Ali Banuazizi is Research Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies at M.I.T. After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968, he taught at Yale and the University of Southern California before joining the faculty of Boston College in 1971. Since then, he has held visiting appointments at the University of Tehran, Princeton, Harvard, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Oxford, and M.I.T. He served as the founding editor of the journal of Iranian Studies, from 1968 to 1982. He is a past president of the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) and of the Middle East Studies Association in North America (MESA); associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World; and currently editor-in-chief of Freedom of Thought Journal. Ali Banuazizi is the author of numerous articles on society, culture, and politics of Iran and the Middle East, and coauthor (with A. Ashraf) of Social Classes, the State and Revolution in Iran (2008) and coeditor (with M. Weiner) of three books on politics, religion, and society in Southwest and Central Asia.
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Stephanie Leyton, GBH News, Emily Judem, GBH News, Susan E. Eaton, author of The Other Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line.
Modern Theatre
Rohit Lamba is the coauthor of Breaking the Mold: India's Untraveled Path to Prosperity, assistant professor of economics at Cornell University and visiting assistant professor of economics at New York University Abu Dhabi. He previously worked as an economist at the office of the chief economic adviser to the Government of India.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Margery Eagan, co-host of GBH’s “Boston Public Radio” Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College professor of history Eileen McNamara, Pulitzer Prize-winning former Boston Globe columnist and Brandeis professor emerita of the practice of journalism
John F. Kennedy Library
Daniela V. Fernandez
New England Aquarium
Kevin Coffee is an archaeologist and museologist whose research explores the materiality of late-modern societal development, especially urbanization and industrialization. From 2018 into 2023, he was the chief interpretation and education officer at Lowell National Historical Park in Lowell MA. He has published about urban development and industrialization in Industrial Archaeology Review, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, and in the Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics. He has presented on the subject to annual meetings of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, and the Society for Industrial Archeology. He is also the author of Museums and Social Responsibility (Routledge 2023) and Objective Culture and the End of the Museum (Routledge 2025).
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Jehuda Reinharz, PhD, and Alexander Kaye, PhD,
Suffolk University - Sargent Hall
Dr. Jenn Lindsay, Dr. Wesley Wildman, Dr. Nicolette Manglos-Weber, Dr. James McCarty
Boston University School of Theology Community Center
Kennedy Library Director and chess national master Alan Price will conduct a simultaneous exhibition with up to 30 different chess players.
John F. Kennedy Library
Rick Kfoury is a railroad historian and author with an express interest in New England railroading in the second half of the twentieth century. He has authored four books on the subject, The New England Southern Railroad Volumes I and II, Queen City Rails: Manchester's Railroads 1965-1990, and Steam Trains of Yesteryear: The Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Story. A 2018 graduate of the Keene State College history program, Rick currently serves as President and Newsletter Editor for the Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society and is employed in college admissions for Southern New Hampshire University. The Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization composed of people who want to share their knowledge, and learn more about, the history and operations of the Boston and Maine Railroad, its predecessors, and successors. The Society was founded in 1971 and comprises over 1,000 active members from the New England region and beyond.
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Miles Borrero in conversation with Pascale Florestal
Virtual
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