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Professor Jay Winter to Speak to the Triangle Yale Club January 26, 2007

Yale Professor Jay M. Winter, recently appointed the Charles J. Stille Professor of History, is a specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century.

Current students recommended Prof. Winter as one of the most exciting and imaginative faculty members and lecturers on the Yale Campus today, and suggested we invite him for an evening in The Triangle. We did. Prof. Winter accepted and will speak to us at the University Club (map), 4200 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, on "Remembrances of War," - war as an institution of civilized man, and how one incomplete "world" war set the stage for the following major wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

His other interests include remembrances of war in the 20th century, such as memorial and mourning sites, European population decline, the causes and institution of war, British popular culture in the World War I era and the Armenian genocide of 1915.

Prof. Winter is the author or co-author of a dozen books, including Socialism and the Challenge of War, Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912-18, The Great War and the British People, The Fear of Population Decline, The Experience of World War I, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, 1914-1918: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century and his most recent, The Generation of Memory.

He has edited or co-edited 13 books and contributed more than 40 book chapters to edited volumes. Works in preparation include the second volume of "Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919. The Cultural History of Nostalgic Modernity" and "Visions and Violence: An Alternative History of the 20th Century." He has also written a number of book introductions, forewords and translations.

The historian was co-producer, co-writer and chief historian for the PBS series "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century," which won an Emmy Award in 1997.

Prof. Winter earned his BA from Columbia University and his PhD and DLitt from Cambridge University. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Warwick and the University of Cambridge before joining the faculty of Columbia University in 2000 and then the Yale faculty one year later. At Yale, his courses include seminars on modern British and comparative modern European history.

He has presented named lectures at Dartmouth College, Union University, Indiana University and the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

5:30 reception - snacks and cash bar,
6:30 Prof. Winter's talk,
7:30 optional dinner with the professor in the University Club, wine and bar continue.

The cost: $15 per person for the reception and talk, $44 total includes dinner with the professor following his talk. Make your reservations by clicking this link. Information: Bob Lesher '55, 919-553-0801

TYC Planning Meeting

Thursday, February 8, noon.
in "The Library," in the Marriott Hotel, opposite the Crabtree Mall, Raleigh Click for Map. The free lunch lives. Any member welcome. Non-alumni with business for the Club may be brought as guests. Plenty of free parking. If you plan to attend call or email Bob Lesher, 919-553-0801, for a seating count. These meetings are fixed at the second Thursday of each and every month.