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SUMMARY:On the Disappointment of Revolutions - Professor Sir Simon Schama\
 , Columbia University
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Do revolutions matter? Do they sharply change the course of hi
 story or are they programmed for disappointment\, or much worse outcomes? 
 Are they mostly a state of mind pumped up with utopian rhetoric or do they
  profoundly\nalter the structures they claim to demolish and replace? Are 
 they the necessary engines of progress or a deadweight on its advance? And
  does the revolutionary temper have anything to say to the existential pro
 blems of our\nown time - environmental\, biological\, demographic and digi
 tal? Or should revolutions and their histories be laid to rest in the muse
 um of exhausted illusions?\n\nSir Simon Schama is University Professor of 
 Art History and History at Columbia University. He is a contributing edito
 r of the Financial Times\, author of twenty books\, and writer-presenter o
 f over fifty documentaries on art\, history and literature for BBC televis
 ion. Most recently his History of Now series aired on BBC2 in 2022. Sir Si
 mon has been awarded numerous prizes and honours including the NCR prize f
 or non-fiction for Citizens. A Chronicle of the French Revolution\, the W.
 H. Smith Literary Award for Landscape and Memory\, and the National Book C
 ritics Circle prize for non-fiction for Rough Crossings. Britain\, the Sla
 ves and the American Revolution. His work has been translated into twenty 
 three languages\, and his 20th\, and most recent book Foreign Bodies: Pand
 emics\, Vaccines and the Health of Nations\, was published in the UK in Ma
 y 2023.
LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall\, Sidgwick Avenue
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