Yale’s Winter an IU Patten Lecturer this month

The first is scheduled Tuesday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. at Fine Arts 015. His topic will be “The Generation of Memory: Identity, History, and Narrative after the Holocaust. The second, “Shell Shock and the Cultural History of the 20th Century,” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in Rawles Hall 100.

Among Winter’s books are The Great War and the British People (1985), Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995), and Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919 (1997).

He was co-producer, co-writer and chief historian for the PBS series The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century, which won an Emmy award in 1997.