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The Great War Lecture Series

1 November 2014

11am - 12pm

Free event

The hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War is an opportunity for commemoration and reflection. Organized by the Waikato Museum and the University of Waikato, the Great War Lecture Series brings together experts in the fields of military history, peace research, politics, and the history of ideas. Focusing on the local as well as the international dimensions and consequences of the Great War, the lectures cover a wide range of aspects of this major event in modern history.

Lecture Three - The 'Urkatastrophe' or seminal catastrophe of the 20th century: contemporary German scholarship about the First World War

Saturday 1 November

Speaker: Dr Norman Franke, Senior lecturer, German Programme, School of Arts, The University of Waikato

Eventbrite - The Great War Lecture Series - The 'Urkatastrophe'

 

 

Past events in this series:

 

Lecture One - Devices of War and Instruments of Peace

2 August 2014

Speaker: Dr. Colm McKeogh

A political rush to war led to a tactical stalemate on the battlefield and the toll in human life soared beyond one that made any sense. The responses to the slaughter of the Great War were many and ranged from strategy to literature.

Developments in the technologies of killing in 1914-1918 prompted responses in law and international organisation in the post-war period intended to give expression to a renewed desire for peace. But the perception of a mismatch between the devices of war and the instruments of peace has scarcely lessened in the 100 years since 1914. 

 

Lecture Two - The liberation of Le Quesnoy on 4 November 1918

Saturday 4 October

Speaker: Dr Nathalie Philippe, Senior lecturer, French Programme, School of Arts, The University of Waikato.