The Global Lincoln
Oxford University was the site of a global conference discussing Lincoln’s international significance and appeal. Scholars from around the world gathered at St. Catherine’s College on July 3–5, 2009. The conference, titled Global Lincoln: An International Conference, focused on four subjects:
- Lincoln, the United States and the World
- Lincoln the Emancipator and Liberator
- Lincoln the Nationalist Unifier and Modernizer
- Lincoln the Progressive and Democrat
Professor Richard Carwardine moderated the conference.
Read more about this topic: Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Famous quotes containing the words global and/or lincoln:
“The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a “global village” instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle’s present vulgarity.”
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)
“Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union for a peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)