Alison Winter Lecture Series
Alison Winter, Professor of History and Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago, was the Director of the Nicholson Center from 2013 until her death in 2016. To honor her memory and to continue her work, the Nicholson Center established a series of annual lectures.
"Gandhi and Late Victorian Radicalism," Professor Karuna Mantena, November 16th at 4pm
Karuna Mantena specializes in political theory with research interests in the theory and history of empire, South Asian intellectual history, and postcolonial democracy. Karuna holds a B.Sc.(Economics) in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1995), an M.A. in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex (1996), and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University (2004). Her first book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism (2010), analyzed the transformation of nineteenth-century British imperial ideology. She is currently finishing on a book on M. K. Gandhi and the politics of nonviolence, tentatively titled Gandhi’s Realism: Means and Ends in Politics. She is also co-director of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought.
Alison Winter Lecture Series Events
Simon Schaffner, “Time Machines and Memory Devices: Powers of Mind and Modern Histories” — 2016-17 Alison Winter Lecture
2016-17 Alison Winter Lecture Simon Schaffner (Professor of History of Science, University of Cambridge) “Time Machines and Memory Devices: Powers of Mind and Modern Histories”