Global Lincoln

Lincoln met with his cabinet on July 22, 1862 for the first reading of a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Opportunity to receive a grant to attend an international conference examining the international legacy of Abraham Lincoln in Oxford this July.

After his death Abraham Lincoln became a global figure who spoke - and continues to speak - to peoples across the world. As the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George said, Lincoln ‘lost his nationality in death.' His political principles, his record of successful executive leadership in wartime, his role as the ‘Great Emancipator,' his resolute defence of popular government, and the perception of him as an exemplar of human brotherhood made him an international cult figure.

Co-sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, the Chicago History Museum, the United States Embassy in London and the University of Oxford, the ‘Global Lincoln' conference will bring together leading historians from around the world to explore the international legacy of the sixteenth president of the United States.

The conference will run from the afternoon of Friday 3^rd to the afternoon of Sunday 5^th July at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. Please find attached a draft programme (please note that some elements may still be subject to change). The proceedings will be highlighted by a keynote address to be given by a prominent public figure. Further information can be found at the conference website.

Thanks to the generosity of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of New York, funds have been secured to enable a limited number of history teachers to attend the conference as day delegates for the Saturday and Sunday. Conference grants will cover all conference fees (including lunch), as well as reimbursement of travel expenses up to a total cost of £50 (receipts will be required).

The full residential package for the conference is £210, and includes accommodation (at St. Catherine's) and attendance at the conference dinners, on the nights of the 3^rd and 4^th of July. Regretfully, so that the American Institute is able to offer as many teachers as possible the opportunity to attend, they are unable to offer a grant that covers the full cost of the residential package. However, they are happy to offer the grant as a subsidy towards meeting the full residential costs, if you would prefer to attend on a residential basis and are able to cover the remaining £110 of the residential package and travel costs yourself.

Grants will be distributed on a first come, first served basis. Those interested in receiving a grant to attend the conference, or in obtaining further information, should contact Lucy Dugmore, by email, telephone or post, at the below.

Professor Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History, University of Oxford

Dr. Jay Sexton, University Lecturer in American History, University of Oxford

Contact: Dr. Lucy Dugmore, Academic Programme Administrator, Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UB, Tel: +44 (0) 1865 282 711, Fax: +44 (0) 1865 282 720, lucy.dugmore@rai.ox.ac.uk