Event: The Significance of the First World War Centenary in Transnational Perspective

The Significance of the First World War Centenary in Transnational Perspective

Speakers:
Professor Gerhard Hirschfeld (University of Stuttgart)
Dennis Grinat (Ruhr Museum, Essen)
Chair:
Dr Nicholas Martin (Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham)

Professor Gerhard Hirschfeld, one of Germany’s leading historians of the First World War, and his PhD student Dennis Grinat will be visiting the University of Birmingham next week as guest scholars in the History strand of the Institute for German Studies (IGS) research project, ‘(Not) Made in Germany? Imagining Germany from the Outside’.

The seminar will focus on national and transnational dimensions of First World War centenary commemorations across the globe, and on how these are transforming understandings of the conflict itself, of political and social histories, and of national self-images today.

WHEN?  Thursday, 24 November 2016, 5–7 p.m.

WHERE? University of Birmingham, Muirhead Tower, Room 714-15

ALL WELCOME!