ASU to Host Great War Lecture

Angelo State University’s History Department will continue its Great War Centennial Commemoration Lecture Series with “In Sarajevo’s Shadow: World War I and the Lessons of History” on Tuesday, April 26, in the Houston Harte University Center, 1910 Rosemont Drive.

Dr. Adam R. Seipp, professor and director of graduate studies in history at Texas A&M University, will speak at 7 p.m. in the University Center’s C.J. Davidson Conference Center. He will explore the many lessons that policymakers, since 1918, believe they have learned from the experience of World War I, ultimately raising the question of whether history can “teach” anything at all. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Seipp joined the Texas A&M history faculty in 2005 and earned his doctorate the same year from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on war and social change in modern Germany.

As a published author, Seipp’s most recent book is titled “Strangers in Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952.” This book was published in 2013 by Indiana University Press. He also is the 2015-16 A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation.

The three-year lecture series, which began in September 2015, is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant No. AC-226771-15. The series commemorates World War I, also known as the Great War, and is co-organized by Dr. Christine Lamberson and Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai of ASU’s history faculty.

Required disclaimer: Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For more information, contact the History Department at 325-942-2324 or [email protected], or go online to www.angelo.edu/dept/history/great-war.