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Boston Area Public
Lectures and Forums, Fall 2009
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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.)
* credit for UNITED STATES FROM
RECONSTRUCTION TO WORLD WAR I, 1865-1918 (HI225); # credit for AMERICA
IN THE 1960s (HI346)
SEPTEMBER
Tues. Sept 8, 7:00pm, Howard Dean (Democratic National
Committee),“Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve
Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer.”
First Parish Church Meetinghouse, on the corner of Mass. Ave. and
Church St. Cambridge. $5 tickets can be purchased beginning Tues., Aug.
18th online at Harvard Book Store, or over the phone with a credit card
(617.661.1515).
Wed, September 9, 6:30-9pm "The Boston Police Strike of 1919: A City
and Nation in Transition." Boston Public Library- Rabb Lecture Hall,
700 Boylston Street, Boston. This lecture is free and open to the
public.
Thurs, Sept 17, 6:30pm, Wendy Kaminer, “Worst Instincts:
Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU.” C. Walsh Theater, Suffolk
University, FREE
*
Thur, Sept 17, 7:00pm, Gardner Hall, Rm 26, Eastern Nazarene College:
Heather Cox Richardson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Wounded
Knee: Gilded Age Economics and the Road to an American Massacre."
Free and open to the
public. Read
more >>>
Fri, Sept 25, 4:00pm, "Boston
College Symposia on Interreligious Dialogue - Understanding the
Religious Other: Western Hermeneutics and Interreligious Dialogues."
Heights Room, Corcoran Commons, Lower Campus.
Friday, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:00pm until 5:30pm on Friday, Sep 25, 2009
Gerald Protheroe “Roger Hilsman and the Vietnam War” Boston University
International History Institute 152-154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor
(Eilts Room, IR Department)
Wednesday, September 30, James W. Crawford (Minister Emeritus of Old
South Church) “Slavery & Abolition at Old South Meeting House: The
Inspiration of Lincoln” Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street,
Boston, MA 02108.
OCTOBER
Thurs, Oct 1, 5:15pm, Pauline Maier (MIT), "What Did It Take To Get the
Constitution Ratified? A New Look at the Massachusetts Convention,
January 9-February 6, 1788" Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154
Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215. Call for Reservations at (617)
646-0540.
Thurs, Oct 1, 5:30pm, Madeleine Albright, “A Conversation with
Madeleine Albright.” The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and
Museum, Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125. Former Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright discusses her new book, Read My Pins: How One
Woman's Jewelry Collection Was Used to Make Diplomatic History, with
former Governor of Vermont and author of Pearls, Politics and Power:
How Women Can Win and Lead, Madeleine Kunin.
# Thurs, Fri, Oct 1-2, The
Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, 15 Years Later, a Conference on the
Groundbreaking Book by Mark Noll, Gordon College, Wenham, MA.
Speakers include: Margaret Bendroth, Heather Curtis, Maura Jane
Farrelly, Karl Giberson, David Hempton, Dennis Hoover, David Lumsdaine,
Mark Noll, Jon Roberts, Timothy Shah, Randall Stephens, and James
Wallace. The conference is open to the public. Further details
will be posted here. Sponsored by Eastern Nazarene College and the
Center for Christian Studies at Gordon College, with funding from a
Lilly Endowment grant.
Thur, Oct 1, 2009, 5:15, Pauline Maier, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology "What Did It Take To Get the Constitution Ratified? A New
Look at the Massachusetts Convention, January 9-February 6,
1788," 1154 Boylston Street Boston MA
Friday, October 2, 2009, 11am – 12pm The Volunteer Office of the Boston
Public Library offers tours highlighting the architecture of Charles
Follen McKim and Philip Johnson, as well as the many works of famed
sculptors and painters. The tours, which meet at the Dartmouth Street
entrance of the Copley Square library, last about an hour., Boston
Public Library, Copley Square.
Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 7 – 8pm Adams Street Branch, Boston Public Library,
690 Adams Street, "Dorchester, A Journey Through Boston Irish History."
Tues, Oct 6, 2009, 3 – 4:30pm In Honor of Italian Heritage Month the
West End Branch Library (Boston Public Library, 151 Cambridge Street)
will show the following film/documentary as part of a series: The
Italian Americans (1997, 90 minutes).
Tues, Oct 6, 2009, 6pm “The Middle East: Lebanon, Israel and the
Hizbollah (mis)fit.” This lecture will examine the roots of Lebanon/
Israel conflict, the role of Hezbollah both as a member of Lebanon's
government and as a "state within the state," militarily stronger than
the state, and pose the question, 'to whose benefit is a war?' Finally,
it will argue that unless Hezbollah is "brought in from the cold,"
there will be no enduring peace in the Middle East. (Boston Public
Library,700 Boylston Street,
Rabb Lecture Hall).
