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2012 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies
Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and professor of history at Columbia University, will deliver the 2012 Reckford Lecture. The free, public talk will take place Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hanes Art Center auditorium. Mazower, director of both the Center for International History and the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia, is an expert on the history of Europe since 1940 and will speak to “The European Union and the Crisis of Global Governance.”
| When | February 16, 2012 from 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm |
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| Where | Hanes Art Center Auditorium |
| Contact Name | Elaine Erteschik |
| Contact Email | elainee@email.unc.edu |
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Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and professor of history at Columbia University, will deliver the 2012 Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture in European Studies.
The free, public talk will take place Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hanes Art Center auditorium. Mazower, director of both the Center for International History and the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia, is an expert on the history of Europe since 1940 and will speak to “The European Union and the Crisis of Global Governance.”
With Europe in the midst of a crisis that has defied resolution and put the very existence of the European Union in doubt, the IAH welcomes the opportunity to hear Mazower’s perspective on the current situation and to engage him in a conversation about Europe’s future.
Immediately following the lecture, the IAH will host a reception and book signing in the Hanes Art Center for Mazower.
Mazower will also participate in a workshop on “Minorities, Institutions and Human Rights: World War I to Libya” the next day from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Pleasants’ Family Assembly Room of Wilson Library. This forum is also free and open to the public.
Mazower specializes in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history. His books include Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 (Yale University Press, 1993); Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century (Knopf, 1998); The Balkans (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000); and After the War was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943-1960 (Princeton UP, 2000).
His Salonica City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (HarperCollins, 2004) was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize. In 2008 he published Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Allen Lane), which won that year’s LA Times Book Prize for History.
His most recent book is No Enchanted Palace: the End of Empire (Princeton University Press, 2009), and he is currently working on a history of internationalism. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his articles and reviews on history and current affairs appear regularly in Financial Times, The Guardian, London Review of Books, The Nation and The New Republic.
UNC Classics Professor Kenneth J. Reckford established the lecture series in 1990 to honor his wife, Mary Stevens Reckford. The lecture is designed to appeal to educated lay people, rather than specialists. Speakers are asked to provide “pleasure, instruction, an interdisciplinary approach and a sense of shared humanity.”
A graduate of Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mary Reckford took graduate courses at UNC through the Evening College for five years, studying such topics as Renaissance intellectual history, St. Augustine, sixteenth-century English literature, Arthurian literature, the Mediterranean world in the sixteenth century, and the history of science from the late-medieval period through the eighteenth century. She was mother to the Reckford’s five children, Rachel, Joseph, Jonathan, Sam and Sarah.
