Mark Mazower is the Ira D. Wallach Professor History at Columbia University.  He is currently the director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University and his articles and reviews on history and current affairs appear regularly in the Financial Times, the Guardian, London Review of Books, The Nation and The New Republic.

The struggle for Greek independence in 1821 reverberated around the world and with effects continuing to be felt today - almost 200 years later. 

Mark Mazower examines what we can learn about our own attitudes to questions of state sovereignty, humanitarian intervention and politics itself from those long-ago events and the way they were understood at the time. 

This presentation is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact the Center for Advanced Study at 333-6729 or cas.illinois.edu 

Thanks to the Center for Advanced Study listserv for this information item.

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