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On March 13th, BBC correspondent Allan Little, the 2018 UC Berkeley Regents' Lecturer, delivered a talk to over 30 students and community members on UK-Scottish Relations After Brexit. Little, a native of Scotland, drew upon his experience growing up there, as well as his work with the BBC in Europe, to approach the question of whether the Brexit phenomenon would eventually lead to the breakup of the entire United Kingdom.

On March 7th, over 60 people gathered in Doe Library to hear this year’s Regents’ Lecture by Allan Little, “Reporting the World in an Age of Fear: The Fragility of the Post-War Order.” Allan Little is an experienced foreign correspondent for the BBC, who has done extensive work in the Soviet Union and Iraq. Little was able to offer the students and community members a unique perspective on the reporting of events of war while being in and close to the action.

On February 28, Timothy Scott Brown, IES Senior Fellow and Professor of History at Northeastern University, presented a talk based on his book, The 'Global 1968' at Fifty: What it Meant and What it Means, to a crowd of thirty community members and students. He discussed the global revolt of 1968 on both sides of the Cold War divide, explaining that it is possible and important not only to think at the local level but to look at the global framework and the movement of ideas which shaped the events of 1968. This makes the term “Global 1986” relevant in scholarship and enables us to understand that many “smaller” 1968s also occurred.

On February 21, 2018, IES Visiting Scholar and GHI-West Fellow Albert Manke (Bielefeld University) gave a lecture entitled “Small states and Secondary Actors in the Cold War: Entanglement between Europe and Latin America” to an audience of sixteen students, faculty, and community members. He began by stating that new Cold War studies have turned to personal accounts instead of accounts of violence and conflict. This continued development in Cold War studies is seen in entanglements of history, cultural impact, and the inclusion of the global south.