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Blood, Virtue and Ambition: The French Revolution as Seen Through Individual Lives Who Lived It
Blood, Virtue and Ambition: The French Revolution as Seen Through Individual Lives Who Lived It
Blood, Virtue and Ambition: The French Revolution as Seen Through Individual Lives Who Lived It
- Dates: Fridays, January 9, 16, 23 & 30
- Time: 10:30 - Noon ET
- This set of four lectures will examine the French Revolution through the lives of a broad range of its most prominent and/or revealing figures. These include Queen Marie Antoinette, Baron Turgot, high profile revolutionaries such as the Abbé Sieyès, Georges Danton, Jean-Paul Marat, the Marquis de Lafayette, Charlotte Corday, Olympe de Gouges, and Maximillian Robespierre, and many lesser known people whose lives showcase the revolution in all of its complexity, reforming zeal, brutality, and world-altering dynamism.
Borders, Cartels, and Conflict: The New American Imperatives in Latin America
Blood, Virtue and Ambition: The French Revolution as Seen Through Individual Lives Who Lived It
Blood, Virtue and Ambition: The French Revolution as Seen Through Individual Lives Who Lived It
- Dates: Thursdays, January 8, 15, 22 & 29
- Time: 10:30 - Noon ET
- In this time where the US has threatened Venezuela with war, this set of 4 lectures will examine America’s complex relationship with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Mexico, Honduras and Columbia among others. We will explore the US’s ever-changing “War on Drugs,” growing concerns about fentanyl, and how drug trafficking has transformed national and regional economies and communities. We will also examine America’s other interests in the region and how they have shaped the US’s policy decisions concerning oil, war, interdiction, arrests of heads of state and pardons for traffickers in recent years.