Lecture 1

1.Topic: Philanthropy in the Modern World

2.Honorable Speaker: Professor Sir David Cannadine, Dodge Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University

Professor Sir David Cannadine is a renowned historian specializing in the economic, social, political, and cultural history of modern Britain and its empire, alongside capitalism, collecting, and philanthropy during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Sir David is the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. In 2017, he became the president of the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. His extensive leadership roles also include serving as the chairman of the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and vice-chair of the editorial board of Past & Present.

He has received numerous academic distinctions and honours. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1999 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2005. In 2008, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his contributions to historical scholarship. He was later elected an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society.

Sir David’s publications have made major contributions to the study of modern Britain, the aristocracy, the monarchy, imperial history, and historical culture. His best-known works include The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990), Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (2001), and Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906 (2017), which have established him as one of the leading historians of modern Britain and the British Empire.

3. Date& Time: May 28th, 2026, 10:10 am to 12:00 p.m.    4. Venue: Chang Yeo Lan Hall, Hsu Shou-Chlien International Conference Center, HC310.

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Lecture 2

1.Topic: World History, War, and the Spread of Written Constitutions

2.Honorable Speaker: Professor Dame Linda Colley, the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University

Professor Dame Linda Colley is an award-winning historian and the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her teaching and research focus on British history, empire, nationalism, constitutionalism, and global history.

Professor Colley was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1999. She was subsequently awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 2005, and appointed a C.B.E. for her services to history in the 2009 New Year Honours List (U.K.).

Her renowned work Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (1992) won the Wolfson History Prize and established her as a leading expert on nationalism. Her other major publications include Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600–1850 (2002), and The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (2007); the latter uses the turbulent, globe-trotting life of an ordinary 18th-century woman to illuminate vast global histories of empire, naval warfare, international trade, and slavery. Professor Colley’s latest book, The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: War, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World, was published in 2021.

3. Date& Time: May 28th, 2026, 2:10 to 4:00 p.m

4. Venue: Chang Yeo Lan Hall, Hsu Shou-Chlien International Conference Center, HC310.

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Registration：

 1.The event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.    

  2.Registration: From now until 17:00 on May 26th, 2026   

     registration system:   https://enroll.tku.edu.tw/course.aspx?cid=tahx1150528

  3.Contact info: Staff of Department of History – Miss Yang (Extension:2327)

4.This activity is linked to SDGs: SDG4 Quality Education.