Hesburgh Lecture Series

World War Iand the Birth of the Twentieth Century
Thursday, March 5
6 p.m. Complimentary Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres
7 p.m. Lecture and Discussion
The Donnelly Center, Aquinas College

All are welcome! Free and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to [email protected]

John Deak, associate professor of History at the University of Notre Dame will be the speaker. Professor Deak specializes in the history of Modern Central Europe and the First World War. His first book, a political history of the Austrian Civil Service, received the Austrian State Prize for Social History in 2018. He is currently finishing a book (with Dr. Jonathan Gumz) on the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire in the First World War and starting another on a fatal encounter between a Dutch composer and a Hungarian army officer in the Swiss resort of Davos, 1909.

The Hesburgh Lecture Series is presented by the Notre Dame Club of Grand Rapids and cosponsored by Catholic Studies at Aquinas College.