THE WORLDS OF JOSEPH CONRAD - The 2019 Cundill Lecture in History

In a lecture based on the book that won the 2018 Cundill History Prize, "The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World", Professor Maya Jasanoff (Harvard University) presents Conrad as a prophet of globalization. Jasanoff explores how Conrad was deeply influenced by the dawn of the twentieth century - the tensions of global capitalism, encroaching imperialism and unprecedented migration which still characterize our global world.
Delivered in Montreal, QC on Wednesday, November 13, 2019.

[@lohkoonhoong6957]

Joseph Conrad --- worthy of our undying regard.

[@gregskigreg6422]

I loved the lecture.The lady has such clear voice and a precise way of speaking.

[@marialightalphas9682]

Excellent talk.

[@Alex-ff8si]

Brilliant background information to anybody interested in Conrad.

[@gb99cat]

I loved Professor Jasanoff's book, &, as a result, I've gone back to read more Conrad. Great talk.

[@myimorata7678]

Bought Prof. Jasanoff's book yesterday, based on this lecture. Can't wait to read it.

[@a.meeeezy9576]

His work is beyond beautiful

[@petermorley3910]

Superb discourse on her superb book! All three of these accomplished women taking part in the lecture are to be commended for not only knowing what they're talking about, but doing so in an engaging manner. Thanks for posting this 76 or so minutes of KZbin at it's best.

[@timothymontes2049]

Two geniuses of fiction working at the same time: Conrad in the novel and Chekhov in the short story form. The late 19th century and early 20th was a golden age of fiction. The older I get as a reader the more I cherish this period of history. That pacing of story telling would be destroyed by modernism. Fantastic literature, by the way.

[@marknewton6984]

Victory is a wonderful novel by Conrad. Also, Hemingway was a great short story writer.

[@virginiamendez993]

An excellent lecture from Prof. Jasanoff. Congratulations!

[@TheWildphilosopher]

A great talk. Having read the book, "The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World", I can only say, that I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed this lecture. History doesn't get old. Fantastic. Thank you.

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[@Brian-ey7qs]

Great book thanks Maya Jasanoff

[@jaroslawpeter3586]

3/ The idea to become a sailor was not just a "romantic dream" of Conrad, but rather his child dream. But most direct, urgent reason was that he had to escape three Poland occupying empires to avoid military service in Russian imperial army. Formally he was the subject of Russian Czar and he would have to serve up to 25 years. Because he was the orphan, the son of the Polish nobility and patriots who gave lives for their country, he could not serve in the enemy's army which occupied and oppressed his country and contributed to death od both his parents. That it is why he had to run away far from Russia's occupied Poland. He would be accepted as refugee neither by Prussia nor Austrian empire. He would be expelled from both. Therefore, under above circumstances, he decided to follow his dreams and become a sailor. His uncle had approved it.

[@edgregory1]

Conrad's works have enriched my life. I Look foward to reading her book.

[@krystianniewiadomski7968]

His

[@edgregory1]

@@krystianniewiadomski7968 She wrote a book about Conrad.

[@krystianniewiadomski7968]

@@edgregory1 ok Thank you

[@marknewton6984]

Victory.

[@giovanameireles4576]

Perfection! Congratulations from Brazil, professor. 🇧🇷

[@ChrisW_Essex]

Hi, I was born in Stanford le hope, Essex Uk it’s about 20milea from London, we have a road named after Conrad here as he lived here for a period, I believe either before or adjacent to his time in Kent (near ashford), briefly reading I see it was possibly just two year he was in Essex and also at two locations in Stanford le hope… its noted that this location is not far from tilbury which is where the Thames ferry runs to Gravesend which I believe is where some of the early story of the heart of darkness is made, it would be interesting to know the exact years that he resided in Stanford le hope, cynically speaking SLH is close but also very far from the countryside these days

[@dalegamburg8995]

Waiting for 40 years for a lecture like this

[@davidwalker5054]

I read the N,,,,,,,,,,, of the Narcissist and other story,s by Conrad and was blown away by his genius. it was only later I found out English was his Third Language unbelievable

[@blackbird5634]

this is fascinating!

[@brianbuch1]

At around 42: Prof Jasanoff (Thank you!) talks about river navigation and how it's not straightforward. You can't get a better taste of what it might have been like than reading Twain's "Life on the Mississipi".

