Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution

Date: 

Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

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Speaker: Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of International Studies, Brown Unviersity

Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University

Peter Andreas will discuss his new book a political memoir described by the New York Times as "thoroughly engrossing " about his childhood on the run in South America with his Mennonite-turned-Marxist mother. Peter Andreas is the John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University where he holds a joint appointment between the department of political science and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Andreas has published ten books and has also written for a wide range of publications such as Foreign Affairs Foreign Policy The Nation Slate Harpers Washington Post and the New York Times.