Simon Schama on The Past and Its Publics
The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) are pleased to announce a roundtable conversation with world renowned art historian Simon Schama as part of his Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Historiography 2015-2016. Simon Schama will be joined by Craig Clunas (Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford) and Margaret MacMillan (Professor of International History, University of Oxford).
Simon Schama is a Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. He has taught history and art history at Cambridge (Christ’s College), Oxford (Brasenose College) and Harvard. His books have been translated into fifteen languages and have won the Wolfson Award for History, the W.H Smith Prize for Literature, the National Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Non-Fiction (2007). They include Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989); Landscape and Memory (1995); Rembrandt’s Eyes (1999); the History of Britain trilogy (2000-2002); Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (2006); and The Power of Art (2007), the novellas Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations and a collection of art essays Hang-Ups, Essays on Painting (Mostly). He is also known as a writer-presenter of documentaries for the BBC and PBS, including “A History of Britain” and the recent eight-part series “The Power of Art.
Register for your free ticket at torch.ox.ac.uk/simon-schama-past-and-its-publics
Date:
11 May 2016, 17:30 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2016)
Venue:
University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road OX1 3PW
Speakers:
Craig Clunas (Oxford),
Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford),
Simon Schama (Columbia University)
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
humanitas@humanities.ox.ac.uk
Host:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Humanitas
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Booking required?:
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Booking url:
http://torch.ox.ac.uk/simon-schama-past-and-its-publics
Booking email:
humanitas@humanities.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Laura Miller
