The Institute for Transatlantic, European and American Studies (ITEAS) was formally launched on 12 November with the first of its annual lectures. The lecture was given by internationally renowned journalist and scholar, Godfrey Hodgson.
Mr. Hodgson spoke eloquently and with great insight into the problems that currently afflict relations between Europe and the United States. Having spent over forty years writing and reporting on European and American affairs and having met such luminaries as Dr Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and many other political leaders, it is hard to imagine anyone better positioned to place matters in context and make perceptive analysis.
The evening was chaired by Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute, Alan Dobson, and a vote of thanks was offered by the Principal Sir Alan Langlands. Two hundred people attended the lecture, including Ms Cecile Shea, US Consul General, and Mr Michael Roche, the French Consulate General. The ITEAS Annual Lecture provides a high profile venue for distinguished speakers covering any aspect of transatlantic, European and American affairs. Godfrey Hodgson's, and subsequent lectures will be published in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Professor Dobson.