NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, will speak on “The War of the World” on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at Vanderbilt University in the inaugural presentation of the 2006-07 Chancellor’s Lecture Series.
Ferguson’s lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in Ingram Hall, with a 5 p.m. reception preceding the lecture. Both events are free and open to the public, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-seated basis.
Parking is available in the South Garage, at the corner of 24th Ave South and Children’s Way.
Ferguson is a leading historian of the global economy and author of such internationally acclaimed works as The Pity of War, The CashNexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and Lessons for Global Power, Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire, and the award-winning History of the House of Rothschild.
His most recent book, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, which is expected to hit shelves Sept. 21, examines why the 20th century proved to be the most violent, frightening and brutalized century in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of World War I and the end of the Cold War. The War of the World explores what went wrong with the century and how society was responsible.
Ferguson is currently a senior research fellow at Oxford University, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and professor of international history at Harvard Business School.
A commentator on contemporary economics and politics for American and British press, Ferguson has regularly contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books and many other publications and is a regular columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
Video of the lecture will be Webcast from VUCast, Vanderbilt’s news network, www.vanderbilt.edu/news.
The Chancellor’s Lecture Series serves to bring to Vanderbilt and the wider Nashville community intellectuals who are shaping the world today. For more information about the Chancellor’s Lecture Series, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/chancellor/cls.
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