Postcards from the Trenches

Events in Houston, TX

Exhibition and exhibition talks are free and open to the public.
Because of limited seating, please RSVP to 713-522-4652 for talks held at The Printing Museum.
October 23Opening reception with remarks by Dean Bill Monroe, The Honors College, University of Houston, and Deputy Consul General Clemens Kroll, German Consulate General – Houston. The Printing Museum, 6:30–8:30 pm.
October 29Talk by Steven Fenberg, "Give Until It Hurts: Jesse Jones, Houston, and World War I," The Honors College Commons, 4:00 pm.
October 30Talk by Steven Fenberg, "Give Until It Hurts: Jesse Jones, Houston and World War I," The Printing Museum, 7:00 pm.

Steven Fenberg is the author of Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the Common Good, and the executive producer and writer of Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? The Story of Jesse H. Jones, an Emmy Award-winning documentary that was narrated by Walter Cronkite and broadcast on PBS.

November 6Talk by Jay Winter, “The First World War: A Transnational Approach,” The Printing Museum, 7:00 pm.
November 7Talk by Jay Winter, “Shell Shock and the Emotional History of the First World War,” University of Houston, CEMO 100D, 1:00 pm.

Jay Winter, Yale University, is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History and 12 additional works on WWI. He is also the co-writer and co-director of the 8-part documentary produced by the BBC and The Imperial War Museum, The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century.

November 19Talk by Michael Lasser, “’The Yanks Are Coming’ (Eventually): How Popular Songs Expressed America's Changing Attitudes, 1914-1919,” University of Houston, Honors College Commons, 4:00 pm.
November 20Talk by Michael Lasser, "’Smile the While You Kiss Me Sad Adieu’: The Love Songs of WWI,” The Printing Museum, 7:00 pm.

Michael Lasser is the host of “Fascinatin’ Rhythm,” the nationally syndicated radio program that explores American history through music. He is the co-author of American Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley and author of America’s Songs: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years.


Past Events (Washington, DC)

August 19Opening remarks by Professor Marion Deshmukh, co-curator of the exhibit, and comments by the Honorable Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Peter Wittig; Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 6:00-8:30 pm.
September 9"From Fact to Allegory and Beyond: Images of the First World War," Keynote presentation by Prof. Peter Paret (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Emeritus); Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 6:00-8:30 pm.
September 23"Poetry Witnesses Wars from the Civil War to World War I: Readings and audience discussion with Profs. David Gewanter (Georgetown University) and Peter Beicken (University of Maryland); Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 6:00-8:30 pm.

“Film Captures the Great War”: Film series held at the Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC

August 18Käthe Kollwitz: Images of a Life, with discussion following the film, 6:30 pm.
August 25The Lost Angel (Ernst Barlach), with discussion following the film, 6:30 pm.
September 15Paths of Glory, with discussion following the film, 6:30 pm.
Goethe-Institut
Phone: 202-289-1200