TALK: Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9/11
John Dower (MIT)
Thursday, February 5 / 4PM / FREE
Campbell Hall, UCSB

Elting E. Morrison Professor of History at MIT, John Dower will explore the parallels between “world re-making” in the Pacific after World War II and similar efforts in the Middle East after 9/11. Professor Dower is a specialist in modern Japan and U.S.-Japan relations. His most recent book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (2000), won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award in nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize in American history, the John K. Fairbank Prize in Asian history and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history.

Co-Sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures and the IHCAmerica and The Reshaping of a New World Order

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