Professor Richard Bourke will be attending a symposium on his new book at the Yale University Centre for the Study of Representative Institutions (link is external) on September 10. The symposium will be devoted to discussion of his study of the statesman and thinker Edmund Burke, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (link is external). The book deals with Burke’s role at the centre of political events in an age of empire and revolution. Details of papers and speakers can be found on the Centre’s website (link is external). An interview with Prof. Bourke on his book is available on the QMUL YouTube Channel (link is external).