#  BU: "Re-Thinking the End of the British Empire" | Carolyn Elkins 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 28, 2015** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **B.U. Photonics Center Floor 9, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston**  



 

 



 

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Caroline Elkins is Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her work focuses on colonial violence and post-conflict reconciliation in Africa, and the role of violence in the decline of the British empire. Her first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya*, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize.*[Download](http://www.bu.edu/history/files/2015/03/Sawyer-Elkins_BW.pdf) and print the flyer in black and white.



 

 



 

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