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RESEARCH TRIANGLE SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE MILITARY, WAR, AND SOCIETY
| What | Lecture |
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| When |
Fri, April 10 @ 04:00PM from 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm |
| Where | UNC Institute for the Arts & Humanities, Hyde Hall |
| Contact Name | Karen Hagemann |
| Contact Email | hagemann@unc.edu |
| Contact Phone | 919-962-3960 |
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and the North Carlina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series presents Isabel V. Hull (Cornell University): "Imperial Germany and International Law in the Great War, 1914 - 1918,"
In cooperation with:
- the Triangle Institute for Security Studies,
- the North Carolina German Studies Seminar Series
2:00-3:30 pm READING SEMINAR (A REGISTRATION IS NECESSARY)
4:00-6:00 pm PUBLIC LECTURE
Ninety years after the end of World War I we have largely forgotten how central international law was to the contemporaries, both regarding how the war was actually fought and what peoples and nations thought they were fighting for. This talk is based on a research project comparing Germany, Britain, and France and their decisions on how to fight the war. After a brief summary of the peculiarities of international law, it examines why law was so important during the Great War and then focuses on Imperial Germany, which the Allies successfully branded as an outlaw. Was Germany really so distant from the rest of the European world in its understanding of the laws of war? The keeper of the laws inside the government was the Foreign Office. How successful was it in pressuring military leaders to conduct the war according to the Hague Rules? When did it bow to claims of military necessity and why?
Isabel V. Hull is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. She specializes in German history from 1700 to 1945, with a focus on socio-politics, political theory, and gender/sexuality. Her most recent books are: Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (2005); The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1918 (2004); Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815 (1996).
In the READING SEMINAR students and faculty will discuss with Isabell Hull her book:
Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Ithaca, 2005) We recommend that everybody has read its introdcution.
A REGISTRATION FOR THE READING SEMINAR IS NECESSARY.
Please contact until Friday March 31, 2009: Friederike Bruehoefener (fbruehoe@email.unc.edu) for the registration.
For more information see the website: http://www.unc.edu/mhss/.
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The ORGANIZERS of the History of the Military, War and Society Seminar are:
- Dirk Boenker (Duke University)
- Karen Hagemann (UNC at Chapel Hill)
- Wayne Lee (UNC at Chapel Hill)
in cooperation with
- Friederike Bruehoefener (UNC at Chapel Hill)
- Andrew Byers (Duke University)
- Joseph Glatthaar (UNC at Chapel Hill)
- Richard Kohn (UNC at Chapel Hill)
- Anna Krylova (Duke University)
- Susanna Lee (NC State)
- Alex Roland (Duke University)