Speaker
Simon Schama
Professor, Art History and History, Columbia University, BBC Broadcaster and Contributing Editor, Financial Times
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. Since 1990, Simon has presented more than thirty documentaries on art and history for the BBC among them the award winning fifteen part A History of Britain, Rough Crossings and the Emmy-winning eight-part Power of Art first broadcast in 2006. Other of his programmes include Murder at Harvard based on his novella Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculation, a five part series based on Landscape and Memory, and a film on Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
