Stella Ghervas is a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies and a senior fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine in Bordeaux. Her book, Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance, was awarded the Guizot Prize of the Académie Française in 2009.

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University. His most recent book is Foundations of Modern International Thought, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013.

They are the organizers of the Harvard symposium “The Power of Peace: New Perspectives on the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)” on April 11, 2014.