Location
Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's College London
Friday 13 September 2024 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King’s Building, Strand, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS
The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2024: Professor Erika Rappaport –
‘Public Relations as the Remedy’: Decolonization and the Branding of British Business in Postcolonial Ghana.
The Ben Pimlott Lecture is hosted by the journal Modern British History, Oxford University Press Journals and King’s Contemporary British History. This lecture series was established in 2006 in honour of the late Ben Pimlott and in association with the Institute of Contemporary British History, with which Ben had close ties. Each lecture is published in Modern British History and is available free online.
The lecture has previously been given by Roberta Bivins, Mathew Thomson, Mar Hicks, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Patricia Clavin, Susan Pederson, Deborah Cohen, David Kynaston, and Ross McKibbin.
This year’s lecture is given by Erika Rappaport. Professor Rappaport is a Professor of History at University of Santa Barbara, and is a European cultural historian, interested in the history of gender and consumer cultures in Modern Britain and its Empire. Her work examines how the history of consumption and commodities were integral to the construction of identities, politics, and economies in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is currently working on an imperial history of public relations. Her published work includes A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2017) and Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End (Princeton University Press, 2000).
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.
All Welcome
Free Admission
Register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kingscontemporarybritishhistory/1282532
LOCATION
Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King’s Building, Strand, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS
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