*Apologies for cross-posting*
Dear all,
the Institute for German Studies (IGS) at the University of Birmingham would like to invite you to its upcoming event
The Significance of the World War One Centenary in Transnational Perspective
Speakers:
Professor Gerhard Hirschfeld (University of Stuttgart)
Dennis Grinat (Ruhr Museum, Essen - PhD candidate, University of Stuttgart)
Chair:
Dr Nicholas Martin (IGS Birmingham)
Gerhard Hirschfeld is Germany's leading historian of the First World War, and an authority on both world wars (including the comparative history of occupation and collaboration in WW2). He is the co-author of Deutschland
im Ersten Weltkrieg (2013) and co-editor of Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg (2003),
which has become a standard reference work. Dennis Grinat, whose PhD is being supervised by Gerhard Hirschfeld, has experience of working on two major transnational projects connected with the history of the First
World War.
WHEN? Thursday, 24 November 2016, 5–7 p.m.
WHERE? Muirhead Tower, Room 714-15, University of Birmingham
ALL WELCOME!
Best wishes,
Maren
Maren Rohe
Doctoral Researcher & Project Assistant
Institute for German Studies
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
B15 2TT
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