The Monarch's History Men: What has changed over three centuries?

Tue 14 May

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre

About the speakers:

Professor Ludmilla Jordanova became Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture at Durham University on 1st November 2019. She joined Durham in 2013, and between 2015 and 2019 she was Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture.

Her current interests include: portraiture since 1600; the ethical dimensions of historical practice; visual, material and sonic culture, and especially their roles in public life; galleries and museums; the capacity of classical music broadly defined to change lives; interdisciplinarity.

Regius Professor of History Christopher Clark's research interests are centred on the history of nineteenth-century Germany and continental Europe. His early work focused on the political and cultural history of religion. His first book was a study of the relationship between Christians and the Jewish minority in Prussia between 1728 and 1941; here he explored the ways in which contemporary understandings of Christianity shaped successive mutations of the 'Jewish Question'. Since then he has published various articles and essays on related subjects - some of them examine the trouble that results when the state authority takes the initiative in religious questions, others look at the ways in which questions of religious allegiance were implicated in processes of political and cultural change. In 2004 he co-edited, with Wolfram Kaiser of the University of Portsmouth, an edited volume about the 'culture war' between Catholic and secular social forces that polarised so many European states in the years 1850-1890. In the meanwhile, he has published a study of Kaiser Wilhelm II (2000) for the Longmans/Pearson series Profiles in Power and completed a general history of Prussia for Penguin, due out in spring 2006. He is currently working on a study of political change across Europe in the aftermath of the 1848 revolutions.

Cost: Free - tickets are on eventbrite