Thursday, March 8th and Saturday, March 10th
Location: University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Campus
Lecture
Churchill’s World of Paper and Ink:
The Statesman as Author
Thursday, March 8, 7:30 p.m.
Room to be announced.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Winston Churchill’s career as a writer was even longer than his career in politics, beginning with his first book on Queen Victoria’s “little wars” in 1898 and ending with his History of the English-Speaking Peoples six decades later. He wrote more than forty books and in 1953 won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What kind of books did he write, what was his purpose in writing them, and what did he achieve as a writer?
Seminar
Thoughts as Adventures: Churchill’s Interwar
Saturday, March 10, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Law School, Room 2442.
Registration for the seminar is free and open to the public. However, because there is a maximum capacity, registration is required. You may register by sending an e-mail to Professor Daniel Lowenstein.
Readings for the seminar will be will be selected essays from Churchill’s Thoughts and Adventures. These will be provided to those who register. A pizza lunch will be delivered following the discussion.
James W. Muller is a professor of political science at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the chair of the Board of Academic Advisors of The Churchill Centre. At Anchorage, Professor Muller has been one of the founders and directors of the Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program, whose objectives parallel those of CLAFI. In addition to extensive writings on Churchill, Professor Muller has written on other authors including Montesquieu (the subject of his dissertation), Tocqueville and, however improbably, P.G. Wodehouse. He has edited two of Churchill’s books, The River War and Thoughts and Adventures. Professor Muller received his Ph.D. in political science at Harvard in 1982.
For Professor Muller’s biography, please follow this link.
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