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Hume Lecture will focus on historic and modern China
The 45th annual Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture will be given by Kenneth Pomeranz, the Chancellor's Professor of History and professor of East Asian languages and literatures at the University of California, Irvine, on Thursday, Feb. 17.
"Contesting the High Ground: Mt. Tai and its Goddess in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Society" is the title of his talk, which will begin at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, the talk is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception in the second floor common room.
Pomeranz, who is former chair of the history department, is currently the director of the University of California Multi-Campus Research Group in World History.
His publications include "The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy," which won the American Historical Association's Fairbank Prize and the World History Association Book Prize, and "The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937," which also won the Fairbank Prize. He was the co-author of "The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present."
Pomeranz, who focuses his work on Chinese and comparative economic development, rural social change, environmental change and state formation, has also written on the history of popular religion and of family organization and gender roles.
His honors include Guggenheim and ACLS fellowships and distinguished lectureships at a number of universities in the United States, Europe and East Asia.
Donald E. Graham, chair of the board and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Washington Post Company and chair of The Washington Post, will give the next Gordon Grand Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 17.
Graham will discuss "A Slightly Different Way to Run a Public Company," at 4:30 p.m. in the common room, Branford College, 74 High St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be preceded by tea at 4 p.m.
Graham became CEO of The Washington Post Company in 1991 and chair of the board in 1993. He served as publisher of The Post 1979-2000.
Graham's father served as publisher and president of The Washington Post and his grandfather, Eugene Meyer, purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933.
In 1966 Graham was drafted and served as an information specialist with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. He was a patrolman with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department from 1969 to 1970. In 1971 Graham joined The Washington Post newspaper as a reporter and subsequently held several news and business positions at the newspaper and at Newsweek. He was named executive vice president and general manager of the newspaper in 1976. Graham was elected director of The Washington Post Company in 1974 and served as president 1991-1993.
Graham serves as a director of BrassRing Inc., and as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. In addition, he is president of the District of Columbia College Access Program.
Michael Anderson of The Book Review of The New York Times will be the guest at a master's tea on Thursday, Feb. 17.
Anderson will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the master's house, Calhoun College, 434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Anderson, who joined The Book Review in 1988, selects books for review, solicits reviewers, edits reviews and aids in production.
Among the writers he has worked with are John Updike, Edna O'Brien, John LeCarré and John Irving.
Previously in his career, Anderson was an education writer, financial writer and a financial news editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. He then joined the graduate division of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University as an assistant professor. Anderson worked for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, where his second assignment was coverage of the story of the mass murder at a San Diego McDonald's restaurant. He then moved to The Los Angeles Times, where he worked on the electronic publishing prototype, financial copy desk, suburban copy desk and as a suburban sports news editor.
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