Leadership, Hereditary Monarchy and Ruling Empires: The Place of the Emperor in World History (Lecture by Prof. Dominic LIEVEN)
| Date(s) | Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 4:00-5:30 pm |
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| Venue |
Zoom Webinar（Register） |
| Registration | Pre-registration required |
| Language | English (English-Japanese simultaneous translation available) |
| Abstract |
This lecture – and the book on which it is based – looks at emperors and emperorship across five millennia and most of the world. It is a collective biography, a study of leadership and of hereditary monarchy as a system of government, and an insight into the huge challenges facing rulers of empire. |
| Program |
Lecture Prof. Dominic LIEVEN（University of Cambridge） Comment Prof. HANEDA Masashi（Director, Tokyo College） Moderator: Dr. Michael FACIUS（Associate Professor, Tokyo College） |
| Speaker Profile |
Dominic LIEVEN（Professor, University of Cambridge） Historian of Russian modern history and of empire. A Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His publications include Empire: the Russian Empire and its Rivals (2000), and In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History (2022). |
| Organized by | Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo |
| Contact | tokyo.college.event@tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
