Historical Studies

Klaus Larres, current Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of Historical Studies, joins a panel discussion hosted by The Heat, a CCTV-America program on political issues, to discuss the China-Germany trade relationship...

W. Anthony Sheppard, Member in the School of Historical Studies (2011–12), has received the H. Colin Slim Award for his article “Puccini and the Music Boxes,” which appeared in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association in spring 2015.

Based upon...

Klaus Larres, Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of Historical Studies, discusses how a visit to China by Germany’s economics minister highlighted a blunter approach to bilateral relations.

The prolonged honeymoon...

Bill Browder, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hermitage Capital Management, will give a public lecture, “Lawless Economy? Putin’s Russia and the Imperfect Market,” on Friday, December 2, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall o...

Benjamin Elman, Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University, will deliver a public lecture, “Philologists as Rogues? The Life of a Confucian Classic Recovered in Early Modern Japan and Its Transmission Back to Imperial China,”...

The Association for Slavic Studies, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies, have honored Michael Kunichika, Member (2015–16) in the School of Historical Studies, with the...

Glen Bowersock weighs in on the 2016 Election with a reflection on Cleon, the Donald Trump of fifth century B.C. Athens. Cleon’s fiery rhetoric made him exceptionally persuasive to the people, Bowersock writes:

Cleon's wealth, bluster, ignorance, and...

Klaus Larres, Member in the School of Historical Studies, describes how Barack Obama’s eight-year presidency did not succeed in making the world more stable and less dangerous.

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Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, will a give a public lecture, “Contesting American Values: The Bumpy Rise of Democracy in the West (1776-1850),” on Friday, October 28...

On Friday, October 14, the Institute for Advanced Study will host a pair of public lectures—one on the history of night in the Greek world and the other on memory projects about World War II and the Cold War. Kristen Ghodsee, Professor and Director...