The last of three University Lectures of the academic year, it will begin at 8 P.M. in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus at Broadway and 116th Street.
Admission is free and the public is invited.
Professor Schama's writings have challenged conventional historical practice in bringing the past to vivid life. The Old Dominion Professor of Humanities at Columbia since his appointment in 1993, Professor Schama teaches in both the History Department and Art History and Archaeology Department. He is art critic for The New Yorker magazine. London born, he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received the B.A. and M.A. in history.