14th Annual Bliss Carnochan Lecture: Emma Rothschild April 7, 2006

Emma Rothschild, Historian and Director of the Centre for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge, will deliver the 14th Annual Bliss Carnochan Lecture entitled, "Children and Childishness Revisited."

Professor Rothschild is also Visiting Professor of History at Harvard University. She is chairman of the Kennedy Memorial Trust and of the United Nations Foundation Board Executive Committee. She has written extensively on economic history and the history of economic thought. Her work, "Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment" was published in 2001 by Harvard University Press, and in Italian and Portugese translation in 2003.

The lecture will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Levinthal Hall at the Stanford Humanities Center located at 424 Santa Teresa Street.