Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe

Speaker:

James Sheehan

13 Sep 2007

8:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

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James Sheehan began teaching modern European history at Stanford in 1979 and is now Dickason Professor in the Humanities, a senior fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and the Paul Davies Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. He is the recipient of four teaching awards, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Humboldt Research Prize, and an NEH fellowship. Sheehan's books include Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe (forthcoming), Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism, German History, 1770-1866, and German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century. President of the American Historical Association in 2005, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy in Berlin, a corresponding fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Phi Beta Kappa Lecture.

---- This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.