MISC Distinguished Lecture Series events
Annual Cundill Lecture, "The Long Road to the First Anglo-Chinese War", by Stephen R. Platt
2013 Cundill Lecture, From 2012 Cundill Prize Winner Stephen R. Platt "Imperial Eclipse: The Long Road to the First Anglo-Chinese War" The Opium War, or First Anglo-Chinese War, of 1839-1842 has long served historians as the chosen starting point for China’s modern history, the launching point of its “century of humiliation” from which successive governments have promised redemption. But such treatment sets the war in stone, as if China’s military weakness and Britain’s predatory aggression in Canton were eternal and unchanging facts.
A talk by Professor Manuel Velázquez León
Visiting Professor Manuel Velázquez León will give lunch time lecture at the MISC building on Canada/Cuba relations. Exact time to be announced.
Annual Seagram Lecture, by Malcolm Gladwell ("David and Goliath"), in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
Renowned Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw) delivers this year’s Seagram Lecture, in the company of CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel (Writers and Company), who is also a MISC Board of Trustees member. Gladwell will be celebrating the release of his latest book, David and Goliath.
