(NOTE: THE TIME OF THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN MOVED UP TO 6:45 P.M. FROM THE ORIGINAL START TIME OF 7:30 P.M. DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER.) University of Toronto professor emeritus of history Modris Eksteins will discuss the legacy of World War I in a free public lecture Feb. 25 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Eksteins will discuss the “The Great War: The Great Divide” at 6:45 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room in Wilson Library for the 2015 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture. A Q&A session and reception will follow. The talk is sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Eksteins’s discussion is a part of the “World War I: The Legacy” initiative sponsored by the Institute and King’s College London that spans the 2014-2015 academic year.
In his talk, Eksteins will examine how World War I evoked a “crisis of authority” in the Western world. This crisis, evident in politics and daily life, also had a dramatic impact on the arts. Eksteins is the author of “Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age”, a cultural history of World War I.
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