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Templeton Public Lecture on April 26th: Professor Jonathan D. Spence, “The Great Might-Have-Been: Britain and China in the Late 17th Century.”

Apr 26, 2012

SNU Science Culture Research Center is holding its first Templeton Public Lecture as following. The guest lecturer is the esteemed Professor Jonathan D. Spence of Yale University. We await participation of all those who are interested.


▶Title: The Great Might-Have-Been: Britain and China in the Late Seventeenth Century
▶Lecturer: Professor Jonathan D. Spence (Yale University)
▶Date and Time: Thursday, April 26th, 2012. 3:00 p.m. ~ 5:00 p.m.
▶Venue: Auditorium, Building 73 (Munhwagwan)


※ A simultaneous interpretation of the lecture will be provided.
Details about the contents of the lecture can be checked at:
http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/jonathan-spence-lecture


※ About the lecturer
• Career
1993 – Present: Sterling Professor of History Emeritus
2010: Jefferson Lecture
1976: George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University
1966: Assistant Professor, Yale University
1965: Yale University, M.A., Ph. D
1959: Clare College at the University of Cambridge, B.A.


• Prizes
1983: Vursel Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1982: Los Angeles Times History Prize
1979: Guggenheim Fellowship
1978: William C. DeVane Medal of the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
1966: John Addison Porter Prize


• Works
The Search for Modern China
Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-hsi
The Death of Woman Wang
God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
and many more


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