Eighteenth-Century Seminar - “Beethoven Imagines India, 1812-1818”

Date
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Audience
Public

Speaker

Details

Event Description

“Beethoven Imagines India, 1812-1818”
Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois


This seminar is open to the public. There is no pre-circulated paper for this workshop.


Harry Liebersohn is Center for Advanced Study Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  His research centers on cultural encounters between European and non-European peoples since the late eighteenth century.  His most recent books are The Travelers’ World: Europe to the Pacific (Harvard University Press, 2008); and The Return of the Gift: European History of a Global Idea (Cambridge University Press, 2011).  Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age will be published by The University of Chicago Press in August 2019.  In spring 2017 he was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and in the same year he received a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.  In fall 2018 he gave the Zhu Kezhen Distinguished Lectures at Zheziang University, China.

Contact
Jennifer Loessy
Area of Interest
Global
Field(s)
Period
17th & 18th Centuries
Region
Asia
Europe
Scholarly Series
Eighteenth Century Seminar