I will do my best to leave plenty of time for give and take around the table. Socialism is in the air right now but the book is a history. Im going to quickly set the history and spend some minutes on whats happening today and will have a backandforth or around the table. Socialism was climbed in the 1820s or 30s by the followers of a small group of anchors of british and french who were not out to overthrow government but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the idea that the way to get there was to demonstrate the validity of the ideas. They created data, followers created this through the mid 1800s, 40 to 50 experimental communities. Mostly in the u. S. Even those visionaries were europeans. Right in the u. S. . It was using to give land. The social were more fluid. Their ideas were taken tremendously seriously. Perhaps the most important was robert owen and he announced coming to the u. S. To create a community that would demonstrate his ideas and he was taken trem
We are going to be internationalizing this conflict, which we think is americas of mastic civil war. We are going to be speaking how does that some of the broader International Developments shaped the civil war and hopefully get a sense of what it is that is going on outside the rest of the world. His is not a new thing people have been writing diplomatic histories of the a sense for years after the conflict ended. Combination of the rethinking of what 19thcentury globalization is. And our current context in which americans are rethinking what it is to be part of a larger world in a postcold war era has generated a lot of rich scholarship in the last decade or so. War situates the u. S. Civil in a broader context. Have threeunate to young excellent scholars who are going to help guide us through this. We look forward to our questions at the end. Proud to acknowledge he is a High School Scholarship student some time ago. His research focuses on finance during the American Civil War and
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Tonights speaker. Marcelo gleiser is a theoretical physicist and a professor of natural philosophy, physics and astronomy at dartmouth college. His work ranges from cosmology and applications of information theory to complex phenomena to history and philosophy of science, how science and culture interact. He is a fellow of the american physical society, a recipient of the president ial faculty award from the white house and National Science foundation and, was awarded the 2019 templeton prize and has authored five books and is the cofounder of 13. 8, where he writes about science and culture with physicist adam frank. He is devoted to the understanding of science and his books have been published in 15 languages. A native of riyadh, janeiro, brazil, he lives in hanover, hampshire. Marcelo gleiser is presenting his new book, the dawn of a mindful universe, a manifesto for future since copernicus yes, humanity has increasingly seen itself as adrift in insignificant speck within a large c
My is e tammy kim and im a writer at the new yorker and the cohost the podcast. Time to say goodbye. Today i have the luck of talking to china mieville, a writer of uncommon breadth integrity and precision work ive admired for a long time. Many of you know china as the author of speculative fiction with beautiful novels such as perdita street station, the city and the city and real sea. You may also know his nonfiction, which ranges from scholarly work on International Law and stylish esthetics. Essays in the quarterly journal to the book oct from 2017, which tells the story of the russian revolution. Were here today to celebrate his latest nonfiction book, a specter haunting on the communist manifesto published by haymarket. A specter haunting part critical companion, part literary exegesis. The book proceeds in six chapters elegant, economical then reproduces the manifesto and its many prefaces over time and space. I confess that until reading this book, i had not looked at the commu