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Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:00 AM
Subject: The Meaning of 1914: A Free Conference
To: Pascal Alter <pascal.alter@gmail.com>

The Meaning of 1914

A Conference to Mark the Centenary
of the Outbreak of The Great War

Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College, Oxford, UK
September 27–28, 2014

Vernon Bogdanor	Jörn Leonhard
Christopher Clark	Neil MacGregor
Ariel David	Margaret MacMillan
Elitza Dulguerova	Avner Offer
Max Egremont	Peter Pulzer
Christa Ehrmann-Hämmerle	Iris Rachamimov
Robert Evans	Adam Ridley
Robert Gerwarth	Eugene Rogan
Simon Head	Hew Strachan
Michael Howard	Marc Trachtenberg

Free and open to all, but registration required.

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