Professor Leonard V. Smith's talk is titled Geography, Sovereignty, and Drawing the Boundaries of Syria after World War I.
Professor Smith, of Oberlin College, is the author of: The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War (Cornell University Press, 2007); France and the Great War, 1914-1918 (with Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker, Cambridge University Press, 2003); and Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During World War I (Princeton University Press, 1994).
He has held fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center. Smith has been a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (January 2012), Claremont McKenna College (Fall 2008, as William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow), and the Associated Kyoto Program at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan (Fall 2004).
Smith’s current monograph project, Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919: The ‘Laboratory over a Vast Cemetery,’ is under contract to Oxford University Press. His most recent publications include “Empires at the Paris Peace Conference,” in Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela, eds.,Empires at War, 1912-1923 (Oxford University Press, 2014); and “Mutiny,” in Jay Winter, ed., Cambridge History of the First World War, 3 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Olin Hall, OLIN*130 Auditorium
920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA
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