Tues, Oct 6, 2009, 06:30pm, Hope Cole “From Baby Caps to Mourning
Rings: The Material Culture of Boston’s 18th Century Girls and Women”
The Bostonian Society, 206 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02109-1773.
Wed, Oct 7, 12:00-1:00 PM, Crystal Feimster, MHS-NEH Long-Term Fellow,
"Sexual Warfare: Rape and the American Civil War" 1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA.
Thurs, Oct 8th 2009, 6:00 PM, Jeffrey Frieden (Harvard University) “The
Short American Century, 1941-2008: Contrasting Views of the Era of
American Dominance (2nd of an 8 part series)” Boston University, The
Castle, 225 Bay State Road.
Thurs, Oct 8th, 7:00 PM TAYLOR BRANCH “The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling
History with the President” First Parish Church Meetinghouse, (Corner
of Mass Ave and Church St.) Cambridge, MA. Cost: $5 tickets available
at http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2362
# Fri, Oct 9, 7:00 pm, Shrader Hall: Hank Klibanoff, "The Race Beat:
Then & Now." Klibanoff served as managing editor of the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution until 2008 and was the Deputy Managing
Editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he worked for 20 years. He
was also a reporter for the Boston Globe. His book, The Race
Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a
Nation, co-authored with Gene Roberts, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for
History. Free
and open to the public. Read more >>>
* Mon, Oct 12, 11-4pm “John Brown: Martyr to Freedom; American
Terrorist- or Both?” Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston
Street, Boston. This exhibit is opened on the 150th anniversary of John
Brown’s attack on Harpers Ferry and will be open for viewing until
December 23rd. Free and open to the public.
# Tues, Oct 13, 7:00pm, Shrader Hall: Bruce Schulman (Boston
University) "Thunder on the Right: The Rise of Conservatism in Postwar
America." Professor Schulman is the author of From Cotton Belt to
Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation
of the South, 1938-1980 (1991); Lyndon B. Johnson and American
Liberalism (1995); and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American
Culture, Society, and Politics (2002). Schulman's talk is part of the
ENC History Department Public Lecture Series, which is made possible by
the generous support of ENC alums. Free
and open to the public. Read more >>>
Tues, Oct 13th, 2009 3:00 PM (West End Branch, Boston Public
Library,151 Cambridge Street) In Honor of Italian Heritage Month the
West End Branch Library will show the following film/documentary as
part of a series: Film Big Night (1997, 109 minutes).
Wed, Oct 14th, 7:00 PM, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse Than War:
Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity Harvard
Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue.
Thurs, Oct 15, 5:15pm, Felicia Kornbluh (University of Vermont),
"Disability, Gender, and Politics: The National Confederation of the
Blind Confronts the Post-W.W. II U.S. Welfare State." Massachusetts
Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215. Call for
Reservations at (617) 646-0540.
* Fri, Oct 16, 2009 6:00 p.m., The 27th Annual Wiggins Lecture,
"Catching His Eye: The Sporting Male Pictorial Press in the Gilded Age"
by Joshua Brown, Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester,
Massachusetts. The post-Civil War pictorial press covered the gamut of
the American reading public, but few publications were as brazen as
illustrated sporting papers. Depicting blood sports, sex, scandal,
crime, and, less predictably, current events, these weeklies reveled in
impropriety and outrage and were ubiquitous in bars, barbershops, hotel
lobbies, liveries, clubs, and other male enclaves. This lecture
examines the two most prominent pictorial sporting weeklies, the
National Police Gazette and The Days' Doings, and the vision of Gilded
Age America they offered to a distinctly male readership. Joshua Brown
is executive director of the American Social History Project and
professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate
Center.
Mon, Oct 19, 6:00pm, Gordon S. Wood (Brown University), "Empire of
Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815." Massachusetts
Historical Society. Free,
but registration required.
Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 7:30 – 8:30pm Erik Anderson “The Great Boston Fire
of 1872” Slides and Lecture. Adams Street Branch Boston Public
Library, 690 Adams Street, Dorchester.
Tues, Oct 20th, 2009 3:00 PM (West End Branch, Boston Public
Library,151 Cambridge Street). In Honor of Italian Heritage Month the
West End Branch Library will show the following film/documentary as
part of a series: And They Came to Chicago: The Italian American Legacy
(2007, 76 minutes).
# Wed, Oct 21, 7:00pm, Richard R. Gaillardetz (University of Toledo,
Ohio), "Fulfilling the Unrealized Vision of Vatican II." Boston
College, 9 Lake St., Room 100, Brighton Campus.
