Past Events

March 2, 2014
Friederike Brühöfener (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Negotiating Gay Rights, Youth Protection and Combat Readiness:
The West German Bundeswehr and the Reform of the Criminal Code
Abstract and Bio

February 7, 2014
Mary Beth Chopas (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Law, Security, and Ethnic Profiling:
Italians in the United States during World War II
Abstract and Bio

January 24, 2014
Kara Dixon Vuic (High Point University)
“Look, but Don’t Touch”:
American Women as Military Entertainment
Abstract and Bio

December 6, 2013
Thomas Sheppard (UNC-Chapel Hill)
“To Make an Impression of Our National Character":
Civil-Military Relations and the Tripolitan War, 1801-1805
Abstract and Bio

November 24, 2013
Karen Hagemann (UNC-Chapel Hill
Heroes, Horror and Hunger:
The Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 — Experiences and Memories
Abstract and Bio

November 8, 2013
Mischa Honeck (German Historical Institute, Washington DC)
“For the Preservation of German Honor and Manhood”:
Gender and the German-American War for the Union
Abstract and Bio

October 18, 2013
Lien-Hang Nguyen (University of Kentucky)
Le Duan's Struggles:
Toward a New International History of the Vietnam War
Abstract and Bio

September 20, 2013
Erica Kuhlman (Idaho State University)
Transnational Cultures of Mourning:
War Widows and Fallen Soldiers in World War I
Abstract and Bio

April 5, 2013
Annegret Fauser (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Gender, War and Culture: Music in the US during World War II
Abstract and Bio

March 22, 2013
Kristen Neuschel (Duke University)
War during the Military Revolution: Cultural History and the Longue durée
Abstract and Bio

January 20, 2013
Kristen Dolan (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Internment Camps and the Politics of Denazification in American Occupied Germany, 1944 – 1950
Abstract and Bio

December 7, 2012
Hal Brands (Duke University)
Conspiring Bastards: Saddam Hussein's Strategic View of the United States
Abstract and Bio

November 16, 2012
Klaus Larres (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Peacemakers: Attlee - Churchill - Macmillan.
British Attempts to Settle the East-West Conflict (1945-1963)
Abstract and Bio

October 26, 2012
Sonya O. Rose
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Birkbeck College, University of London)
Gender and the Politics of Sacrifice:
Britain and the Colonial Empire in the Age of World War I
Abstract and Bio

September 14, 2012
Ariana E. Vigil (UNC-Chapel Hill)
War Narratives:
Gender, War, and Activism in Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production
Abstract and Bio

April 13, 2012
Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University)
POWs into Ukrainians:
Some Little Known Aspects of a Little Known Front in World War I
Abstract and Bio

March 23, 2012
Friederike Brühöfener (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Sending Young Men to the Barracks:
West Germany’s Struggle over the Establishment of New Armed Forces in the 1950s
Abstract and Bio

February 10, 2012
Elizabeth Shesko (Duke University)
Life and Labor in the Bolivian Barracks:
Sociability, Discipline, and the Reshaping of Inequalities
Abstract and Bio

December 2, 2011
Susanna Lee (North Carolina State University)
The Antithesis of Union Men and Confederate Rebels:
Loyal Citizenship in the Post-Civil War South
Abstract and Bio

November 29, 2011
Nadje Al-Ali (University of London)
Iraqi Women between Dictatorship, Sanctions, War and Occupation
Abstract and Bio

October 14, 2011
Andrew Byers (Duke University)
“Complete Continence Is Wholly Possible”:
The Regulation of Sexuality by the U.S. Army in France and Germany, 1917-23
Abstract and Bio

September 16, 2011
Stefan Dudink (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Restoration in Uniform: Masculinity and Monarchical Representation in Post-revolutionary Europe, 1813-1819
Abstract and Bio

April 1, 2011
Workshop
The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: Race, Gender, and Property:
The Experience of Nazi Occupation at the Local Level

February 25, 2011
Margaret Humphreys (Duke University)
The (Likely) Failure of Confederate Medicine
Abstract and Bio

January 28, 2011
Michelle Moyd (Indiana University)
Askari Ways of War: Training, Community, and Combat in German East Africa
Abstract and Bio

November 19, 2010
John W. Hall (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Washington's Irregulars: George Washington and Petite Guerre
Abstract and Bio

October 29, 2010
Thavolia Glymph (Duke University)
“Disappeared Without Any Account Being Had of Them”:
Contraband Women and the Armies of the Civil War
Abstract and Bio

September 17, 2010
Christian C. Lentz (Cornell University)
Labors of Revolution:
Counting, Accounting, and Recounting the Dien Bien Phu Campaign
Abstract and Bio

