A B Emden Lecture 2023 - Gulliver’s Travails: Treaties in the Making – and the Breaking – of the Modern World.
Professor David Armitage talks on ‘Gulliver’s Travails: Treaties in the Making—and the Breaking—of the Modern World’.
David Armitage, MA, PhD, LittD, CorrFRSE, FRHistS, FAHA, MAE, is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and former Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history.
He is the author or editor of eighteen books, most recently Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017). Among his earlier works are The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), which won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), which was chosen as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013) and The History Manifesto (co-auth., 2014), a New Statesman Book of the Year and one of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s most influential books of the past 20 years. His most recent edited books are A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment (co-ed., 2020), Oceanic Histories(co-ed., 2018), The Law of Nations in Global History (co-ed., 2017) and Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (co-ed., 2014).
He is completing an edition of John Locke’s colonial writings and is working on a global history of treaty-making and treaty-breaking and on a study of opera and international law. His articles and essays have appeared in journals, newspapers and collections around the world and his works have been translated into fifteen languages.
Please note: this lecture will be recorded and published on St Edmund Hall’s digital and print communication platforms where appropriate.
Date:
12 October 2023, 17:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue:
St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details:
Doctorow Hall
Speaker:
Professor David Armitage (Harvard University)
Organiser contact email address:
events@seh.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
A B Emden Lectures
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-b-emden-lecture-2023-tickets-696554793137
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Claire Parfitt
