[cr-india] Reith Lectures 2007 on BBC Radio

[Vinod Pavarala]

Jonathan Spence is giving this year's Reith Lectures on BBC radio. For
those of you who cannot listen to the broadcasts, there is  the usual range
of Listen Again and podcast options via the web.

Full information is available here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2008/

Professor Jonathan Spence is one of the world's leading authorities on
Chinese history.

Professor Spence was named a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St
George and in 2006 a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.

He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences<http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio4/reith2008/aboutlecturer.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://www.amacad.org/>in
1985 and was named a MacArthur
Fellow<http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio4/reith2008/aboutlecturer.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.959463/>in
1988, the same year he was appointed to the Council of Scholars at the
Library
of Congress<http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio4/reith2008/aboutlecturer.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://www.loc.gov/index.html>.
In 1993 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical
Society<http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio4/reith2008/aboutlecturer.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://www.amphilsoc.org/>and
in 1997 was named a corresponding fellow of the British
Academy<http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio4/reith2008/aboutlecturer.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://www.britac.ac.uk/>.


His books include *The Death of Woman Wang* (1978); *The Memory Palace of
Matteo Ricci* (1984); *The Question of Hu* (1987); *Chinese Roundabout:
Essays on History and Culture*; *The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and
Their Revolution 1895-1980*; *The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western
Minds; and God's Chinese Son* (1994).

-- 
Prof. Vinod Pavarala
Head, Department of Communication & Dean
Sarojini Naidu School of Performing Arts, Fine Arts & Communication
University of Hyderabad
Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046
Phone: +91-40-23135500/23011553 (off); 94407-24914 (m)
http://172.16.1.100/academic/school_study/sarojini_naidu_school/program_communication.html
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