[Uwhistory] Katz lecture this Thursday: Geoffrey Parker on "Climate and Catastrophe" (fwd)

[Lori Anthony]

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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:05:43 -0700
From: UW Simpson Center <uwch at u.washington.edu>
To: simpsonevents at u.washington.edu
Subject: Katz lecture this Thursday: Geoffrey Parker on
     "Climate and Catastrophe"


The Simpson Center for the Humanities and the College of Arts & Sciences 
at the University of Washington present a Solomon Katz Distinguished 
Lecture in the Humanities by

Geoffrey Parker
"Climate and Catastrophe: The World Crisis of the 17th Century"

Thursday, April 19, 2007
7:00 pm
Kane Hall Room 110
Reception to follow

Geoffrey Parker, Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at Ohio State 
University, is a renowned scholar of early modern European social, 
political, and military history. A Fellow of the British Academy (the 
highest honor bestowed on a scholar of the humanities in Great Britain), 
he is the author of many books, including The Military Revolution: 
Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 (1988) and The 
Grand Strategy of Philip II (1998). In 1992 the King of Spain named him 
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic for his 
contributions to Spanish history. Parker has also received two Guggenheim 
Fellowships to support research on his forthcoming book, Climate and 
Catastrophe: The World Crisis of the 17th Century (Oxford 2007).

Climate and Catastrophe will bring new global and environmental 
perspectives to bear on the history of early modern Europe. Parker 
analyses the historical records and traces the ways in which dramatic 
climate changes of the 1640s precipitated a cascading series of violent 
social, economic, and political crises around the globe—from China to 
Europe to the New World colonies. Acutely relevant to current concerns 
about the human, economic, and political consequences of global warming, 
Parker's research brings historical perspective to bear on current 
discussions and debates about environmental policies, international 
politics, and globalization. In his Katz Lecture, Parker will recount this 
history and probe its meaning for the present.

Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Seating is on a 
first-come, first-served basis.

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Questions? Please call (206) 543-3920.

Simpson Center for the Humanities
College of Arts & Sciences
University of Washington
206 Communications Building / Box 353710
Seattle, WA 98195-3710
tel (206) 543-3920
fax (206) 685-4080
www.simpsoncenter.org