The Lee Knowles Lectures 2024: Professor Dominic Lieven

Professor Dominic Lieven will give the Lee Knowles Lectures on the theme of 'War, empire and geopolitics: history’s lessons for the present?’ An Honorary Fellow of Trinity and former Distinguished Professor of International History at LSE, Professor Lieven specialises in the Russian Empire, Napoleonic Wars and First World War. His is author of award-winning books including Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia, which won the Pushkin House Prize 2015 and Russia Against Napoleon. The Battle For Europe 1808 to 1814, which won the Wolfson History Prize 2009. Professor Lieven said: ‘The lecture series sort of sums up all I have ever thought or written about war, geopolitics, empire and Russian history. Inevitably Russia looms large across all five lectures, even in unexpected places.’