 8, 6:30p.m. to 8:00p.m., Mitt Romney and Jeff Jacoby “No
Apology:The Case for American Greatness,” Rabb Auditorium, Boston
Public Library
Thursday, April 8, 2010 | 7:00 p.m., Father Robert Imbelli (Boston
College’s Department of Theology), “Pope
Benedict and the Reception of Vatican II,” 2101 Commonwealth Ave.
(Former Cardinal's residence), Brighton Campus,
Tuesday, April 13, 2010, Anya Zilberstein (Concordia University,
Montreal), “Cold
Comfort: The Biogeography of Northern British America, 1670-1820,”
1154 Boylston St, Boston, MA, Advanced copies of seminar papers:
Thursday, April 15, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Joseph M. Cronin, George
Greenidge, Claudio Martinez, and Jean McGuire with Tessil Collins, “Reforming
Boston Schools: Race, History, and the Future of Our Public School
System,” Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St, Boston
MAY
Monday, May 3, 2010, 12:00-1:00 PM, Evan Thomas (Newsweek), “The War
Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898”, 1154
Boylston St, Boston, MA
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