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, 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 […]
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