World War II lecture set April 21

2:38 p.m., April 14, 2005--A lecture on World War II by visiting scholar Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University, is set for 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 21, in Bayard Sharp Hall.

This year’s Bosley Warnock Lecture, “Keeping the World in World War II: Thoughts on the 60th Anniversary of the End of the War,” will examine World War II from an historic standpoint and relate it to the state of current global affairs.

Gluck, who specializes in modern Japan, from the late 19th Century to the present, received her bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College in 1962 and her doctorate from Columbia in 1977. She is the author of several publications on recent Japan and the role of World War II in 20th-Century history, including the forthcoming book, Versions of the Past: The Japanese and Their Modern History.

The free event, which is cosponsored by UD’s East Asia Studies Program and several other campus units, is open to the public. For more information, call (302) 831-8413.

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