[@azzaz1]

I don't know if you're familiar wit singer/songwriter Tim Buckley. Shortly before his death he was planning a song cycle based on J.Conrad's The Outcast Of The Islands.

[@cherisenokes7173]

I love Tim Buckley, I didn’t know that …..He died far too young.

[@vinm300]

19:00 the lecture starts. 21:00 "His father was an overseer for a noble landowner" That means he was overseeing the serfs, who endured a miserable existence : no rights, no education, no freedom. The Polish nobles, when they new the game was up, and they were to be partitioned out of existence (1795) liberated the serfs (Proclamation of Połaniec, 1794). They had had a Damascene conversion to the Enlightenment - once the end was in sight. 28:00 "Conrad's allowance" :- was 5x his wages. "On 10 July 1876 Conrad sailed for the West Indies as a steward (at a salary of 35 francs, equivalent to one-fifth the allowance he received from his uncle) in the barque Saint Antoine"

[@cartergomez5390]

Thank you 💯

[@oscargoldman85]

Completely missed the point of Heart of Darkness. It is about the ability for people to become psychopaths. It is called the "Heart" or the "shadow". It is the subtext, and not directly referred to, but sledgehammered by inference. It happened at the same time Carl Jung was wrestling with exactly the same issues Any discussion on the book, that doesnt refer to this is like a Star Wars book that never mentions the Force.

[@sactownvegfest8869]

Maya Jasanoff is bringing me back to Conrad after a two decade hiatus; early on, I thought of a scene in 'Hope and Glory' and just now (11:09) when the map dropped down I felt I should share the scene: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGLJdK14i9Z8ndU.

[@zaffarqureshi1278]

34:33

[@onenewworldmonkey]

HE FOOLED ALL OF YOU. LOL I have gout and no one puts a bandage on it. The reason he had a bandage on his hand in the photo of the lawnchair is so that no one would want to shake his hand! This means it was all posed. He expected company. In the book "my personal experience with Joseph Conrad" the author mentions this.

[@jamesdrew6024]

BENWAY!

[@kudlatykid]

1:06:55 as always there is one "offended" they are offended that blacks where oppressed too

[@titiwhai]

Instead of arrows coming out of the forest it it cries of racism?

[@hejla4524]

Presentism

[@dalegamburg8995]

Having pluto within two degrees of jupiter your ruling planet in the twelph house of taurus ....material valuation...would explain suicide attempt,plus I he self destructive tendencies of sagittarius and Cancer

[@sactownvegfest8869]

Huh? Wha?

[@2msvalkyrie529]

🎵🎶 When the moon is in the 7 th house and Jupiter aligns with Mars...🎵....... ( makes just as much sense ! )

[@dalegamburg8995]

@@2msvalkyrie529 Pluto death. + Jupiterwealthand luck,ruler of yoursagittariusn sign ego expansion+12thhouseAbbyss.+Taurus major material possession issue any way+Sagittarius 🏹 impulsively hazardous =death expands swan diving over the abbyssyou nearly impulsively follow him because Pluto just killed all your luck and everything you own. I'm not going to put in the work if none is listening but I thought you might oh, ih could go on.. but I'll be brief.plus I love that tune

[@mikedaniels3009]

Somebody please enlighten me on this Joe Con emphatuation. I identify his stuff as among the least appealing ordeals of compulsory reading. Heavy, stuffy, stocky style owing to contrived lingo completely devoid of breezy wit, a sense of humour & colloquialisms that flows, nay, drags along the pages like mélasse just fetched from the fridge, and each time I must get a page behind me I can't help this longing for a shot of good ole Mark Twain, Reggie Perrin, Jeff Archer or Ray Chandler.

[@iii-qs7zr]

Mike boy, you maybe sailing on the different waves

[@christophercarrier2902]

Have you tried Typhoon?

[@ChrisW_Essex]

Maybe cause Apocalypse now had Marlon Brando in it

[@Gregory98]

Leftists talking about a genius who wrote in his third language and set standards for literary English is amusing to watch.

[@Of_infinite_Faith]

Leftist???

[@NealDurando]

Quoting Adam Hochschild, save to decry his feverish fantasies, is really gross.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Thought it was Truman Capote on podium. Then realised : Voice was too masculine..

[@jimpatterson4279]

You would not be jealous of this scholar’s knowledge would you?

[@Of_infinite_Faith]

​@@jimpatterson4279 they usually are, that's why they have stupid options with no substance

[@marknewton6984]

Thought it was Bruce Jenner.