Coffee will be served at 3:30pm. The event will start at 4:00pm.
Book Launch
Co-edited by Bruno Cabanes and Cameron Givens, Globalizing the History of the World Wars (Cambridge University Press 2026) is an edited volume that explores the promises and limits of applying the global turn to the twentieth century’s two signature armed conflicts. The work pays close attention to the following themes: the broad diffusion of models of total war; the development of international law and transnational humanitarianism; colonial and racial encounters; and competing and contested processes of memory-making.
Speakers
Bruno Cabanes is the Donald G. and Mary A. Dunn Chair in Modern Military History. Prior to coming to Ohio State, he taught for nine years at Yale University. Cabanes is a historian of 20th century Europe, and more specifically, the social and cultural history of war. He is particularly interested in the period of transition that followed World War I. He has analyzed this topic from a variety of angles: the demobilization of combat troops, the traumatic impact of war on soldiers and civilians, a comparative study of the different post-war periods in the 20th century, and, more recently, the environmental history of war and its aftermath.
Cameron Givens is the H. Ross Perot Postdoctoral Fellow at Southern Methodist University. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in Modern American History, The Journal of American Ethnic History, and 20 & 21: Revue d’histoire, a French journal of modern history. Shorter essays have been published in TIME magazine and the Washington Post. He has also presented portions of his research in the U.S. and abroad, including at the meetings of the International Research Center of the Historial de la Grande Guerre (Europe’s leading institution for the study of the First World War), the American Historical Association, the Society for Military History, and the International Society for First World War Studies, among others.
About the International History Seminar
If you are interested in attending this semester’s events and joining the International History Seminar, please send an email confirming your interest to the Hayes Chair Graduate Research Associate at hayeschairgra@osu.edu, and you will be included on the mailing list going forward. Materials will only be pre-circulated to people on the mailing list.