LECTURES 2011-2012

Saturday 8 October 2011
The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
The Rise and Fall of Royal Alexandria: From Mohammed Ali to Farouk
(at the fourth Courts and Capitals conference organised by the Society for Court Studies and the Victorian Society)

Thursday 20 October 2011
University of Mersin, Turkey
Levantine Cities: The Past for the Future
(introductory lecture at a three-day conference on ‘Mediterranean Cities: Antiquity as Future?’)

10 November 2011, 6.30 pm
Bridport, Dorset
In Conversation with Professor Norman Stone
(at the Bridport Open Book Festival)

18 November, 2011
Uppsala University, Sweden
The Perils of Antiquity: Smyrna, Alexandria and Phoenicia
(as part of a conference on ‘Antiquity and its Legacy’)

8 February 2012, 11.00 am
Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Dress and Power, from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II

19 February 2012, 2.00 pm
King’s Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
In conversation with David Abulafia about Interactions between Islam, Judaism and Christianity in the Mediterranean
(as part of Jewish Book Week)

25 May 2012
Turin, Venaria Reale
Royal Hunts in an Age of Revolutions: From Louis XVI to Napoleon III
(at the conference ‘Royal Hunts and Early Modern Courts’, co-organised by the Court Studies Forum and the Centro studi of the Venaria)

4 October 2012
1 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DJ
Friend or Foe? The Ottoman Empire and Europe, from Mehmed the Conqueror to Ataturk
(www.thecoursestudies.co.uk)

1 November 2012
1 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DJ
Grand Tourists in the East: From Liotard to Disraeli
(www.thecoursestudies.co.uk)

29 November 2012
1 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DJ
Splendours and Catastrophes of the French Monarchy: From Louis XV to Napoleon III
(www.thecoursestudies.co.uk)

PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

In recent years Philip Mansel has spoken at Sotheby’s (London), Christie’s (Paris), the British School in Athens, Aleppo University, the French Cultural Centre (Beirut), the American Research Institute (Istanbul), Peterhouse (Cambridge), the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Geographical Society, the Irish Georgian Society, the Byron Society, the Newberry Library (Chicago), Loyola University (Chicago), the English Speaking Union (Chicago), the University of Massachusetts (Boston), Winchester College, Eton College, Kuwait University, the American University of Beirut Museum, the Austrian Cultural Forum (London), the Society for Court Studies (London), the British Institute of Florence, the Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting (Toronto) [keynote speech], Radio 3 Night Waves, the Dutch Archaeological Institute (Cairo), the Franco-British Society, Dorset Gardens Trust, the Turkish Area Study Group, Royal Collection Studies (Windsor), the Pera Museum (Istanbul), Koc University (Istanbul), the Bridport Literary Festival, the German Historical Institute (London), Newcastle University, the French Porcelain Society, the Association de la Noblesse du Royaume de Belgique (Brussels), Exeter University, and the Chateau de Versailles.

YOUR ORGANISATION

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