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2014 FALL LECTURE SERIES The Great War and the Modern World To mark the centenary of the start of the First World War, the History Lecture Series returns this fall with presentations by four of our own faculty members on the topic "The Great War and the Modern World." The lectures will consider themes of domina- tion, integration, and betrayal, the transition from empires to nation-states, the tension between "home fronts" and "battle fronts," and the impact of the Great War on European intellectual traditions. The series will begin on November 5, 2014 with a lecture by Professor Raymond Jonas. An historian of the modern era, Jonas will discuss how the start of the war in 1914 signaled the terminal phase in the crisis of the European old regime — a crisis that had begun more than a century before. Pursuing the story of this crisis across themes of domination, integration, and betrayal, Jonas will consider the great power rivalries that underpinned the war, and THIS 1915 BRITISH PROPAGANDA POSTER DEPICTS WOMEN OF THE HOME FRONT ENTHUSIASTICALLY SENDING THEIR MEN TO WAR. THIS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOME FRONT AND BATTLE FRONT WOULD BECOME FRAUGHT WITH TENSION AS THE WAR PROGRESSED. history matters history matters TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from the Chair ........................................................2 Professor Kent Guy Retires .....................................................4 In Memorium .........................................................................4 2013-14 Lectures and Symposia ............................................5 Awards of Excellence .............................................................6 Graduate Student News ........................................................6 History Department Annual Awards .......................................7 Undergraduate Profiles ..........................................................8 Faculty News .........................................................................9 Graduate Student Profiles ....................................................10 Department Public and Digital History Projects .....................10 Alumni News .......................................................................11 the bleak, geopolitical thinking that informed them. He will explore the features of European political culture that obliterated tolerance for difference, finding in nation and race the psychological founda- tions of power. Finally, he will ask us to ponder the responsibilities of the powerful, viewed with the eyes of the young men they had persuaded to fight. On November 12, Professor Devin Naar will focus on how the Great War irrevocably transformed the map of Europe and the Middle East by provoking the dissolution of the major empires of the Hapsburgs, Romanovs, and Ottomans. This lecture will focus on the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the role of the war in galvanizing new nation-states in the region, and the cataclysmic impact of these processes on diverse populations. He will also explain how issues at stake in 1914 continue to echo today in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire. On November 19, Professor Jordanna Bailkin will discuss one of the most enduring concepts that we associate with the Great War — the idea of diametrically opposed "home fronts" and "battle fronts." Many of those who waged the war — and those who wrote about it afterwards — upheld this distinction between FALL 2014 | NEWSLETTER HISTORY LECTURE SERIES Wednesdays, 7pm – 8:30pm, Kane Hall 130 November 5, 2014 November 12, 2014 November 19, 2014 December 3, 2014 Learn more and purchase tickets at www.uwalum.com/history (Continued on page 3)

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