War and Intimacy (Spring Schedule)

2015 Burdick-Vary Schedule:   The Institute for Research in the Humanities is proud to sponsor a year-long series of lectures exploring the intimate bonds fostered by the experience of war in the twentieth century.   January 29, 4:00 pm John Hall, UW–Madison: “The Intimacies of Ethnocide: Preserving Male Honor in the ‘Unholy’ Wars of Indian Removal” February 26, 4:00 pm Tara Zahra, University of Chicago: “Exodus from the East: Emigration and the Making of the Free World, 1889-Present” March 12, 4:00 pm Daniel Ussishkin, UW–Madison: “War Stories: The Military and the Social in Modern Imperial Britain” April 9, 4:00 pm Dan Healey, St Antony’s College: “Thinking Again about Love and Death in Russia, 1914-1922”   This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities , the George L. Mosse Program in History, Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History, and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA).