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HUMANITAS VISITING PROFESSORSHIP PROGRAMME 2010­11


Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media: Mathias Döpfner (CEO Axel Springer) Freedom and the Digital Revolution Lecture 1: The Freedom Trap Lecture 2: The Internet – A Liberating or Enslaving Machine? Lecture 3: Can Journalism be Free in the Digital Age? Symposium: The Digital Revolution and its Futures made possible by the generous support of the Blavatnik Family Foundation.


war studies were discussed and brought into historical perspective. The lectures covered the textual history of   especially compelling in its reach and analytic passion, with its comments on ‘securitisation’ and the increasing privatisation and out­sourcing of war.


The symposium’s two excellent and wide­ranging speakers each brought their unique perspectives to bear, creating further opportunity for discussion between Hew Strachan


Humanitas Visiting Professor in War Studies: Hew Strachan (Chichele Professor of the History of War, Oxford) The Nature of War Lecture 1: How is War directed? The Problem of Strategy  Lecture 3: How does War end? The Problem of Victory (and Defeat) Symposium: Modern War


The Question of History and the Question of the State made possible by the generous support of Sir Ronald Grierson.


 War Studies, is a lecturer in regular dialogue with current military and strategic policy. His three lectures were remarkable not only for holding their audience, but for their  


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and the audience. Since then, a number of groups have approached CRASSH about the possibility of doing more on War Studies in light of the lectures this year and next (which promise to take the representation of war into  Professor in War providing a catalyst for research would be very exciting for faculty and students at Cambridge, where there is as yet nothing to compare to Oxford’s programme on ‘The Changing Character of War’ (headed by Professor Hew Strachan). As the audience showed, many people are  provide a new rallying­point for their cross­disciplinary work.


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Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women’s Rights: Nancy Fraser


(Henry A and Louise Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics, The New School for Social Research, New York) Women’s Rights in the 21st Century


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