Book Reading and Lecture Series
Spring Lectures
Urban Spaces Lectures
Lecture I: Friday 2/28 2:30 - 4pm by Linda Dittmar, UMB, and Deborah Bright, RISD Slide Lecture on “Palestine Inside of Israel: Deconstruction Layer" Healey Library, 11th fl. Small Lecture Room
Lecture II: Wednesday 3/5 2:30 - 4pm by Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia Univerity Slide Lecture on “Excavating the History of American Modern Architecture” Chancellor'sConference Room, Quinn Admin 3rd fl.
For questions, call 617-287-6715
2007-2008 Events
All Events Are Free and Open to the Public. Directions and Campus Map
For Conference on "The Making of Taste" see below
Fall Events:
The Annual Betty and Matt Flaherty Lecture
Fall 07 Lecture: September 10th, 5-7:30pm. Lecture byProf. Lizabeth Cohen,Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies,Harvard University, on "Ed Logue and the Building of a New Boston: Renewing American Cities in the Era of Mass Suburbanization"
The Annual Faculty Symposium: "Buried Memories: The Covering, Uncovering, Recovering of Urban Lived Experience" on November 2nd, 3-5 CC UL211. Presentations by Jean Humez, Women's Studies; David Landon, The Fiske Center for Historical Archaeology; Luis Aponte-Pares, CPCS; Vincent Cannato, History; and Shirley S. Tang, Asian American Studies.
Spring Events:
Urban Spaces Lectures (see at right)
Faculty Conference for Student"Gender and Cultural Significance" on March 28th, 2:30-5pm in Healey Library, 11th fl, Large Lecture Room with faculty presentations by David Areford, Art; Heike Schotten, Political Science; Robert Lublin, Theatre Arts; Betsy Klimasmith, English; and Chris Bobel, Women's Studies.
NEXT EVENT ~~~~~~~ 
East Meets West: Luxury, Taste, Tourism, Gastronomy, Flowers, Antiquities, and Consumer Culture ~~~~~~~~
2-Day Scholarly Conference "Cosmopolitan Culture, Consumption and the Making of Taste 1600-1770" on Friday, April 25th, 5-7:45pm and Saturday, April 26th, 9am-4:30pm Healey Library, 11th fl, Large Lecture Room Keynotes on “Aristocratic Tourism and
Consumer Culture in England” by Linda Peck, George Washington Univ. and “The Comparative Histories of Consumer Culture in China and the West” by Kenneth Pomeranz, UC Irvine, and Plenaries on "The Cultures of Chocolate and Coffee" by Marcy Norton, George Washington Univ. and on “New Worlds, New Tastes: Coffee and the Invention of Gastronomy in Early Modern Europe” by Brian Cowan, McGill Univ; panel papers by Elizabeth Hyde, Tamara Griggs, Joanna Waley-Cohen, Timothy Brook; responses by Malcolm Smuts and Nancy Berliner
Schedule in pdf format and ms word; Flyer