Responsable : Audra Bullard

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The modern world was born of German hunger, or at least the fear of it. From the birth of Germany in 1871, German statesmen, military leaders, and scientists fretted over the country’s substantial reliance on imported food. This talk uncovers the forgotten story of how German hunger was integral to the terrible tragedies of the twentieth century – chiefly, two world wars and the Holocaust – but it also touches on how Germans’ efforts to mitigate this problem led to positive outcomes, like the discovery of the Haber-Bosch Process and the creation of the European Union.

 

Dr. Jordan Kuck is associate professor of history and chair of Humanities at Brevard College. He is an expert on the modern history of Northeastern Europe, and his research deals with the history of nationalism and authoritarianism in the Baltic States during the interwar period. Dr. Kuck has published chapters in edited volumes that marked the centennial of Latvian independence and contributed chapters to three recent or forthcoming books, “Dictatorship and Daily Life in Twentieth Century Europe,” “Transnational and Transatlantic Fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe, 1918–2018,” and “Food and Food Policies under 20th-Century European Dictatorships.” Dr. Kuck is currently working on a manuscript on the Kārlis Ulmanis regime in Latvia. He has given high-profile public talks, including as a spotlight speaker for the World Affairs Council’s national conference in Washington, D.C. In support of his research, he received a Fulbright, a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, as well as a grant from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.

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