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 […]
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.