Goldstein Speaks at Conferences on 100th Anniversary of WWI Peace Conference
Erik Goldstein, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently spoke at two major international conferences held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the peace conference after World War I.
Goldstein’s first talk, on ‘The Origins of World Heritage and the 1919 Paris Peace Conference,” was at a symposium on ‘The Paris Peace Conference: The Challenge of a New World Order’ organized by the German Historical Institute, Paris, with sessions also held at the Quai d’Orsay (French Foreign Ministry) and Château de Versailles, on June 8-10, 2019.
The second paper was focused on British policy and the concept of what is now usually termed World Heritage, and was delivered at a June 27-28, 2019 conference on ‘Peace Making after the First World War’ organized by Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historians and the National Archives, London.
Erik Goldstein is the author of numerous works on the peace settlement, including two books, Winning the Peace: British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1916-1920 and The First World Wars Peace Settlements: International Relations, 1918-25. His research interests include diplomacy, formulation of national diplomatic strategies, the origins and resolution of armed conflict, and negotiation. He has published in numerous journals, including Review of International Relations, Middle Eastern Studies, East European Quarterly, Historical Research, Historical Journal, Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, and the Hague Journal of Diplomacy.