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Two upcoming talks by Dr. Joachim Tauber

On April 24 and 25, Dr. Joachim Tauber will give talks on Hitler’s decision to attack the Soviet Union (24th) and on the Holocaust in Lithuania (25th). Both events will occur at 4 p.m. in Hoskins Library 217.

Upcoming McClay talk

On April 18, 2013 in the UC Crest Room, Dr. Wilfred M. McClay will give a talk entitled “The Mirage of Innocence and the Mirror of Guilt: Confronting the Dilemmas of a Postwar Moral Economy.” Dr. McClay is the SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities and a Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Author Rob Simbeck gives the 2013 Johnson Lecture

On March 20, 2013, Rob Simbeck, an award-winning author who has written for numerous periodicals, including The Washington Post and Rolling Stone, delivered the Center’s 2013 Johnson Lecture. In his talk, titled “Tennessee’s Cornelia Fort, Pearl Harbor, and the Female Pilots of World War II,” he recounted the story of Tennessee’s own Cornelia Fort, the […]

Dr. Liulevicius delivers a talk at the National WWI Museum

Last weekend, Dr. Vejas Liulevicius, the Director of the Center for the Study of War & Society and the Lindsay Young Professor of History in the UT History Department, delivered an invited lecture at an international WWI centennial planning conference. The multi-day conference was devoted to the theme of “Shedding Light on ‘A Century in […]

April 2nd Public Talk by Professor Adam Jortner

On April 2, 2013 Professor Adam Jortner of Auburn University will give a lecture entitled “Violence and ‘Superstition’ on the American Frontier, 1810-1858.” The event will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Hoskins Library Seminar Room (217). Refreshments will be provided.

14th Annual Johnson Lecture

The 14th Annual Johnson Lecture will take place on March 20 at 5:00 p.m. in the Toyota Auditorium at the Howard H. Baker Center. Rob Simbeck, an award-winning author, will speak about Cornelia Fort, the history-making Nashville pilot who served during World War II as a founding member of the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, the first organization under the United States Army Air Forces to employ female pilots.

Screening of the film, “Theologians Under Hitler”

There will be a screening of the film Theologians Under Hitler on February 20, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at Remedy Coffeehouse in Old City, to be followed by a discussion by a panel of the area’s most distinguished religious leaders. For more information email info@vitalvisions.org or call 865-483-6823.