RTF lecture invitation: Poets and the Origins of World War I - Sunday Aug 30 at 2pm ETSpeaker: Hall Gardner
This Sunday at 2pm Eastern Time, Professor Hall Gardner will deliver a presentation on the importance of breaking the dividing wall separating arts and geopolitics. While presenting the ways poets and intellectuals such as Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen and other interpreted the geopolitics of the time before and during the so-called Great War, the discussion will seek to explode several myths about the origins of World War I The first myth is that the world was sleep walking into the war. The second is that German militarism caused the war. A third myth, that really developed after the Bolshevik revolution, was that it was impossible to negotiate with the Russians despite the formation of the 1907 Anglo-Russian entente. And a fourth myth was that there was no political alternatives to war. Speaker Bio: Hall Gardner is a professor in the Department of International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Paris, whose many books can be purchased here, and whose essays and poetry are found here. His official website is www.hallgardner.com Click the zoom link below to access the live lecture:... Subscribe to Rising Tide Foundation to unlock the rest.Become a paying subscriber of Rising Tide Foundation to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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