The Retired Men’s Association of Greenwich’s featured speaker for Jan 17 is Professor Odd Arne Westad, PhD., a scholar of modern international global history of Eastern Asia since the 18th Century.
On Wednesday, Jan 17 at 11:00am he will address the Histories of Asian Imperialism and Today’s China, focusing on how China’s international reforms came into being and how their results have changed the global economy.
Early in his career he focused on the Cold War, China- Russian Relations, the history of the Chinese Civil War and the Chinese Communist Party publishing works on China’s International History since 1750 and The Cold War: A World History.
Professor Westad has published 16 books on these subjects. Westad joined the Yale faculty in 2019 as the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs where he teaches at the Yale History Department and the Jackson School of Global Affairs.
Previously, he taught at Harvard University, where he was the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asian Relations and earlier at the London School of Economics(LSE), where he was School Professor of International History.
At Yale he is also an advisor at Davenport College and serves as Director of International Studies and the Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. Professor Westad is a Fellow of the British Academy and a visiting Professor at Peking University. Our next speaker, on January 24th, will be Jennifer Homans, PhD., Author of “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century”, a 2022 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association offers a free program every Wednesday that is open to the public, both men and women. No reservations are required. The RMA social break starts at 10:40 am followed promptly by the presentation at 11:00 am. Programs are at the First Presbyterian Church, 1 West Putnam Ave in Greenwich.
The program will also be shown on ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3GCS96i