Peter Burke on the Origins of Culture and Cultural History | Caucus Clips

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Caucus: The Discussion Forum was pleased to host Prof Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge, to share his insights and reflections on the topic "Understanding Culture".
Prof Burke is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Academia Europea. In 1998, he was awarded the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Lund, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Zurich, Brussels and Oviedo. He is an Honorary Professor of the National University of Colombia and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College Oxford. Prof Burke has published hundreds of articles and chapters and 30 books.
His works have been translated into 33 languages. Prof Peter Burke started off as a Cultural Historian of Early Modern Europe, and over the course of his long and prolific career, has authored several works on cultural theory, social theory, and the social history of knowledge - and most recently, a book on the social history of ignorance.
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Lovely session!