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Thanksgiving: The Making Of An American Holiday
Pilgrims in tall black hats and Indians in feathered headdresses may be the most commonly recognized emblems of Thanksgiving, one of America's most popular national holidays (it surpasses Christmas as the busiest travel time of the year). But the [...]real origins of the holiday have little to do with Plymouth Rock and a lot more to do with a nation in turmoil during the Civil War — more than 200 years after the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620. BU Today asked anthropologists Merry White, a College of Arts and Sciences professor, and Tony Barrand, a CAS professor and a University Professor, to give us some insight into the foggy beginnings of America's favorite day.
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Who would you put on Mount Rushmore?
Boston University experts discuss who they would put on Mount Rushmore.
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What Is Asia?
A recent Journal of Asian Studies special issue questioned the ‘meaning’ of Asia in the current and future world. In a time that many have already called the “Asian Century,†this panel, in collaboration with the Boston [...]University Center for the Study of Asia, continues the discussion started by the journal. The panel was moderated by the Director of the Pardee Center Professor Adil Najam, and featured academically diverse points of view from professors M. David Eckel (BU Religion), Robert Hefner (BU Anthropology), and Eugenio Menegon (BU History).
Hosted by the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on February 14, 2011.
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25 Landmarks in 25 Minutes
History buff and avid jogger Patrick Kennedy takes you on a tour of 25 national historical Boston landmarks in under 25 minutes.
Read the full story on BU Today: /today/2011/25-historic-landmarks-in-25-minutes/
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History Department Panel Machiavelli's "The Prince" After 500 Years
Panelists will include: Michael Ignatieff, renowned author, academic, and public servant, James Johnson, a teacher in the History Department at Boston University, and Edward Muir, the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor at Northwestern University.
[...]Hosted by Boston University History Department on February 6, 2013.
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Maize & Malaria: An Economic Transformation
Prof. James McCann explains how an economic transformation lead to a transformation in agriculture and disease and what his five year Rockefeller Foundation study of the links between maize and malaria is doing about it.
More information including [...]the documentary "Maize & Malaria" is available at the Pardee Center multimedia page: /pardee/multimedia-library/2012-archive/maize-malaria-documentary/
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CAS Presents: Were We Really So Innocent? Americans in Paris in the 1920s with Brooke Blower
Brooke Blower, Professor of History at BU's College of Arts & Sciences, discusses her recent book about Americans in Paris in the 1920s, titled "Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars." In the book, she [...]challenges Americans' notion of ourselves as "innocents abroad" and describes a much more nuanced reality.
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Redrawing Maps, Rerouting Votes: Gerrymandering & the Geography of Political Power
February 2012 is the bicentennial of the practice Gerrymandering, accomplished by Massachusetts' Governor Elbridge Gerry. 2012 is also the next scheduled round of redistricting in Massachusetts - as well as being a major election year. Faculty from [...]the Departments of History and Political Science discuss redistricting, shifts in population, and the impact on electoral outcomes. The event includes guest speaker Rep. Michael Moran, who represents the 18th Suffolk District, Brighton and a part of Brookline in the Massachusetts State House.
Discoveries, a lecture and learning series, taps the strength of Boston University faculty to give alumni a deeper look into the world and their lives.
Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences and the BU Alumni Association on February 9, 2012.
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Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
Creating the Disciplinary Space of Philosophy of Science: A History of the PSA Before 1970 by Heather Douglas, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee.
The Boston University Center for Philosophy & History of Science was [...]founded in 1960 as an interdepartmental, inter-university forum on the nature of science.
Hosted by the Center for Philosophy and History of Science on October 22, 2010.
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