CAS/MillerComm Lecture: "From the Great War to the Bloodlands: Rethinking Europe’s History" by Timothy Snyder

• Event Date: Monday, November 10, 2014
• Time: 3:00 pm–4:30 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Europe’s early 20th century was an era of unprecedented brutality in human history–the 16 million dead of World War I followed in short order by the 60 million casualties of World War II. Historian Timothy Snyder, the foremost scholar of the period, presents his path-breaking interpretation of Europe’s Bloodlands, offering a new theory of political Violence in the modern times.

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Program in Jewish Culture and Society in conjunction with the Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of French, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Department of History, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Sociology, European Union Center, Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, and the Spurlock Museum.