E H Carr Annual Lecture

Thursday 27 October, 6.00pm, Main Hall, International Politics Building. Prof Margaret MacMillan, University of Oxford, 'Sometimes It Matters Who is in Power'

The Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University welcomes members of the public as well as university staff and students to this year’s EH Carr Memorial Lecture, now widely regarded as the most distinguished named lecture series in the field of international politics.

This year, giving the 33rd Carr Lecture, is Professor Margaret MacMillan, presently Warden of St Anthony’s College Oxford.  She is a renowned and prize-winning author of several international bestsellers, and many people will have become familiar with her voice on Radio 4 in 2014 on programmes marking the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War. 

Professor Ken Booth of the Department of International Politics says: ‘We are tremendously lucky to be able to welcome Margaret to Aberystwyth: she must be one of the busiest academics anywhere, with her scholarly teaching and research, media work, managerial responsibilities, and public engagement.  Her life is surrounded by history, not only professionally but personally: she is a great granddaughter of David Lloyd George, and aunt to the historian Dan Snow. Her books – the latest is History’s People: Personalities and the Past - blend the big picture with accounts of single individuals.  She is a consummate story-teller, offering fascinating details alongside narratives of major themes.   We are guaranteed an outstanding lecture on what is surely one of the hottest topics in the UK and indeed the world today: ‘Sometimes it matters who is in power.’

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:21:00 BST