{"id":46333,"date":"2020-12-11T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T15:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=46333"},"modified":"2021-02-03T15:07:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:07:34","slug":"lukes-and-sarkar-participate-in-glodec-initiative-book-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2020\/12\/11\/lukes-and-sarkar-participate-in-glodec-initiative-book-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukes and Sarkar Participate in GloDec Initiative Book Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/08\/Globe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/08\/Globe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/08\/Globe.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/08\/Globe-533x300.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/08\/Globe-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2020\/08\/Globe-992x558.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On December 9, 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/igor-lukes\/\">Igor Lukes<\/a>, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jayita-sarkar\/\">Jayita Sarkar<\/a>, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, participated in a book talk with author Lorenz L\u00fcthi, associate professor of history at McGill University, to discuss his book, <em>Cold Wars: Asia, The Middle East, Europe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, Lukes discussed the implications of <em>Cold Wars <\/em>for the historiography of Cold War East Central Europe while Sarkar broached its significance for understanding the global Cold War in South Asia. The discussant on the Middle East was Dr. Victor McFarland, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>A recording of the book talk can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Decolonization@60 Book Talk #2. &quot;Cold Wars&quot; by Lorenz L\u00fcthi (Cambridge UP, 2020)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xNCnSbCbW4I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The talk was organized by the Pardee School&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/research\/global-decolonization-initiative\/\">Global Decolonization Initiative<\/a> (GloDec Initiative). The event, \u201cDecolonization Book Talk #2,\u201d was part of the Decolonization@60 series, hosted on the 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514, formally called, \u201cDeclaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Lorenz L\u00fcthi joined Pardee School professors to discuss his book  <i>Cold Wars: Asia, The Middle East, Europe<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":44442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8411,8434],"tags":[11480,9443,9684,11700,1169,9998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46333\/revisions\/47151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}