Remembering World War I: A Hundredth Anniversary Commemoration
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- Date/Time
- 09/18/2014 7:00 PM EST - 8:30 PM EST
- Location
- Batten Arts & Letters - BAL 1012
- Fee
- Free
- Description
- “Commemorating Catastrophe: The Great War 100 Years On” Professor Jay Winter, Yale University, Department of History. One hundred years after the outbreak of hostilities in 1914, the First World War still represents the opening of a revolution in violence that transformed the world. This lecture focuses on the question what should we commemorate, where should we commemorate, and why should we commemorate what Europeans still term the ‘Great War’, the foundational catastrophe of the twentieth century. Professor Jay M. Winter, the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, has written extensively about World War I and its impact on the 20th century. His many books include Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, 1914-1918, and The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century. He was the co-producer, co-writer and chief historian for the PBS series “The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century.”
