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Second Annual Keith Nelson Lecture featuring Odd Arne Westad, Harvard University "Worlds Apart: The Cold War in the Twentieth Century"

The Department of History presents the Second Annual Keith L. Nelson Lecture featuring

Odd Arne Westad
S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government

"Worlds Apart: The Cold War in the Twentieth Century"

About the Speaker:
Arne Westad is the ST Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at HKS.  Among his books are The Global Cold War, which won the Bancroft Prize, and Decisive Encounters, a history of the Chinese civil war.  He also co-edited the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War.  His most recent books are Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750, which won the Bernhard Schwartz Award from the Asia Society, and the sixth edition of the Penguin History of the World.

For additional information, please contact the UCI Department of History at 949-824-6521.