The National World War I Museum, Kansas City, USA, is to host “a symposium on the political, social, economic, cultural, and military events between 1870 and 1913, leading to the Great War 1914-1918”.
It is being organised by the World War One Historical Association and its president, George Thompson.
The symposium will be held on 8th-9th November 2013 and will consider changes in pre-war European and American societies, which may have had a bearing on the outbreak of the conflict.
The analysis of such topics aims to provide an “understanding of the pre-war environment that caused a sequence of events that led to the First World War”.
Speakers at the symposium include:
Gary Armstrong – William Jewell College
Ross Collins – University of North Dakota
Richard Hamilton – Ohio State University
Martha Hanna – University of Colorado
Holger Herwig – University of Calgary
John Kuehn – Command and General Staff College
Nicholas Murray – Command and General Staff College
Michael Neiberg – U.S. War College
Pierre Purseigle – Yale University
Michael Reynolds – Princeton University
Source: World War One Historical Association website
Images courtesy of the National World War I Museum
Posted by: Daniel Barry, Centenary News