Event Date: September 17, 2008 - 4:00 pm
Location: Social Sciences Building, room 4004, 120 University Private
A lecture by Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St-Antony’s College, Oxford.
Organized by the Graduate School of Public & International Affairs.
Registration is not required. This event will be in English.
Professor MacMillan’s publications include Women of the Raj as well as Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World which won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, the Silver Medal for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award and the Governor-General’s prize for non-fiction in 2003. She has subsequently written Canada’s House: Rideau Hall and the Invention of a Canadian Home, jointly with Marjorie Harris and Anne L. Desjardins. Her latest book, Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World was nominated in January 2007 for a Gelber Prize, awarded annually to the best book on international affairs published in English.