Lawrence Wolff
Professor of History, Boston College

"The Legacy of Mozart in Metternich's Galicia"

Monday, 10 April 2006
4:00 p.m.
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive

Sponsored by the Center for European Studies
and
The Center for Russia, East Europe, & Central Asia (CREECA)
with support from the University Lectures Committee

Larry Wolff is a Professor at Boston College who received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1984. Professor Wolff teaches courses in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe, focusing especially on Eastern Europe and the age of Enlightenment. He is interested in East-West issues within Europe, and his recent research has focused on how, in the age of Enlightenment, Europe came to be conceived of as divided between "Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe." He teaches courses on cultural geography in European intellectual history, that is, on how Europe constructed its intellectual map of the world, starting with the age of Renaissance discovery and exploration, and including issues of Orientalism in European culture. His recent research projects have focused on the French Enlightenment and Russia, the Venetian Enlightenment and Dalmatia, and Enlightenment perspectives on the Orthodox world in Eastern Europe. He studies and teaches the history of Poland and the Habsburg monarchy, and in 2002 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for a research project on Habsburg Poland (Galicia). In 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.