Town & Gown Forum: The Long Shadow of the “Great War”

Event date, time, and location

March 26, 2010
10:00–11:30AM
407 Kress Gallery

Event description

Join KU faculty members and scholars for a series of gallery presentations about the Spencer’s exhibition Machine in a Void: The First World War and the Graphic Arts / Stephen Goddard - Senior Curator, Spencer Museum of Art; Professor, Department of the History of Art -- Moderator Presenters include: William Woods - Professor, Department of Geography; Courtesy Professor, Department of Anthropology, on "War and the Tortured Landscape." Roberta Pergher - Assistant Professor, Department of History, on "Reflections or Refractions? Myths of war experience in postwar European societies." Nathan Wood - Assistant Professor, Department of History on "Dreams of Speed, Visions of Death: Art and War in the Machine Age." James Grauerholz - Independent Scholar; Courtesy Lecturer, American Studies Program on "Moloch's Apocalypse: The Rise of the Killing Machines."

Co-sponsors: Spencer Museum of Art and Hall Center for the Humanities