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Boston Area Public Lectures and Forums, Spring 2009

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.)

* credit for the Forging of an American Nation (HI224); # credit for Religion and American Culture (HI399)

FEBRUARY

*# Thur, Feb 19, 7:00 pm, George Marsden (Visiting Professor of American Religious and Intellectual History, Harvard Divinity School), "What Would Jonathan Edwards Have to Say to Twenty-First-Century America?" Shrader Lecture Hall. Free and Open to the Public. Sponsored by the DeFreitas Foundation.

*# Tues, February 17, 7:00 pm, Lauren Winner (Assistant Professor, Duke Divinity School), "Everyday Religion: A Virginia Anglican Case Study." Shrader Lecture Hall. Free and Open to the Public. Sponsored by the History Department.

MARCH

Tues, Mar 3, 2009, 6:30pm, Noam Chomsky, Irene Gendzier, Professor of Political Science, Duncan Kennedy, Stephen Walt, and Alice Rothchild, “Gaza: Beyond the Headlines” LAW Auditorium, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, 1st floor
Please RSVP to MLSA.Event@gmail.com

Tues, March 3 - "Detective Story: Tracking the Political and Developmental Origins of Police Corruption in Mexico and Beyond." (DRCLAS, WCFIA) Diane Davis, MIT. Room S250, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., noon.

Tues, March 3 - "The Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey: The AKP and its Foreign Policy Implications." (WCFIA, CMES, Transatlantic Relations Seminar) Ergun Ozbudun, Bilkent University. Room 050, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., noon.

Wed, Mar 4, 2009, 4:00pm, Rita Lucarelli, Research Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University; and Professor, Universitá degli Studi di Verona. Respondent: David Frankfurter, Department of History, University of New Hampshire “Myth and Religion Studygroup: Divinized Demons and Demonized Gods in Late Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt" 745 Commonwealth Avenue (STH 409)

Wed., March 4 - "The Turkish Sabbataians: From Judeo-Islamic Messianic Mystics to Secular Muslims." (WCFIA, CMES) Cengiz Sisman, Brandeis University. Room N262, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge St., 4:30 p.m.

Wed., March 4 - "Early Pastoral-Nomadic Societies in the Eastern Eurasian Steppes and their Interactions with Early Chinese Societies." (Asia Center, GSAS, Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Civilizations) Wu Guo, Institute of Archaeology. Room 14A, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., 5 p.m. miller9@fas.harvard.edu.

Thur, March 5 - "The Mideast After the Elections in Israel: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Meme Chose?" (WCFIA, CMES) Yoram Peri, Tel Aviv University. Bowie-Vernon Room, K-262, CGIS Knafel, WCFIA, 1737 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.

Thur, Mar 5, 2009, 7:00pm, Christopher Ricks, “Just Like a Man: Bob Dylan & The Charge of Misogyny” Join Professor Christopher Ricks as he discusses the role of gender in the works of Bob Dylan. GSU Metcalf Hall, 775 Commonwealth Avenue (2nd floor)

* Tues, March 17, 7:00pm, Jedidiah Purdy, “A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom.” Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Duke law professor JEDEDIAH PURDY for a discussion of his new book, A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom, a provocative look at the meaning of American freedom. Harvard Book Store.

*# Wed, March 18, 2009, 4:30 p.m Timothy Samuel Shah, “Redeeming Freedom: Evangelicals and Democracy, Around the World and Across Time” http://www.bc.edu/centers/boisi/publicevents/current_semester/shah.html, Delvin 101, Boston College.

Wed. March 18, 2009, 7:30pm, Rahid Khalidi, “Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Hegemony in the Middle East.” Cambridge Forum is pleased to present renowned Middle East historian Rahid Khalidi, the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia, for a discussion of Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Hegemony in the Middle East, a provocative analysis of the legacy of the Cold War in the Middle East. First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge.

Wed, March 18, 2009, 5:00 p.m. Paul Rusesabagina, “Chambers Lecture Series” The Chambers Lecture Series featuring Paul Rusesabagina, Real-Life Hero of Hotel Rwanda. Gasson 100, Boston College.

Thur, March 26, 2009, 4:30 p.m. Matthew Connelly, Historian, Columbia University, and author of Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population. Part of the Lowell Humanities Series. Devlin 101, Boston College

APRIL

* Wed, Apr 1, 2009, 4:00pm, Ben Vinson, “Caste in Mexico” He will present research from his current book-length project on the Mexican colonial caste system. BU History Dept, 138 Mountfort Street (Seminar Room)

* Thurs. April 2, 2009, 6:00pm, Charles Burnett, Frank Christopher, and Kenneth S. Greenberg, “Nat Turner: Troublesome Property,” C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, call for reservations at 617-720-7600.

Tues, Apr 7, 2009, 7:00pm, Christopher Ricks, “All Because of the Color of His Skin: Race & Its Relations to the Art of Bob Dylan” Join Professor Christopher Ricks as he discusses race and its role in the work of Bob Dylan. GSU Metcalf Hall, 775 Commonwealth Avenue (2nd floor)

*# Tues, April 21, 2009, 4:30 p.m, Thomas O'Connor, “Two Centuries of Faith: The Influence of Catholicism on Boston, 1808-2008” Book Launch Event Author and Presenter: Thomas O'Connor, Boston College University Historian. Gasson 100, Boston College

Thurs. April 23, 6:30pm, Phillip Longman, “The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity And What To Do About It,” Old South Meeting House.

* Fri, April 24, 2009, Jennifer Roberts, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, “Audubon's Burden: Materiality and Transmission in The Birds of America,” Elmarion Room, Goddard-Daniels House, 190 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA.

* Fri, April 24 and Sat, April 25, 2009, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium, Harvard University.

MAY

Thurs, May 14, 2009, 12:00pm, Alan Hoffman. “Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825” Boston Athenaeum. Reservation required, starting May 1, call 617-720-7600.

JUNE

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