Events

The World Reimagined: Americans and human rights

Tuesday 28 February 2017 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Hosted by the LSE IDEAS

Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building,

Speaker

Professor Mark Bradley

Chair

Professor Michael Cox

How did the idea of 'human rights' develop in the twentieth century? In this lecture, Mark Bradley explores how changes in US culture and thought from the 1940-70s changed the American idea of what it means to be free, leading to the modern concept of 'universal human rights'.

This event is part of the Rethinking the Cold War Lecture Series, a collaboration between the Cold War Studies Project at LSE IDEAS and the Cultures of the Cold War network at the University of Sheffield, two leading centres in the UK for the study of the Cold War.

Mark Bradley is Bernadotte E Schmitt Professor of International History, University of Chicago.

Michael Cox is Director of LSE IDEAS and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at LSE.

LSE IDEAS (@LSEIDEAS) is a foreign policy think-tank within LSE's Institute for Global Affairs.

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