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The Doughboy Foundation’s mission is to keep the story of "the War that Changed the World" in the minds of all Americans, so that the 4.7 million who served in the U.S. Armed Forces during WWI will never again be relegated to the mists of obscurity. LEARN MORE
‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’ Held at Ohio State University October 27 & 28, 2016
January 3, 2017
Shell Shock: Core Insights of the Recent Historiography by Professor Mark Micale
Introductory poetry reading Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Read by Kahla Tisdale, MFA actor
Speaker
Mark Micale is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD from Yale University. Professor Micale’s specializations include European intellectual history, the history of medicine (especially psychiatry), gender and masculinity studies, and modern France. Among his publications are Discovering the History of Psychiatry (1994), Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930 (2001), and Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness (2008).
About The ‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’
‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’ Held at Ohio State University October 27 & 28, 2016
December 27, 2016
WWI and the Emerging Laws of War by Professor John Quigley
Introductory poetry reading Picnic, July 1917 by Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) Read by Zack Meyer and Sara Perry, MFA actors
Speaker
John Quigley is President’s Club Professor Emeritus of Law, Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University. Before joining the Ohio State faculty in 1969, Professor Quigley was a research scholar at Moscow State University, and a research associate in comparative law at Harvard Law School, where he received his degrees. Professor Quigley teaches International Law and Comparative Law. In 1982-83 he was a visiting professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Professor Quigley is active in international human rights work. His numerous publications include books and articles on human rights, the United Nations, war and peace, east European law, African law, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
About The ‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’
‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’ Held at Ohio State University October 27 & 28, 2016
December 19, 2016
War, Death, and Remembrance in 1914-1918 by Professor Bruno Cabanes
Introductory poetry reading "Break of Day in the Trenches" by Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) Read by Linnea Bond, MFA actor
Speaker
Bruno Cabanes is the Donald G. & Mary A. Dunn Chair in Modern Military History. He received his Ph.D., with distinction, from the Université Paris I- Panthéon Sorbonne, and his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, from the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Prior to coming to the Ohio State University, he taught for nine years at Yale University. He is the author of several books on World War I and its aftermath, including The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924 (Cambridge University Press), winner of the AHA Paul Birdsall Prize 2016, and August 1914: France, the Great War and a Month that Changed the World Forever(Yale University Press), finalist of a prestigious French book award, the Prix Fémina for nonfiction in 2014.
About The ‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’
‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’ Held at Ohio State University October 27 & 28, 2016
December 12, 2016
The Redefinition of Battle: Verdun and the Somme, 1916 by Sir Hew Strachan
Speaker
Sir Hew Strachan, FRSE, Hon D. Univ (Paisley) was Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford until 2015, and is now Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His recent books include The First World War: Volume 1: To Arms (2001), The First World War: An Illustrated History (2003; related to a multi-part television series and translated into many languages), Clausewitz’s On War: A Biography (2007), and The Direction of War (2013). He is the editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (revised edition, 2014), and a clutch of volumes arising from his Directorship of the Oxford Changing Character of War Programme. He is a member of the Chief of Defence Staff’s Strategic Advisory Panel, the Defence Academy Advisory Board, and the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and has been a specialist advisor to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the National Security Strategy in the recently dissolved Parliament. He is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum and a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner, and serves on the both the United Kingdom’s and Scotland’s national advisory panels for the centenary of the First World War.
About The ‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’
‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’ Held at Ohio State University October 27 & 28, 2016
December 5, 2016
Financing the First World War by Professor Jennifer Siegel
Introductory poetry reading "The Song of Mud" by Mary Borden (1886-1968) Read by Blake Edwards, Joe Kopyt, and Ambre Shoneff, MFA actors
Speaker
Jennifer Siegel joined the OSU Department of History in the fall of 2003. She received her PhD at Yale University. Professor Siegel specializes in modern European diplomatic and military history, with a focus on Britain, France, and ImperialRussia. She is the author of For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars (2014), and Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia (2002). She has published articles on intelligence history, and co-edited Intelligence and Statecraft: The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society (2005).
About The ‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’
‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’ Held at Ohio State University October 27 & 28, 2016
November 27, 2016
The Military History of World War I, 1914-1918 by Professor Peter Mansoor
Introductory poetry reading "To Germany" by Charles Hamilton Sorley (1885-1915) Read by Benito Lara, MFA actor AND "The Dancers (During a Great Battle, 1916)" by Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) Read by Mandy Mitchell, MFA actor
Speaker
Peter Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.), is the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History and a frequent commentator in the media on national security affairs. He assumed his position at OSU in 2008, after a 26-year career in the U.S. Army that culminated in his service as the executive officer to General David Petraeus, Commanding General of Multi- National Force-Iraq. Professor Mansoor received his PhD from the Ohio State University. He is the author of The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945 (1999), awarded the Society for Military History book of the year, Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq (2008), awarded the Ohioana Library Association nonfiction book of the year, and Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War (2013), a finalist for the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Military History Prize.
About The ‘The War to End All Wars: U.S. National World War I Centennial Symposium, 1916-2016’