April 16, 2010
Robert Brigham (Vassar College)
Counterinsurgency and Human Rights in Iraq
Abstract and Bio

March 26, 2010
Julia Osman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
The Arsenal of Revolution:
Military Reform and the Citizen Warrior in Eighteenth-Century France
Abstract and Bio

February 26, 2010
Steven A. LeBlanc (Peabody Museum, Harvard University)
Pervasive, Deadly, and Rational: Prehistoric Warfare and its Relevance Today
Abstract and Bio

January 29, 2010
Frank Biess (University of California, San Diego)
German Angst? Fear and Anxiety in Postwar West Germany
Abstract and Bio

November 20, 2009
Anna Krylova (Duke University)
Bonded by Combat: Soviet Women and Men Sharing Violence, Authority, and Romance in Mechanized Warfare, 1942-1945
Abstract and Bio

October 30, 2009
Watson Jennison (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Defining the Borders of Freedom: Black Resistance in Southern Georgia, 1812-1818
Abstract and Bio

October 2, 2009
Laura McEnaney (Whittier College)
A State of Contradictions:
Veterans, Demobilization, and Postwar Political Culture in the United States
Abstract and Bio

April 10, 2009
Isabel Hull (Cornell University)
Imperial Germany and International Law in the Great War, 1914 - 1918
Abstract and Bio

March 20, 2009
Heather Perry (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Medicine, Technology, and the Disabled Soldier in WWI Germany
Abstract and Bio

February 20, 2009
Gregory Daddis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
A Problem of Metrics: Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness in the Vietnam War
Abstract and Bio

January 30, 2009
Michael Geyer (University of Chicago)
Genocide, Massacre, and Warfare in World War Two in Comparative Perspective
Abstract and Bio

November 21, 2008
John Lynn (University of Illinois)
Gauging Women's Participation in Early Modern European Armies:
Demonstrable Certainties, Reasonable Inferences, and Sheer Speculations
Abstract and Bio

October 24, 2008
Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Re-Constructing 'Front' and 'Home':
Gendered Experiences and Memories of the German Wars against Napoleon
Abstract and Bio

September 19, 2008
Sebastian Lukasik (Duke University)
Combat and Identity on the Western Front:
The Case of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917 - 1919
Abstract and Bio

April 18, 2008
Sigrun Haude (University of Cincinnati)
Dealing with the Reality of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648):
The Story of Two Religious Women
Abstract and Bio

March 21, 2008
Michael Sherry (Northwestern University)
Go Directly to Jail: The Punitive Turn in American Life
Abstract and Bio

February 15, 2008
Jennifer Siegel (Ohio State University)
Money, Peace and Power: Loans to Russia and the (Un)Making of the Triple Entente
Abstract and Bio

November 9, 2007
David Bell (Johns Hopkins University)
The Culture of War in the Age of Revolutions
Abstract and Bio

October 19, 2007
Jacqueline Whitt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
For God and Country:
Chaplains and Religious Practice in the United States Army in Vietnam
Abstract and Bio

September 14, 2007
Wayne Lee (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Dirk Bönker (Duke University)
Military History - Cultural History - Transnational History
Abstract and Bios

March 2, 2007
Michael Allsep (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Bridge to Reform: Elihu Root, New York Elites and Army Reform, 1898-1904
Abstract and Bio

February 9, 2007
John Thornton (Boston University)
Military Bonding and Ethnic Identity: The Kingdom of Kongo and the Americas
Abstract and Bio

January 19, 2007
Adriane Lentz-Smith (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Saving Sergeant Caldwell:
Caldwell v. Parker, WWI, and the African-American Freedom Struggle
Abstract and Bio

November 17, 2006
Thomas Kühne (Clark University)
Male Bonding and Genocidal War: Germany, 1918-1945
Abstract and Bio

October 20, 2006
Anna Krylova (Duke University)
Beyond Gender: Women in Combat at the Soviet Front, 1930s-1940s
Abstract and Bio

September 29, 2006
J. E. Lendon (University of Virginia)
Why was the Roman Imperial Army so good? Evidence from Soldiers’ Tombstones
Abstract and Bio

April 16, 2006
Mark Wilson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
The Making of a Liberal War Machine: A Reconsideration of the Truman Committee and the Politics of U.S. Industrial Mobilization for the Second World War
Abstract and Bio

March 26, 2006
Todd Berryman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Liberation through Occupation? The Case of the Kingdom of Westphalia under the Empire of Napoleon, 1807-1813
Abstract and Bio

January 22, 2006
Amy Greenberg (Penn State University)
Private Armies and Martial Masculinity: Manifest Destiny, Filibustering, and the Remaking of American Manhood, 1845-1860
Abstract and Bio

Co-sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies