Grad Conference Program and Flyer Now Available!
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Lou Ferleger to discuss “the Anatomy of America’s Ultimate Investments”
We are excited to announce that next Wednesday, March 1, at 12:20 in room 504 of the History Department Building (226 Bay State Rd), Professor Lou Ferleger (BU) will present his paper, “The Anatomy of the Ultimate Investment.” Professor Ferleger is Professor of History and Department Chair. He is co-author of A New Mandate: Democratic Choices for a Prosperous […]
Updated Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Spring 2017 Seminars
Robin Scheffler to speak at APHI seminar
Mark your calendars for Robin Scheffler (MIT), who visits BU for the APHI Seminar Series on January 25 at 12:20. His talk is entitled, “Molecular Biologists Protest the War on Cancer: Biomedical Research and Setting the Limits of the State in the 1970s.” Scheffler, Assistant Professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at MIT, […]
APHI Grad Conference CFP now available!
The 2017 APHI Graduate Student Conference Call for Papers is now available. Take a look and please encourage any grad students you might know to apply! cfp-2017-aphi-grad-conference
Nicole Hemmer to visit BU
We are excited to announce that Nicole Hemmer (UVA) is in town next week, November 15 & 16 for a pair of talks at BU. On Tuesday, November 15 at 6:00pm, she will be leading a graduate student professionalization workshop, Beyond the Op-Ed Page: Public Engagement in the New Media Age. Then, on Wednesday, November 16, at […]
APHI and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies present: Wendy Kline on “The Emergence of the Hippie Midwife”
kline talk We are excited to announce that coming up Wednesday, October 26, at noon in room 504 of the History Department Building (226 Bay State Rd), Professor Wendy Kline (Purdue) will present her paper, “‘Psychedelic Birth: The Emergence of the Hippie Midwife.” The paper is a draft chapter from her book project for Oxford University Press. Kline […]
2016-2017 Seminar Series lineup announced!
We are excited to announce this year’s APHI seminar series. Check out the poster and click the link below for your own copy! APHI 2016-17 Seminar Series
DA Hellema to Present: The Global Seventies
Mark September 7 on your calendars for a very special presentation co-sponsored by BU History and APHI: Duco Hellema (University of Utrecht), “The Radical Decade: A Global History of the 1970s”! Hellema is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Utrecht, and his publications include The Netherlands in the World: The Foreign […]
Upcoming book talk at Harvard Book Store: Meg Jacobs on the Seventies Energy Crisis
Tomorrow night at 7, Meg Jacobs (Princeton) is in town discussing her new book, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s at the Harvard Book Store (1256 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge). Click the link for a synopsis of the project as well as further details about the event: http://www.harvard.com/event/meg_jacobs/?utm_source=Meg+Jacobs+Invite&utm_campaign=MegJacobsInvite&utm_medium=email. Jacobs is Research Scholar […]