2012: Ruptures and Revolutions
This year’s conference, Ruptures and Revolutions: Moments of Unrest and Change, seeks the impact and meaning of transformations and unrest in an increasingly global community. The conference aims to highlight intersections of both historical and interdisciplinary value and to engage with multifaceted themes that are particularly relevant to numerous contemporary fields of historical inquiry, both inside and outside the academy. Our hope is to engage with historical topics that not only cross disciplinary boundaries, but that reach within and beyond to embrace Civil Society and active public protest, contemporary and historical.
The conference’s primary goal is to encourage a more interdisciplinary discussion that reaches into the local community and engages with a variety of sources and perspectives. We understand Ruptures and Revolutions as social, cultural, intellectual, and historical transformations. From the Copernican model to MTV, from Classical Greece to Gay Liberation, from the printing press to blogging, from the Boston Tea Party to Occupied Wall Street movements, our lives continuously intersect with the Ruptures and Revolutions of the past, present, and future. Our hope is to engage and continue with these dialogs cross disciplinary boundaries, and to reach beyond the social and academic borders that influence our understandings how Ruptures and Revolutions transform social, intellectual, and cultural change.
Conference Schedule
Paul Lucas Conference in History 2012
Paul Lucas Conference in History 2012
Friday: March 23, 2012
3:00- 4:15
Grant-Writing Workshop
Bridgwaters Lounge, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
Professor Michelle Moyd
Professor Ellen Wu
Daniel Beben, Ph.D. candidate
Sarah Rowley, Ph.D. candidate
4:15- 6:00
Conference Registration
Lobby of Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
5:00- 6:30
Ruptures and Revolutions Across the Disciplines : A Round Table
Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
Prof. Nicholas Cullather (History)
Prof. Aide Acosta (Latino Studies & American Studies) Prof. Andrei Molotiu (History of Art)
6:45- 8:00
Wine & Cheese Welcome
Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
Saturday: March 24, 2012
8:30- 9:00
Breakfast
8:45- 12:15
Conference Registration
Room 200 (Hallway), BU, Kelley School of Business
9:00- 10:30
Print Media in African American History
Room 200, BU, Kelley School of Business
The Impact of Religion and Politics on Childhood and Education
Room 213, BU, Kelley School of Business
10:45- 12:15
Native American Identities and Politics
Room 200, BU, Kelley School of Business
Music and Revolution
Room 213, BU, Kelley School of Business
12:30- 2:00
Lunch & Keynote
Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Marvin Sterling (Department of Anthropology, Indiana University)
2:15- 3:45
The Rhetoric of Race-Mixing, Whiteness, and Sex in South Africa
Room 200, BU, Kelley School of Business
Undergraduate Panel: United States History
Room 213, BU, Kelley School of Business
4:00- 5:30
Constructions of Individualism, Political Identity, and Regionalism
Room 200, BU, Kelley School of Business
The Role of Media and Religion during Middle Eastern Revolutions
Room 213, BU, Kelley School of Business
Sunday: March 25, 2012
8:30- 9:00
Breakfast
9:00- 10:30
The Impact of Media and Identity in Latin American Revolutions
Room 301, BU, Kelley School of Business
Imperial Tourism, Rhetoric, and Conquest
Room 307, BU, Kelley School of Business
10:45- 12:15
Changing Conceptions of Knowledge and Technology
Room 301, BU, Kelley School of Business
Loving in the Years of Revolution: Writing and Protest in the Middle East
Room 307, BU, Kelley School of Business
12:30- 1:30: Workshop Luncheon
The Challenges of Archival Research: A Practical Discussion
Room 301, BU, Kelley School of Business
Chair: Professor Ben Eklof (Indiana University, Russian History)
Fred Pratt (African History)
Erin Corber (French and Jewish History)
Susan Eckelmann (Childhood and African American History)
Sandrine Catris (Chinese History)
