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WAR & VIOLENCE IN WORLD HISTORY

April 16 and 17, 2025.

Wednesday, April 16

Keynote (Central Library, 6th floor)

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

“Haunted Communities & Disorderly Partners: the Challenge of Writing ‘Violence’ across Communities”

James F. Brooks

Thursday, April 17

(Carlisle Academy Room, University Center)

9:30 AM

“War and Violence in the Age of Napoleon: A Soldier’s Perspective.”

Alexander Mikaberidze

10:30 AM

“Gendering Transimperial Warscapes: Multidimensional Effects of the First World War in Africa.”

Michelle Moyd

1:00 PM

“Greek Mercenary Soldiers and the Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 450-350 BC”

John W.I. Lee

2:00 PM

“A Variation on the Violence of War”

Sabrina Thomas

3:00 PM

“Lincoln Learning: What Abraham Lincoln & the War Department Learned from Black Military Service in the U.S. Civil War”

Susannah Ural