International and Intellectual Life at North Hill – Sep 23

Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 23 | 11:00 AM
North Hill Resident Alan Henrikson

North Hill is open to “the world”—
in many spheres of human accomplishment, including music and the visual arts, science and technology, history and politics, economics and business, and philosophy and religious tradition and also in the range of experience of persons who live and are employed here, for we come from, have worked or served in, and have traveled to places all over the globe. To reside at North Hill is a learning experience, an unexpected further education. It is not only in its many formal programs—the Friday Night Forum, the Understanding Our World series, the “North Hill Reads” book, the annual Farley Lecture, and the new North Hill Academy. It is the enlightenment of informal conversations that one has on an almost daily basis with fellow residents, team members, and family and other visitors, of all ages. The interchange enhances our mental and moral life with the constant stimulus of shared thinking, humor, and accumulated wisdom. Alan Henrikson, a resident at North Hill for three years, is Lee E. Dirks Professor of Diplomatic History Emeritus at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he taught American diplomatic history, contemporary U.S.-European relations, global political geography, and the history, theory, and practice of diplomacy for more than four decades. He has served as Fulbright Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and, earlier, at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. He has given courses at universities in Beijng and Moscow and also has taught in Japan, Vietnam, and South Africa. He is a graduate of Harvard University and of the University of Oxford, where he studied Philosophy-Politics-and-Economics at Balliol College as a Rhodes Scholar.