{"id":848,"date":"2017-01-30T17:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T17:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/?p=848"},"modified":"2017-01-31T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:06:01","slug":"2017-annual-nicolai-rubinstein-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/2017\/01\/30\/2017-annual-nicolai-rubinstein-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Annual Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are pleased to announce the details for this year’s annual Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception, to which all are welcome. Booking is essential, please register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaker:\u00a0<\/strong>Professor Susan Pedersen, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Columbia University<\/p>\n

Chair:<\/strong> Professor Julian Jackson, QMUL<\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0<\/strong>“The League of Nations Secretariat as a Site of Political Imagination”<\/p>\n

Blurb:<\/strong><\/p>\n

What difference did the League of Nations Secretariat make to the practice and theory of international politics?\u00a0 This talk takes us inside the Secretariat to meet some of the men (and one woman) who headed up its different sections, delving into the records of their internal \u201ckitchen cabinet\u201d meetings to uncover what they themselves thought they were doing.\u00a0 The League\u2019s high officials talked freely among themselves about the nature and scope of their authority, about how to balance national loyalties and international service, and about how to deal with public complaints of ineffectuality or lack of accountability.\u00a0 Self-consciously, unevenly and buffeted by political winds, they nonetheless developed strategies and practices that challenged and changed the international system and that still influence it to this day.\u00a0 Historians and political theorists should pay more attention to the Secretariat as a site for political innovation and political thought.<\/p>\n

Speaker Brief Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Susan Pedersen is Morris Professor of British History at Columbia University.\u00a0 She has written widely on British, European and international politics after 1900.\u00a0 Her first book examined the way European welfare states came to account for dependence; her second book, a biography of the visionary social theorist and social reformer Eleanor Rathbone, appeared from Yale University Press in 2004.\u00a0 Pedersen\u2019s new book, The Guardians:\u00a0 The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2015) was awarded the 2015 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature.<\/p>\n

Pedersen received her B.A. and PhD from Harvard University, where she was Professor of History and served for a time as Dean for Undergraduate Education before moving to Columbia in 2003.\u00a0 She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Radcliffe Institute, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, among others.\u00a0 In 2014 she delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford University on the subject of \u201cInternationalism and Empire:\u00a0 British Dilemmas, 1919-39\u201d. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are pleased to announce the details for this year’s annual Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception, to which all are welcome. Booking is essential, please register here. Speaker:\u00a0Professor Susan Pedersen, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Columbia University Chair: Professor […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-the-nicolai-rubinstein-lecture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}