Friday, October 2, 2015 - 12:30pm to Saturday, October 3, 2015 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall - 84 Queen's Park

Critical Analysis of Law Workshop Series
presents 

David Armitage
Harvard University Department of History

Worlds of Civil War:
Globalizing Civil War in the Late Twentieth Century 

Friday, October 2, 2015
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

David Armitage, MA, PhD, CorrFRSE, FRHistS, FAHA, is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair (2012-14, 2015-16) of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. He is also an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Department of Government, an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School and an Honorary Professor of History at theUniversity of Sydney. He is on leave for the academic year 2014-15. 

He was born in Britain and educated at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University; before moving to Harvard in 2004, he taught for eleven years at Columbia University. A prize-winning teacher and writer, he has lectured on six continents and has held research fellowships and visiting positions in Britain, France, the United States and Australia.  David Armitage is the author or editor of fifteen books, among them 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,  (2013) and The History Manifesto (co-auth., 2014), a New Statesman Book of the Year. His most recent edited works are Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (co-ed., 2009), also a TLS Book of the Year, The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (co-ed., 2010), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (co-ed., 2014). His articles and essays have appeared in journals, newspapers and collections around the world and his works have been translated into Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish, with others soon to appear in Greek, Korean, Russian and Turkish.  He is co-editor of two book series with Cambridge University Press, Ideas in Context and Cambridge Oceanic Histories, a Syndic of the Harvard University Press and a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for the History of British Political Thought at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He also sits on the editorial boards of History of European Ideas, the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Modern Intellectual History and Il Pensiero politico, and on the Academic Steering Committee of the Open Library of the Humanities.
 

A light lunch will be provided.
 

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca