Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities fellows program

Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture

Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, will present this year's Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture, entitled "The Space of Nations: Territory and History Before Globalization," at 4:10 p.m. on Monday, October 29th (Flynn Auditorium). Maier, a renowned scholar of European social and intellectual history, is the author most recently of Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (2006), and has written or edited books on communism, the Holocaust, national identity, political economy, the politics of inflation, the Marshall Plan, and other themes. Together with William Kirby and Sugata Bose, Maier is collaborating on a global history of the twentieth century, and he is writing a history of modern territoriality. He has been the recipient of several distinguished fellowships, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies from 1994-2001, and again in autumn 2006. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991.

Past Lectures

For more information, contact the Center's executive director, Mona C. Frederick.

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