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The Contemporary History Institute presents a stage reading of the play Ajax, a 2,000-year-old Greek tragedy that reveals the timelessness of the veteran experience, on Feb. 2 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema. The performance of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy from the 5th century BC using a translation […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes Dr. Felix Boecking to Ohio University to kick off CHI’s spring 2019 lecture series on Feb. 28 at 4:30 in Baker Center 242. Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese Economic and Political History at the University of Edinburgh, Boecking will present “No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and […]

The Contemporary History Institute recently welcomed Professor Amitav Acharya (American University) to Athens as the first guest in the revived Elizabeth Evans Baker Lecture series, last held in the 1980s. In front of a 170-person audience in the Baker Ballroom, he presented “Is Peace and Cooperation Possible after the Liberal […]

By Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer Associate Professor of History & Director of the Contemporary History Institute The Contemporary History Institute hosts the 2019 Baker Peace Conference on March 28-29, 2019. Our theme this year is “Temple of Peace? International Cooperation and World Order since 1945.” With this conference, we hope to […]

Ohio University history professor Mirna Zakic will talk about her forthcoming article “Hidden in Plain Sight: Jewish Children’s Survival in the Occupied Serbian Banat.” The article is related to research that Zakic conducted for her recently published book Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II. Zakic’s talk on Thursday, […]

The Contemporary History Institute presents the Elizabeth Evans Baker Endowed Lecture by Professor Amitav Acharya,”Is Peace and Cooperation Possible After the Liberal Order?,” on Nov. 29 at 7:30pm in Baker Ballroom A. The Baker Lecture is presented by the Baker Peace Studies Program and fully underwritten by an endowment of […]

Photographer, videographer and filmmaker Meg Prior recently visited Ohio University and discussed her experiences in Afghanistan and her observations on war in the 21st century through the lens of a civilian photographer. Her talk was jointly presented by the Contemporary History Institute, the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, and the CHI-administered […]