南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院
名家讲坛第212期 人文基金讲座第119讲
题目： The Future of Britain
讲座人：美国格林奈尔学院（Grinnell College）历史学教授
南京大学历史学院兼职教授
Don Smith
主持人：南京大学高研院副院长 从丛教授
评论人：美国格林奈尔学院（Grinnell College）历史学教授
Andrew Hsieh（谢正光）
时间：2017年5月23日（周二）下午14:00-15:30
地点：仙林校区邵逸夫楼C308高研院报告厅
备注：英语演讲
讲座提要及主讲人简介：
Twenty-five years ago the eminent British historian Linda Colley published
Britons, Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. In this book she analyzed the long
process by which the English, the Welsh, and the Scots assumed the one
identity of "British" and the nation of Great Britain, formed in 1707. The
unified identity of "British" was received by the third decade of the
nineteenth century. Now, a quarter century after Professor Colley's book
appeared I propose to examine the stresses and strains which Great Britain has
undergone, notably those of Scottish and, to a lesser degree, of Welsh
nationalism, and that of what has come to be known as "Brexit." I shall pose
the question, "Will Britain break apart into the several components from which
it was "forged." In other words, "Does Britain have a future and, if so,
what will it be?
Professor Don Smith graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1957 and earned
while on a Rhodes Scholarship the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of
Arts from the University of Oxford in 1959 and 1968. He entered Yale
University in 1959 and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History
in 1965. He taught British and modern European history at Yale beginning in 19
63 until 1970. He taught at Grinnell from 1970 until he retired. He has
written and spoken on British and French history in journals and books such as
the New Dictionary of National Biography, English Historical Review, Journal
of Modern History, Victorian Studies, and Tocqueville Review. |
