Adventures in Public Engagement: Historians David Armitage and Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Writing for General Audiences; moderated by Nicola Clarke
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This master class will take the form of a dialogue between two historians who teach at very different institutions and focus on different topics, periods, and places. Armitage is a Harvard professor best known for his work on the Atlantic World in the age of revolutions, while Wasserstrom, who is spending the spring as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and is best known for his work on recent Chinese history. They do, however, have four important things in common: each has done work on not just a specific part of the world but on global topics; each is passionate about communicating with non-specialists; each has published books with both university presses and trade publishers; and each has contributed to newspapers and literary reviews as well as academic journals. Befitting a work on public engagement, after starting with brief comments about their experiences and putting questions to one another, much of the time will be given over to taking and responding to queries from students.
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Department of History, Classics and Archaeology