23rd Annual Gaston Sigur Memorial Lecture
Empire and Righteous Nation:
600 Years of China-Korea Relations
A Discussion with Dr. Odd Arne Westad
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
State Room, 7th Floor
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St., NW Washington, DC 20052
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies holds an annual memorial lecture to honor the legacy of the Center’s namesake – Gaston J. Sigur, Jr. The Gaston Sigur Memorial Lecture has featured many distinguished and high-level experts from various backgrounds and professions related to Asia.You are cordially invited to attend this year’s Annual Gaston Sigur Center Memorial Lecture with Dr. Arne Westad to discuss China-Korea historical relations.
This event is on the record and open to the media.
About the Speaker:

Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). While at LSE, he directed LSE IDEAS, a leading centre for international affairs, diplomacy and strategy.
Professor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. The book, which has been translated into fifteen languages, also won a number of other awards. Westad served as general editor for the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War, and is the author of the Penguin History of the World (now in its 6th edition). His most recent book, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013.
Professor Westad’s new book, The Cold War: A World History, will be published in 2017 by Basic Books in the United States and Penguin in the UK. A new history of the global conflict between capitalism and Communism since the late 19th century, it provides the larger context for how today’s international affairs came into being.