Date: Mar 22
6:30 pm
- 9:00 pm
Where: Theatre
Distinguished Harvard scholar David Armitage discusses how our fragile world is held together by around 70,000 different kinds of treaties. These legal agreements impact almost every aspect of our lives, from semiconductors, to the exploitation of outer space, to the terms of land settlements. Unfortunately we tend to mainly focus on these agreements when they're broken. This lecture takes a wide-angle, long-range historical view of treaties in all their forms to ask just what they do, and how they continue to be important in shaping so much of our contemporary world.
This is a free event, but a ticket is required. Please reserve your free ticket online or by calling (709) 757-8090. A reception will follow the talk.
About the Presenter:
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 currently a Senior Scholar of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School, an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Department of Government, an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, an Honorary Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast and an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney.
Presented in partnership with Memorial University's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lecture Series brings a highly regarded scholar to Memorial University every year for a guest lecture.