[Uwhistory] Lecture on Political Symbolism in German Art (fwd)

[Lori Anthony]

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Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:34:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Findlay <jfindlay at u.washington.edu>
To: historyfac at u.washington.edu
Cc: Lori Anthony <anthonyl at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Lecture on Political Symbolism in German Art

The Department of History presents "FORESTS, ARMOR, AND SWASTIKAS: 
POLITICAL SYMBOLISM IN GERMAN ART, 1800-2000," a lecture by Jonathan 
Osmond, Cardiff University, Wales, on Tuesday 16 May, 3:30-5:00 p.m., in 
Smith Hall 102.

Jonathan Osmond is Professor of Modern European History and Head of the 
Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Wales.  He 
is the author of _Rural Protest in the Weimar Republic: The Free Peasantry 
in the Rhineland and Bavaria_ (1993) and the editor of books on German 
reunification and on Communism and society in East Germany, 1945-71. After 
publishing extensively on German agriculture, peasants, and the end of the 
German Democratic Republic, he turned his attention to German art and its 
relationship to modernism. "Forests, Armor, and Swastikas" is an 
illustrated lecture based on this recent research.

Professor Osmond is visiting Seattle in order to facilitate an academic 
exchange between the Cardiff School of History and Archaeology and the UW 
Department of History.  The exchange is supported by the Filaretos Fotas 
Fund, a very generous bequest to History from Claire Wheeler McLaren.