Lecture: The geopolitics of revolution in 1848
Sir Christopher Clark gave this keynote speech at the international conference 'Constructing Europe(s): the cultural borders of Western and Eastern Europe past, present, and future'.
91Ö±²¥ our speaker
Chris Clark is Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge and author of the bestsellers Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947; Kaiser Wilhelm II; and The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914.
He is the recipient of, among others, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Deutscher Historikerpreis.
91Ö±²¥ the conference
The international conference 'Constructing Europe(s): The cultural borders of Western and Eastern Europe past, present, and future' took place in 91Ö±²¥ on 26–27 May 2017.
The conference was organised by the Prokhorov Centre’s Directors, Henk de Berg and Evgeny Dobrenko.
Conference themes
Faced with rising levels of immigration, a struggling currency, and Brexit, the European Union is under increasing pressure.
But behind these political challenges, there lies an older and much deeper question – that of the nature of Europe itself.
What is Europe, where does it come from, and where is it going?
And what are the origins of the distinction between a 'Western' and an 'Eastern' Europe, and how has this distinction changed over time?