Paul Miller, associate professor of history at McDaniel College, will speak about the outbreak of the First World War during “The First Shots of the First World War: The Sarajevo Assassination in History and Memory,” on Tuesday, March 11, at 4:30 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Athenaeum.
This event is free, open to the public, and no tickets are required. For more information, contact Robert Beachy, chair of Goucher’s Department of History and Historic Preservation, at rbeachy@goucher.edu.
Miller will speak of the complex series of events that began 100 years ago with the assassination of heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie.
Previously, Miller has served at the International University of Sarajevo and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Sarajevo. His first book, From Revolutionaries to Citizens, examined the anti-militarist Left in France before the First World War. Other previous projects include a documentary film on the bombing of Auschwitz debate and several articles on genocide and memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
His book It’s Nothing: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Origins of World War I is under contract with Oxford University Press, and he is working on a project on the history/memory of the Sarajevo assassination that tentatively is titled June 28, 1914: A Day in History and Memory.