Angelo State History Department to Host Great War Lecture Series

SAN ANGELO, Texas- A press release for Angelo State University has announce that the ASU Department of History will host the next installment of its Great War Centennial Commemoration Lecture Series on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7:00 p.m.

The lecture will be held in the Houston Harte University Center, 191 Rosemont Dr.

ASU professor of English, Dr. Mark Hama will be discussing how World War I influenced poetry and literature in his presentation, “The Was Poets: British Poetry and the Impact of the Great War.”

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The lecture will be given in the University Center’s C.J. Davidson Conference Center and is open and free to the public.

This lecture will be the second of three events in the Great War Centennial Commemoration Lecture Series this fall.

The third event will be held in November. Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 7:00 p.m., “Wristwatches, Intelligence Tests and Hemingway: The Cultural Impact of World War I on America,” will be open to the public.

Dr. Jennifer Keenee, chair of the history Department at Chapman University in Orange, California will discuss the cultural impact of the Great War on American life.

September 2015 was the beginning of this three-year lecture. The lecture is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. The series commemorates World War I, also known as the Great War, and is co-organized by Dr. Christine Lamberson and Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai of ASU’s history faculty. It is also co-sponsored by the ASU West Texas Collection.