2025 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: John Shattuck
John Shattuck, international legal scholar, diplomat, human rights leader, was the keynote speaker for the 2025 Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University.
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2024 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Jelani Cobb
On October 29, Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer and dean, Columbia Journalism School, was the featured speaker at the 2024 Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University. The name of Cobb's talk was "The Half-Life of Freedom, Race, and Justice in America Today."
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2023 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Jules Gill-Peterson
On December 4, 2023, Jules Gill-Peterson, associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, was the featured speaker for the 2023 Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University. We present the recording and transcript, published with permission.
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2022 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Mae Ngai • Introduction by Takeo Rivera
On Thursday, Sept. 29, Dr. Mae Ngai was the featured speaker of the 2022 Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University. The event was phenomenal, from the introduction by Dr. Takeo Rivera, to Dr. Ngai's talk titled "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics," to the joint conversation.
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2020 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture: Ibram X. Kendi
The 2020 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture features Ibram X. Kendi in conversation with Nina Silber on Dec. 7 at 5pm EST. Kendi is professor, anti-racist activist, and historian of race and discriminatory policy, and the founding director of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research. Kendi is also the author of the National Book Award winning Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and New York Times bestselling How to Be an Antiracist.
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2019 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture: David W. Blight
David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, delivered the fourth Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture at Boston University on Monday, Dec. 2. Blight's topic is "Frederick Douglass: Prose Poet of American Democracy." The event took place at Tsai Performance Center.
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2019 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture: The Second Founding by Eric Foner
Historian Eric Foner spoke at the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series on the topic of "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Forged a Constitutional Revolution." The event took place at Boston University on March 19, 2019.
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Boston University’s Howard Zinn Lecture Series Features Bill Moyers
“Welcome to the Plutocracy”
A LECTURE BY BILL MOYERS
Enjoy an illuminating presentation, in memory of Howard Zinn, by veteran broadcast journalist and political commentator Bill Moyers. Moyers has been recognized, during his forty-year career, as one of the unique voices of his generation.
Read, Learn, & Make History
Check out the Howard Zinn Digital Collection to search Zinn’s bibliography by books, articles, audio, video, and more.
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