Currents--University of Rochester

November 8
1999

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History seminar probes cultural survival

B enedict Anderson will be the first guest speaker for the Verne Moore History Seminars on Wednesday, November 10, at 4:45 p.m. in 321 Morey Hall. His talk--which is sponsored by the Department of History, and is free and open to the public--is titled "Cultural Survival in Our Time: High Stakes Gamble."

Anderson, the A.L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, is the author of the influential book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. According to Anderson, a nation "is an imagined political community--because the members of even the smallest nations will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives an image of their community."

The Verne Moore History Seminars is an annual series of lectures that has been funded by a gift from University alumnus Verne Moore '50 since 1996.

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