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 […]
Consider the powerful images conjured up by the words “apocalypse” and “end times”! We begin our fall semester activities with a provocative and fascinating roundtable discussion with three scholars on the topic of Apocalypticism in Twentieth-Century Germany. Prof. Michael Meng of Clemson University will discuss the philosopher Carl Schmitt’s politics of violence. Prof. Monica Black of […]
On April 9, 2015 (Thurs.), at 6pm in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library, Prof. Ted Gup of Emerson College will give a lecture entitled “The CIA and U.S. Intelligence-Gathering, Post 9/11: Transformation and Consequences”. The lecture is free and open to the public. Professor Gup has been a journalist and teacher of journalism for […]
Video of Dr. Lilly’s lecture (delivered in the lecture series on AfterWars for the Center for the Study of War and Society), “What Did They Die For?: Grave Markers from the Yugoslav Wars of Dissolution, 1945-1995” is now online. It can be accessed by visiting the Center’s YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/UTKCSWS
Graduate students active in the programs of the Center for the Study of War and Society continue to set new records! In March 2015, TWO of them made the New York Times. First, Robert Glaze (Doctoral student in US History, working on the Civil War) had a piece published in the New York Times online Disunion series: You […]
History doctoral student Josh Sander was awarded a Fulbright grant to Germany for next year. Josh is currently at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on a fellowship. His dissertation deals with Nazi plans for the occupied Netherlands. Josh’s win means that graduate students active with the Center for the Study of War and Society have […]
Join us for a lecture at University of Tennessee Knoxville next Monday, March 30, 2015, at 4pm (Haslam Business Bldg. Room 303), by Carol Lilly, Professor of History and Director of International Studies, University of Nebraska Kearney. The lecture is entitled “What Did They Die For?: Grave Markers from the Wars of Yugoslav Dissolution in Serbia, Croatia, […]
One of our graduate student assistants at the Center for the Study of War and Society, Alison Vick, was just awarded a research grant by the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University. There, she will conduct archival research on her doctoral dissertation, which deals with German POW camps in both world wars and the history […]
A video of this year’s annual Johnson Lecture, which honors the Center’s founder Charles Johnson, is now online. The lecture was given by Dr. Robert Nelson (University of Windsor) on the subject of World War I trench newspapers. The video can be accessed by visiting the Center’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/UTKCSWS
On January 22 (Thursday). Prof. Robert Nelson of the University of Windsor, Canada, will present a lecture entitled : “Trenches, Women, Jokes, and the Enemy: German, British, and French Soldier Newspapers during the First World War”. The lecture will be held at 4pm on Jan. 22 (Thursday) in UT’s Haslam Business Building, Room 303. The […]