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SUMMARY:Conquering Peace? How Can Three Centuries of Europe’s Past Help 
 its Future? - Stella Ghervas is Professor of Russian History at Newcastle 
 University and an Associate of the Department of History at Harvard Univer
 sity.
DTSTART:20191031T170000Z
DTEND:20191031T183000Z
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CONTACT:Ela Moussa
DESCRIPTION:It should be obvious by now that neither peace in Europe nor t
 he European Union’s mandate to unify the Old Continent are a given. Yet 
 no political entity since the Roman Empire has survived in Europe on such 
 a large scale and for so long as the EU. In view of the impending prospect
  of Brexit\, now is a good time to reconsider the overarching goal that su
 stained the European unification process so far and which might make or br
 eak it in the future: peace. Indeed\, where did the notion come from that 
 only a free-willed unification of the continent could bring peace? This pa
 per traces a genealogy of concerted attempts at peaceful pacification on t
 he European continent\, from the Peace of Utrecht (1713) to the League of 
 Nations\, and beyond\, to the European Communities. Spanning three centuri
 es\, it will survey a number of deep-rooted reasons why\, in the face of u
 ncertainties\, adversity and failures\, European states have kept trying t
 o achieve a peaceful unification of the continent\, and why this pursuit o
 f peace may likely be a never-ending process.\n\nStella Ghervas is Profess
 or of Russian History at Newcastle University and an Associate of the Depa
 rtment of History at Harvard University. Her main interests are in the int
 ellectual and international history of modern Europe\, with special refere
 nce to the history of peace and peace-making\, and in Russia’s intellect
 ual and maritime history. Among her publications are Réinventer la Tradti
 on: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance (2008)\, Lieux 
 d’Europe: Mythes et limites (co-ed.\, 2008)\, A Cultural History of Peac
 e in the Age of Enlightenment 1648-1815 (co-ed.\, 2019)\, and Conquering P
 eace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union (2020). She is currentl
 y working on a new book titled Calming the Waters? A New History of the Bl
 ack Sea 1774-1920s\, and on an anthology of essential texts on peace from 
 the Antiquity to the present day.
LOCATION:Bateman Auditorium\,  Caius College\, Cambridge
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