Keith Sinclair Lecture, Professor David Armitage
13 August 2014
What explains the broadening of histories? And what does it mean for the future of history? This lecture makes a case for history as a discipline of social and political transformation amid crises of global governance, rising inequality and anthropogenic climate change.
David Armitage, MA, PhD, CorrFRSE, FRHistS, FAHA, is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history.
