VIDEO: Goldstein Speaks at WWI Poster Exhibit
Erik Goldstein, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and former Chair of the Department of International Relations, delivered the keynote speech at the opening of a major exhibition on the First World War at the Howard Gotlieb Memorial Gallery.
The exhibition, “Ardent for Some Desperate Glory: Remembering the First World War in A Major Exhibition of Posters and Manuscripts,” contains rare posters and manuscript material depicting the upheaval in the world during the Great War, and the fortitude and sacrifice of those who fought it.
You can view Goldstein’s remarks, which have been made into a video on the Gotlieb Memorial Gallery website, here.
Instituted in 1963 as Special Collections and renamed in 2003 to honor its founder, the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center is the repository for individuals in the fields of literature, criticism, journalism, drama, music, film, civil rights, diplomacy and national affairs. Although contemporary public figures is the specialty of the Center, there are substantial holdings of earlier historical documents and over 140,000 rare books.
Goldstein is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (of Britain) and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, having previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy at the University of Leicester (UK). In 2010 he was elected to the Governing Board of the International Baccalaureate. He was previously Professor of International History and Deputy Director for the Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy at the University of Birmingham (UK) and has held appointments as Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow at the Naval War College, as Visiting Scholar at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and as Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia. He has also served as the President of Phi Beta Kappa, Epsilon of Massachusetts.