Professor Westad will make a brief presentation and then lead a discussion of some of his recent scholarship.  Workshop attendees are encouraged to read in advance Professor Westad's essay, "The Great Transformation: China in the Long 1970s," which he contributed to Niall Ferguson et al., eds. The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, along with Niall Ferguson's introduction to that volume.  Attendees wishing to acquire the texts of these essays should write to Salim Yaqub at syaqub@history.ucsb.edu.

Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an expert on the history of the Cold War era and on contemporary international affairs.  He co-directs LSE IDEAS, a center for international affairs, diplomacy, and strategy, is an editor of the journal Cold  War History, and is a general editor of the forthcoming three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War. Professor Westad lectures widely on China's foreign affairs, on Western interventions in Africa and Asia, and on foreign policy. Professor Westad's most recent book, The Global Cold War: Third world Interventions and the Making of Our Times,  received the Bancroft Prize, the Michael Harrington Award, and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award.  It has been translated into fourteen languages.  He is now working on a history of Chinese foreign affairs since 1750.