Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 Book Launch: Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania's First and Last King

DateTimeLocation
Tuesday, March 26, 20245:30PM - 7:30PMBoardroom and Library, This event was held at 315 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, M5S 0A7

Description

Robert Austin joined us for a discussion of his new book that begins in 1961, when Albanian King Zog I died in a Paris hospital after 22 years in exile. Austin tells the colorful story of this Balkan country’s first and only homegrown monarch. The road to becoming Europe’s youngest president in 1925 and then king of Albania in 1928 was paved with feuds and assassinations. Austin combines Zog’s adventurous life story with a studious analysis of Albania’s political history from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the threshold of Euro-Atlantic integration.

 

Remarks by Professors Randall Hansen and Edward Schatz.

 

 


Speakers

Robert C. Austin
Speaker
Associate Director, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and Professor, Teaching Stream, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Munk School

Randall Hansen
Discussant
Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School, Canada Research Chair in Global Migration, and Director, Global Migration Lab

Edward Schatz
Speaker
Director, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Munk School, Director, Belt and Road in Global Perspective, Director, Eurasia Initiative and Professor, Department of Political Science


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