Dear Friends of the Center for the Study of War and Society, This season marks the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland. On April 25 (Monday) at 4-5pm in the seminar space outside the Center for the Study of War and Society at Hoskins Library at UTK, Prof. Martin Griffin (Department of […]
Dear Tennessee Great War Commission and Friends, Here is news about a World War I event in Knoxville, a mini-exhibition at the McClung Museum on UT’s campus. The organizer of the exhibit, Robert Rennie, will give a brief gallery talk on the exhibit on April 6 at 1:30pm. Rennie is the McClung Museum Academic Programs […]
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 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, 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 […]