Athens State to host British Historian Jeremy Black

Athens, ALA. -  The College of Arts and Sciences of Athens State University is proud to announce that Jeremy Black, Professor of History at England’s University of Exeter, will be presenting a lecture later this month.  Black’s visit to campus is sponsored by The Livingston Concert Lecture Series.

The lecture will be held in the chapel of Founders Hall on Friday, October 28 at 7:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Ron Fritze, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, states, “I am proud that we are able to host a historian such as Dr. Black.  I have heard him speak on many occasions and know he will present an interesting address that is sure to impress the many local historians of the area.”

Black is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.  He is the author of over seventy books, especially on eighteenth century British politics and international relations.

Black graduated from Queen’s College Cambridge and has lectured extensively in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy as well as the United State.  He has also recently been involved with the Oxford Discovery Programme on the Transatlantic Crossing of the Queen Mary 2; where he delivered a series of 4 lectures.

 

                                                                                                Guy McClure
                                                                                          256-233-8126
                                                                                                Guy.McClure@athens.edu 
October 13, 2011
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