Past Event Category: War in Society, and Culture
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Apr 2“Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire”
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Room 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
In Africa, the late twentieth century was a time of military coups and martial “revolutions.” In Nigeria and other former British colonies, the army officers who took power tried to remake their societies along military lines. They had utopian visions, and Samuel Fury Childs Daly describes the dismal ideology that they made: militarism. Co-sponsored by: Wisconsin Veterans Museum, War in Society and Culture Program, Department of History, African Studies Program
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Mar 19“Uniform Fantasies”
“Uniform Fantasies” Jeffrey Schneider (Vassar College) Comment by: Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia) Chair: Chad Gibbs (College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies) Jeffrey Schneider is a Professor of German Studies, Faculty Director of Affirmative Action, and Director of Global Nineteenth Century Studies at Vassar. Schneider works on foreign language pedagogy as well …
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Mar 12“Flying Brothers: Research and Writing Methods for a Dissertation about the Cold War in Southeast Asia” – Daniel Jackson
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building
“Flying Brothers: Research and Writing Methods for a Dissertation about the Cold War in Southeast Asia” War in Society and Culture Program Event Daniel Jackson (PhD Candidate, Department of History) Daniel Jackson spent 11 years as a pilot in Air Force Special Operations Command and served all over the globe, including two deployments as …
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Jan 30“WWII Comrades to Korean War Enemies and Cold War Strangers: Three Chinese Interpreters’ Trans-imperial Encounters” – David Chang
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building
“WWII Comrades to Korean War Enemies and Cold War Strangers: Three Chinese Interpreters’ Trans-imperial Encounters” David Chang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Join us for our first Spring semester lecture titled “WWII Comrades to Korean War Enemies and Cold War Strangers: Three Chinese Interpreters’ Trans-imperial Encounters” in the Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse …
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Dec 5Stefan Aune, “Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire”
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St)
“Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire” Stefan Aune (Williams University) Stefan Aune is a Professor of American Studies at Williams University. Professor Aune is an interdisciplinary historian of the global United States. His research examines the intersections of race, colonialism, and violence. Sponsored by: the War in Society and Culture …
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Oct 8Village by Town by City: The Religious Rape Conquest of Neolithic-Derived Civil Societies
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities Building)
“Village by Town by City: The Religious Rape Conquest of Neolithic-Derived Civil Societies” War in Society and Culture Speaker Series Kathy Gaca (Vanderbilt University) Kathy L. Gaca (got’-sa) is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Member of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Her main research interests are Greek and Roman philosophy, mainly Platonic, Stoic, …
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Apr 4Beth Bailey, War in Society and Culture Program Lecture
Pyle Center 232
“An Army Afire: How the U.S. Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era” Beth Bailey (University of Kansas) Even as US troops fought in Vietnam, Black and white soldiers battled each other in barracks and bars, with violence spilling into the streets of towns and cities in the United States and around the …
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Nov 8Strong Women, Big Guns: Noblewomen, Artillery, and Arsenals During the French Wars of Religion
Pyle Center, Room 309
Speaker: Professor Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University Description: Prof. Sandberg’s research focuses on religion, violence, and political culture during the European Wars of Religion. He has authored a monograph entitled, Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and held fellowships from the Institut d’Etudes Avancées …