Wed, Oct 21, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Caroline Frank (Brown University),
"Native American Enslavement in Southern New England, 1630-1730."
Massachusetts Historical Society. Free and open to the public.
Wed, Oct 21, 5:30PM, Hilda Westervelt (Assistant Professor of Art
History, Boston University) "Women's Work: The Threat of Female Toil in
Greek Art and Myth" Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 200.
Thurs, Oct 22, 7:00 pm, Caroline Alexander “The War That Killed
Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War”, Harvard
Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
Thurs, Oct 22, 2009 7:30 p.m., The 6th Annual Baron Lecture, The
Nullification Crisis — and the Causes of the Civil War — Revisited by
William W. Freehling ( Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus
at the University of Kentucky and Senior Fellow at the Virginia
Foundation for the Humanities) Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury
Street, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Fri, Oct 23, 3:00 PM, Morris Dickstein Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural
History of the Great Depression, Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts
Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
Tues, Oct27 1:00 PM Michael McGuill, DVM, MPH, “Flu Pandemics in the
Bay State: A 30-Minute History” $5; Free for members, Old South Meeting
House, 310 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02108.
Tues, Oct 27, 2009 3:00 PM (West End Branch Boston Public Library 151
Cambridge Street) In Honor of Italian Heritage Month the West End
Branch Library will show the following film/documentary as part of a
series: Film Primo Levi’s Journey (2007, 92 minutes).
Wed, Oct 28, 2009 7:30 p.m., "The Kaleidoscope of History: John Brown
after Fifteen Decades" by Bruce Ronda (professor and chair of the
Department of English at Colorado State University where he teaches
American literature and culture, particularly of the nineteenth
century). Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester,
Massachusetts.
* Wed, 28 Oct, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Brown-Bag, Carol Bundy (Independent
Scholar), "McClellan's Visit to Boston, January 28-February 8, 1863."
Massachusetts Historical Society. Free and open to the public.
Thurs, Oct 29th 2009, 4:00pm, Professor Robert Beloit, Directeur du
Laboratoire RECITS, speaks on his new book "L’Affaire Suisse, on Allan
Dulles, the OSS, and the French Resistance (American Aid to the French
Resistance in World War II)." Boston University 154 Bay State
Road, 2nd floor.
NOVEMBER
Tues, Nov 3, 2009 7:30 p.m., Defending John Brown: Henry David Thoreau
and Worcester's Reform Tradition by Kevin Radaker and Edmund A.
Schofield Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester,
Massachusetts.
Wed, 4 Nov, 12:00-1:00pm, Karen Woods Weierman, Worcester State College
"The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: The Geography of Freedom in
Antebellum Boston" Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston
Street, Boston, MA 02215.
*# Wed, 4 Nov, 6:00pm, William Martin, "Creating the Past Through
Historical Fiction," facilitated by Steve Marini (Wellesley College).
This event is part of the "Creating the Past" Conversation Series at
the Massachusetts Historical Society. Free,
but registration required.
Thurs, Nov 5, 5:15pm, Michael Hoberman (Fitchburg State College), "'His
Solemn Profession of his Faith in the Messiah Already Come': Judah
Monis and the Limits of Puritan Hebraism." Massachusetts Historical
Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215. Call for Reservations
at (617) 646-0540.
Fri, Nov 6, 2009 7:30 p.m., "Warriors for Freedom: John Brown and Henry
David Thoreau" by David S. Reynolds (distinguished professor at the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His cultural
biography John Brown, Abolitionist won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding
Book Award and was the most widely reviewed book in American in the
spring of 2005. Professor Reynolds has authored or edited a dozen other
books and has won the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, and
was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award).
Mon, Nov 9, 6:00pm, Lecture & Book signing Woody Holton "Abigail
Adams: A Life" (5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Lecture), Free- registration
required Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street,
Boston, MA.
Thurs, Nov 19, 5:15pm, Sandy Zipp, "Culture and Authority on the
Superblock World: East Harlem Plaza and the Conflict over Public
Space." Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston,
MA 02215. Call for Reservations at (617) 646-0540.
DECEMBER
Thurs, Dec 3, 5:15pm, Elaine Forman Crane (Fordham University), "Cold
Comfort: Rape and Race in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island."
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
02215. Call for Reservations at (617) 646-0540.
Thurs, Dec 10, 5:15pm. Crystal Feimster (UNC Chapel Hill), "How Are the
Daughters of Eve Punished? Rape and the American Civil War. "
Schlesinger Library, 10 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02478. Call for
Reservations at (617) 646-0540.
Thurs, Dec 10, 5:30pm, Benjamin Jealous (NAACP President). “Civil
Rights: Here and Now.” The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and
Museum, Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125.
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