The Age of Questions

The Centre for the Study of Internationalism launched with a lecture by Professor Holly Case examining ‘The Age of Questions’. The talk focused on a period in modern history – roughly 1810 to 1950 – when ‘questions’ reigned. The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy wrote his views on the ‘Eastern question’ through the character in Anna Karenina, the future president of Czechoslovakia penned over 700 pages on the ‘social question’, and a German novelist expressed his immoderate views on the ‘oyster question’. When and why did people start thinking in terms of ‘questions’ and what did it mean? The Centre for the Study of Internationalism provides an intellectual home for researchers from a range of academic disciplines with interests in internationalism, broadly conceived. For more information: https://centreforthestudyofinternationalism.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/the-age-of-questions .