Saturday, September29 8:00 AM Shuttle from Hancock hotel to Michigan Tech Memorial Union 8:00—9:00AM Coffee and muffins, Alumni Room, Memorial Union 8:45 AM Welcome, Symposium Committee 9:00—10:00AM Session 1a Contestations over Loyalties and Identities Conflicted Loyalties: Austro-Hungarian Immigrants in Michigan and the Great War — Robert Goodrich (Northern
Dr. Sue Collins Talk on September 28 at 4pm Orpheum Theater, Hancock “Local Theaters, Propaganda, & WWI” During the war, local theaters were key spaces to capture audiences’ attention – they were ripe venues for government and civil groups’ propaganda. Posters in lobbies, Four Minute Men
Dr. Lynn Dumenil Talk on September 29 at 12pm Memorial Union Building, MTU “Women & the Great War” Professor Dumenil’s talk focuses on popular culture images of women in World War I. That conventional notions of womanhood persisted suggests the continuing power of expectations about
Dr. Hilary Virtanen Talk on September 14 at 7pm Finnish American Heritage Center, FU History is often told through the stories of those considered the winners: those who won the war, those who controlled another group of people, those who are able to speak of their
Dan Truckey Talk on June 21 Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw “U.P. Polar Bears in WWI” Mr. Truckey’s talk discusses the nearly 100 U.P. men, known as the Polar Bears, who served in the Northern Russia Expeditionary Force during the winter of 1918-1919. “This little
Dr. Brett Gary Constitution Day Talk and Opening Reception of WW1CC on September 13 from 4-6pm Van Pelt and Opie Library East Reading Room “World War I Speech Catastrophes and the Postwar Struggle for Free Political and Sexual Speech” The wartime Espionage and Sedition Acts
Dr. Patty Sotirin Talk on November 6, doors open 6pm, talk begins 6:15 Carnegie Museum, Houghton “Copper Country Mothers” Copper Country mothers of sons in military service were critical figures in this area’s participation in the Great War. For these mothers, the war was a
Dr. Stefka Hristova Talk on September 7 from 5-7pm Rosza Gallery, MTU “Iconography of War” World War I called for broad public participation through multiple avenues: joining the military, buying liberty bonds or war stamps, conserving food, taking up a public job. Everyone was expected
Dr. John H. Morrow, Jr. Talk on September 28 at 7:30 pm Rozsa Lobby, MTU “The African American Experience in World War I & Aftermath” The First World War occurred at the height of white supremacy, segregation, and lynching and race riots in the United