Dear Friends of CSWS, We invite you to join us next Tuesday for a fascinating lecture by a scholar of the role gender plays in partisan warfare and irregular conflicts, and the politics of memory concerning this topic. The lecture is free and open to the public. You are welcome to invite undergraduates from your classes to attend […]
Dear Friends of CSWS, We have great news to share from history graduate students active at the Center for the Study of War and Society. Josh Sander won a significant summer travel grant from the Central European History Society. He will use it to make a last research trip this summer to Amsterdam’s NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide […]
Dear Friends of the Center for the Study of War and Society, We invite you to hear Dr. Susan Eastman (UTC) speak on “The Evolution of the Veterans’ Writing Group at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga” . The free event takes place Feb. 25 (Thursday), noon, in the seminar space in Hoskins Library, 2d floor. Bio: Dr. Susan L. Eastman is […]
Join us on Jan. 14 (Thurs.) at noon for a lecture by Dr. Thomas Lecaque (Lecturer, UT History Department), on the topic: “Marching to Apocalypse: The Provencal First Crusade, the Cult of the Holy Lance, and Apocalyptic Anxiety during the Siege of Jerusalem in 1099”. The lecture will be held in Hoskins Library, on the second floor in […]
Dear Friends of the Center for the Study of War and Society, The Center for the Study of War and Society has just published our fall 2015 Newsletter. Below you will find a few highlights of the newsletter. The full newsletter can be accessed via the link at the bottom of this post. HIGHLIGHTS include: The […]
The Great Courses company has just released a new course on DVD/CD/Download by our Center Director, Dr. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius (this is his seventh course with the company. Others include WWI, diplomacy, dictatorship, espionage, turning points of modern world history, and explorers). The new course, “A History of Eastern Europe”, covers the Baltics to the […]
Our Director at the Center for the Study of War and Society was quoted in this new article about the OSS in World War II, on the occasion of Veteran’s Day. See more: http://news.investors.com/management-leaders-and-success/111015-780073-jack-taylor-was-wwii-special-operator.htm?p=full
Dear Friends of the Center for the Study of War and Society, Join us next week, Nov. 12 (Thurs.) at noon for a lecture by Dr. Michael McConnell (Lecturer, UT History Department), on the topic: “‘Bandit Country’: Nazi Security Violence between East and West, 1939-1945”. The lecture will be held in Hoskins Library, on the second floor […]
Dear Friends of the Center for the Study of War and Society, The Director of our Center, Dr. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, will be the featured professor in a LIVE CHAT on-line hosted by The Great Courses, which produces recorded lecture courses on DVD, CD, and download. They have produced six recorded lecture courses by Liulevicius, on topics […]
The Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee would like to inform you that we have recently set up a Facebook page. It can be found at https://www.facebook.com/UniversityofTennesseeCSWS/info?tab=overview or by searching for The Center for the Study of War and Society on Facebook. We encourage all of you to like and share […]