New England and the World
October 24 & 25, 2014

The American and New England Studies Program at Boston University hosted its 2014 graduate student conference: “New England and the World in October” The conference gathered an international community of scholars.

Panels were held on a variety of New England topics: People in the City, Shaping Colonial Identities, Rethinking the New England Mind, and Community, Conflict and Cannibalism. The keynote speaker, urban historian Dolores Hayden, opened the conference with a discussion of the under representation of women designers and architects in the history of design and architecture.

Check back here in the Spring for the call for papers for the 2015/2016 conference.

 

Previous Conferences:

Beyond Production and Consumption: Refining American Material Culture Studies
March 23, 2013
Conference Poster