"Empire" and "Invitations": Geir Lundestad’s Impact on Cold War Scholarship in Perspective
Geir Lundestad has been the Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1990, retiring at the end of 2014 as director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Geir has made an enormous scholarly contribution to the field of history and supported many scholarly endeavors in the social sciences through the Nobel Institute fellowship and symposia program inaugurated under his leadership. Please join us for a symposium honoring Professor Geir Lundestad at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Overview
“Empire” and “Invitations”: Geir Lundestad’s Impact on Cold War Scholarship in Perspective
Symposium in Honor of
Professor Geir Lundestad
Former Director, Norwegian Nobel Institute
Friday, 13 March 2015
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Woodrow Wilson Center
5th Floor Conference Room
Geir Lundestad has been the Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1990, retiring at the end of 2014 as director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Geir has made an enormous scholarly contribution to the field of history and supported many scholarly endeavors in the social sciences through the Nobel Institute fellowship and symposia program inaugurated under his leadership.
Born in 1945 in Sulitjelma, a mining community in Northern Norway, Lundestand received his MA (Cand. philol.) in history from the University of Oslo in 1970 and a PhD from the University of Tromsø¸ in 1976. He held various positions at the University of Tromsø¸ from 1974-1990, including Associate Professor of History, Professor of American Civilization, and Professor of History. He has also been a research fellow at Harvard University (1978-79, 1983) and at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (1988-89). Concurrent to his position as Director of the Nobel Institute, Lundestad is also Adjunct Professor of International History at the University of Oslo. Lundestad is the author of numerous books and articles in English and Norwegian; covering a broad range of topics including Norwegian history, the European community, the Cold War, and American foreign policy. He is a frequent commentator on Norwegian television and radio.
Please join us for a symposium honoring Professor Geir Lundestad at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Speakers
Thomas Schwartz
Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Political Science and European Studies, Vanderbilt University
Melvyn P. Leffler
Professor Emeritus of American History at The University of Virginia
Jeremi Suri
Thomas Blanton
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