Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 30, 2001

Volume 29, Number 24

'Yale, America and the World'

World-renowned scholars in international history will survey the changes that have taken place in the relations between the United States and the rest of the world since Yale's founding in 1701 in a series of five public lectures on the theme "Yale, America and the World."

Presented by International Security Studies, part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the lectures complement the University's Tercentennial theme of "American Democracy" and are part of the Tercentennial celebration. The series also complements the work of Gaddis Smith, the Larned Professor of History Emeritus, who is writing a history of Yale and the external world in the 20th century. The lectures will place the Yale perspective in the wider context of U.S. contacts with and influence on the world.

All of the lecturers have ties to Yale. Their talks will consider the centennial points of 1701, 1801, 1901 and 2001. A final lecture on 2101 will offer a look at the future of Yale and America and their places in the world.

The first lecture, on 1701, will be given by John Demos, the Samuel Knight Professor of History, on Wednesday, April 4, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. Seating is limited to the first 200 who arrive. A public reception will follow the lecture.

Demos is widely acknowledged as a leading expert on family and social life in early New England and is also noted for his narrative histories dealing with those subjects. He won the Bancroft Prize in 1983 for "Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England." His most recent work, "The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America," was critically acclaimed for its portrait of Eunice Williams, who was kidnapped in 1704 by Mohawk Indians from her village home in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and chose to spend the rest of her life with her captors.

The second lecture, on 1801, will be delivered on Wednesday, April 11, by Linda Colley, the former Colgate Professor of History at Yale and now Leverhulme Research Professor in History at the London School of Economics. It will take place at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Yale Center for British Art and will also be followed by a public reception.

Colley achieved international recognition for her ground-breaking work "Britons: Forging the Nation, 1701-1837." She is now completing a book-length study of encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples on the colonial frontier.

The third lecture, focusing on 1901, will be delivered by Paul Kennedy, the Dilworth Professor of History, in association with New Haven's International Festival of Arts and Ideas on June 14. The final two lectures, on 2001 and 2101, will be delivered, respectively, by Gaddis Smith and Robin Winks, the Townsend Professor of History. The lectures will form part of the climactic October 2001 Tercentennial weekend. Watch the Yale Bulletin & Calendar for further information on these events.

The series is sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund and is supported by the Department of History and the Yale Center for British Art.

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