November 18, 2009

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 – 5:15 PM

Location: Vancouver, BC

The Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Society of British Columbia
PATRON: THE LADY SOAMES, L.G., D.B.E.

PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH CHURCHILL:
Churchill’s Thoughts as Adventures

with guest speaker Professor James Muller, Professor of Political Science, University of Alaska and The Society’s Annual General Meeting

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Please join us at our Meeting and Evening on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at the Vancouver Club, UBC Room, 915 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC. Dress is business attire. After our brief AGM, guest speaker, Professor James W. Muller, will make a presentation entitled “Churchill’s Thoughts as Adventures”.

A renowned Churchillian lecturer, Professor Muller, will examine Churchill’s adventurous life through the prism of his engaging interwar essays in Thoughts and Adventures (originally published in 1932, during his “wilderness years”), of which he has just finished the definitive new edition.

Churchill’s achievements as a statesman have eclipsed his parallel career as a writer, which was even longer than his service in Parliament. One of the highest-paid journalists of his time, Churchill wrote more than forty books and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. His adventurous life was the basis for reflections, both grave and gay, on the challenges of life in the twentieth century. In this book, Churchill writes about spies, cartoons, flying, elections, the Great War, painting, the future, and what it would be like to live your life over again. Reading Thoughts and Adventures is like being invited to dinner at Churchill’s country seat at Chartwell, where the soup was limpid, Pol Roger Champagne flowed, the pudding had a theme, and Churchill entertained lucky visitors with vivid conversation.

Join us for an evening of fun and thought-provoking reflections from the man who not only made history but also interprets it for a new generation in the twenty-first century.

Professor James W. Muller is chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where he has taught since 1983, and co-founder of the Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program, which offers opportunities and challenges to exceptional students who study the foundations of free government in America in preparation to take their places as the next generation of leaders for Alaska. He is academic chairman of the Churchill Centre and a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. One of the leading interpreters of Churchill’s writings, he regularly leads Churchill tours on the Queen Mary 2 for the Smithsonian Institution. He received the Farrow Award for Excellence in Churchill Studies in 1995 and an award for distinguished service to the humanities from Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in 2008. A 1973 graduate of Harvard College, he studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1973-74 and received his doctorate in political science from Harvard University in 1982. In 1983-84 he served as a White House Fellow in the U. S. Department of Education.

Professor Muller is editor of The Revival of Constitutionalism (1988), Churchill as Peacemaker (1997), Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech Fifty Years Later (1999), and definitive new editions of Winston S. Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures (ISI Books, 2009), and Winston S. Churchill, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 vols. (St. Augustine’s Press, forthcoming 2010). He is at work on a new edition of Winston S. Churchill, Great Contemporaries (ISI Books, forthcoming 2010), and on a book about Churchill’s writings, to be called The Education of Winston Churchill.

A formal Notice of the Annual General Meeting accompanied by the relevant AGM materials will be sent to members at a future date.

 

Date: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Location: Ball Room, the Vancouver Club, 915 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B.C.
Time: Wine & Cheese starts at 5:15 pm, Program from 5:50 – 7:00 pm

Cost: $30 for a Member accompanied by a spouse or a family member
$20 each for Member, a Member’s guest or a non-Member
(The ticket cost includes one beverage ticket per attendee for 1 glass of wine or beer, or for 2 soft drinks. Additional drinks can be purchased from the bar)

Please inform our Society Administrator, Linda Metcalfe, of your attendance by Email at [email protected] or  by voice registration at 604-290-0880, or registering online at www.winstonchurchillbc.org .

I look forward to seeing you on November 18th. Please feel free to send this notice to any interested parties.

Ian E. Marshall, Secretary
Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Society of British Columbia

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