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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World : A lecture by Professor Maya Jasanoff
November 14, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Please join us as the National Churchill Library and Center welcomes Maya Jasanoff for a lecture and discussion about her new book, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. This event is cosponsored by the History and English departments.
Maya Jasanoff is professor of history at Harvard University. She won both the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and 2012 George Washington Book Prize for her most recent monograph, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. Her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture,…
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