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Cambridge in America Day 2012 - New York City

Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00pm - 7:00pm

The Eventi Hotel
851 6th Avenue (at 30th Street)
New York, NY 10001

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”
-- Winston Churchill, from his first speech to the House of Commons as Prime Minister, 13 May 1940

The power of words and the qualities of leadership, what are they? Or should we ask where have they gone?

Please join us for Cambridge in America Day, New York - a thought provoking program focusing on Winston Churchill, the power of oratory and qualities of leadership. This is an opportunity to hear directly from leading academics and alumni, a chance to reconnect with old and new friends alike over drinks and lively conversation. Following the speakers alumni will have the opportunity to mingle and reconnect at a drinks reception

Date:
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Time:
2:00 pm - 7:00 pm

$25/Alumni and guests or $15/Cambridge10 (matriculation between 2002-2012)

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SPEAKER BIOS

			Dr. Andrew Roberts (Gonville & Caius) Dr. Roberts took a first class honors degree in Modern History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he is an honorary senior scholar and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D). Roberts holds an honorary doctorate from Westminster College, Missouri. He has written or edited twelve books, including Masters and Commanders, which was published in 2008, won the Emery Reves Award of the International Churchill Society and was shortlisted for The Duke of Westminster’s Gold Medal for Military History and The British Army Military Book Award. The Storm of War was published in August 2009 and reached No. 2 on The Sunday Times bestseller list, and won the British Army Military Book Award for 2010. As well as appearing regularly on British and American television and radio, Roberts writes for The Sunday Telegraph and reviews history books and biography for that newspaper as well as The Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday, The Daily Beast and The Wall Street Journal.

			Allen Packwood Fellow of Churchill College and the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre Mr. Packwood is a qualified archivist and has worked at the Centre since September 1995, succeeding Dr Piers Brendon as Acting Keeper in 2001, before being appointed Director in 2002. Allen was co-curator of “Churchill and the Great Republic”, a Library of Congress exhibition, which ran from February – July 2004, and has since organised many events and lectures, including the recent successful conference on “The Cold War and its Legacy”, staged over two days at Churchill College in November 2009, and attended by senior representatives from the Russian Federation and the United States. He is currently planning a small Churchill display at the Library of Parliament in Ottawa and a major Churchill exhibition at the Morgan Library in New York. Both will take place in 2012. Allen is the author of several articles, co-wrote the publication accompanying the Library of Congress display, edited the recent guide to the Churchill Archives Centre, and has lectured extensively on Churchill in the United Kingdom and the United States. Allen’s job has taken him to Bermuda, Cuba, Singapore Hong Kong and he recently accompanied Celia Sandys and Lady Soames on a Chasing Churchill Mediterranean Cruise. The Churchill Archives Centre is located in the grounds of Churchill College, and is home to the papers of Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Thatcher and almost six hundred of their contemporaries: politicians, diplomats, civil servants, military leaders and scientists of the Churchill era and beyond. It is still collecting. Allen now combines his leadership of the Archives Centre with his role as Executive Director of The Churchill Centre in the United Kingdom.


			Art work inspired by photograph by Yousuf Karsh

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