On Thursday, December 4, at 4 p.m., Dr. Stephen Fritz will deliver a talk titled: The Convulsions of Defeat: World War One and Hitler’s Ideology. The presentation will be held in the University of Tennessee’s Humanities Center, Melrose Hall, Room E 102. Dr. Fritz is a professor of modern European history at East Tennessee State […]
On Thursday, December 4, at 4 p.m., Dr. Stephen Fritz will deliver a talk titled: The Convulsions of Defeat: World War One and Hitler’s Ideology. The presentation will be held in the University of Tennessee’s Humanities Center, Melrose Hall, Room E 102. Dr. Fritz is a professor of modern European history at East Tennessee State […]
Dr. Liulevicius is delivering the keynote at a World War I conference in advance of Veteran’s Day. The lecture is at Georgia Gwinnett College, in the Atlanta area, on Nov. 8, 2014. The talk is from 3pm-4:30pm, and is entitled “Realities of Military Occupation on the Eastern Front in World War I: Germans, Jews, and […]
The Center’s director, Dr. Vejas Liulevicius has been invited to give a lecture at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX) on Wednesday, October 8. His talk,”Eastern Europe and German Occupation in the First World War” will discuss this lesser known theater of operations. It will investigate the ethnic landscape where the Russian, Austria-Hungarian and German empires converged, the […]
Former Center graduate assistant Will Rall has been awarded a Dr. Richard M. Hunt Fellowship for the Study of German Politics, Society, and Culture to support his dissertation research. Will’s project is “Nazi Charity: Giving, Emotion, and Morality in the Third Reich.” Hunt fellowships assist American academics whose research contributes to the scholarly discourse on contemporary German society and the political, […]
Our current Center graduate assistant, Mike McConnell was awarded a dissertation-writing award from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. This award is for Mike’s dissertation entitled “Home to the Reich: The Nazi Occupation of Europe’s Influence on Life Inside Germany, 1941-1945”. This is the eleventh major award won by graduate students active with the Center.
An editorial written by Captain Rosemary Mariner on the subject of the British military’s expansion of Infantry roles to women will appear in the September 20 issue of New Scientist magazine. The article can be found here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329874.700-gender-bias-has-no-place-in-the-british-army.html#.VBsTaVe1Ewc
The Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society, Dr. Vejas Liulevicius and Center Fellow Dr. Ernest Freeberg were featured this week in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. The article, entitled “Great War now a faded memory in Chattanooga area” discusses the reasons why the recent one hundredth anniversary of the start […]
One of our Fellows at the Center for the Study of War and Society was featured in this past weekend’s Wall Street Journal column, “Five Best”, which usually has a prominent historian or writer suggesting personal choices for the best reading on a particular subject. Dr. John McManus, professor at Missouri University of Science […]
On Thursday, April 17, 2014, Dr. Peter Way of the University of Windsor, Canada, gave a guest talk at the University of Tennessee titled “Artisans of War: Common Soldiers and the Making of Britain’s Atlantic Empire in the Seven Years’ War.” Below is a multi-part recording of Dr. Way’s talk.