{"id":7211,"date":"2014-01-17T02:42:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:05","slug":"geyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=7211","title":{"rendered":"Reckford Lecture to examine legacy of World War I"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2015<\/a>(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.) <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n

Eksteins will discuss the \u201cThe Great War: The Great Divide\u201d at 6:45 p.m.<\/strong> 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\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

Eksteins\u2019s discussion is a part of the \u201cWorld War I: The Legacy\u201d initiative sponsored by the Institute and King\u2019s College London that spans the 2014-2015 academic year.<\/p>\n

In his talk, Eksteins will examine how World War I evoked a \u201ccrisis of authority\u201d 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 \u201cRites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age\u201d, a cultural history of World War I.<\/p>\n

Read more.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

University of Chicago historian Michael Geyer will discuss the legacy of World War I in a free public lecture Feb. 20 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[24,2119,2120,2121],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-carolina","tag-geyer","tag-the-great-war","tag-wwi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47175,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions\/47175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}