After a successful WWII Symposium in April of 2017, the America’s Conflicts lecture series will present a second WWII Symposium focusing
on “What You Never Knew and Surprising Stories” about the Pacific Theater of War.
If you purchase Reserved Seating or Sponsorships, you will help underwrite the cost of this program. Sponsors will enjoy reserved seating
in the auditorium and an invitation to a very special reception with several of the speakers. In addition to being listed in the program as a
Sponsor, you will also receive a charitable gift letter for tax purposes.
Monday, April 16, 2018
THE ASIA-PACIFIC WAR 1937-1945: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE 21ST CENTURY
10:30am | RICHARD FRANK MIL I TA RY HISTORI A N A ND AU THOR
Richard Frank graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969, after which he served four years in the United States
Army. During the Vietnam War, he served a tour of duty as a platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division. In 1976,
he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center. Frank will explain why the Asia-Pacific War is the neglected
“other” part of World War II. It was not just a struggle between the U.S. and Japan across the Pacific, but rather a
war spanning most of Asia and touching nearly half the world’s population. In complex ways, its legacies profoundly
shape the world of the 21st century. This is a story now radically altered by an enormous leap in scholarship over the
past two decades still largely unknown to the public. This new evidence permits a fresh analysis revealing that much of the prior standard
historiography was deeply flawed or even an inversion of reality, particularly as it relates to China. And in the background of all of this is the
horrendous toll the war exacted, worse in certain aspects than the war in the Europe.
JAPAN 1941: COUNTDOWN TO INFAMY
2:00pm | ERI HOTTA AU THOR
Eri Hotta was born in Tokyo and educated in Japan, the U.S., and the U.K. She has taught at Oxford, in Tokyo,
and in Jerusalem, specializing in international relations. Her book, Japan 1941, is a groundbreaking historical
account that considers Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, certain to revolutionize how we think
of the war in the Pacific. Eri Hotta poses essential questions overlooked for the last 70 years: Why did these
men — military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor — put their country and its citizens in harm’s
way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start? Photo by: Brigitte Lacombe
EVENING COCKTAIL RECEPTION WITH SPONSORS
PROUDLY SPONSORED BY:
5:00pm
Sponsorship (6 lectures, 2 shows and cocktail party) $500 per person
Early Bird Package pricing available from September 1 to December 31, 2017
Reserved
(6 lectures + 2 shows) $400
General Admission
(6 lectures + 2 shows) $300
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Individual lecture pricing from January to April 2018
Sponsorship
$150/Lecture (includes Sponsor cocktail party)
Reserved
$60/Lecture
General Admission
$45/Lecture