October 12, 2009
The University of Hartford will present this year’s Hertford College Lecture,
“The Soldier’s Tale: Folklore and the Experience of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,” on
Monday, Oct. 12, at 4:30 p.m. David Hopkin, fellow and lecturer in modern European history at Hertford College, University of Oxford, will speak in
Wilde Auditorium, located in the
Harry Jack Gray Center, at the
University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For tickets, contact the University of Hartford box office at 860.768.4228 or 1.800.274.8587.
Hopkin has been a fellow and lecturer at Hertford College since 2005. He previously taught at the universities of Glasgow and Warwick in the United Kingdom. His first book, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, won the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize in 2002.
With expertise in French history, European social and cultural history, the history of maritime and military institutions, and folklore, Hopkin wrote the historical introduction to the catalogue for Impressionists by the Sea, a 2008 exhibition mounted by Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Hopkin’s journal articles have appeared in French Historical Studies, Social History, Modern and Contemporary France, and European History Quarterly. Hopkin guest-edited the Folklore Society’s journal, Folklore, and he is currently editor of the journal Culture and Social History.
The University of Hartford has had a cooperative relationship with Oxford University’s Hertford College for more than 20 years. Among the elements of this partnership are an annual lecture by a Hertford College scholar and a scholarship program for University of Hartford students to study at the college.
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