NEWS & EVENTS

The Annual Gunther E. Rothenberg Seminar in Military History Brings Napoleon Scholars to HPU (November 2006). Gunther E. Rothenberg was a world-renowned military historian. He authored scores of books and articles on a wide-range of military history with particular emphasis on the Habsburg Empire and the Napoleonic Wars. He was a Professor of History at Purdue University until his retirement in 1999 when he moved to Australia where until 2001 he was a Visiting Fellow at the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. From July 2001 until his death in April 2004, he was a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of History at the Australian Defense Force Academy.

Featured Speakers of the 2007 Gunther E. Rothenberg Seminar in Military History

This year's two-day conference featured four leading scholars:

"The Napoleonic Wars in a Global Context."
Jeremy Black
Professor of History
University of Exeter

"Reform and Stability: Prussia's Military Dialectic from Hubertusburg to Waterloo."
Dennis Showalter
Professor of History
Colorado College

"Military Effectiveness in the Armies of 1813."
Robert Epstein
Professor of History
School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and Staff College at Fort Leavenworth

"Napoleon as a Strategist."
Charles Esdaile
Professor of History
University of Liverpool

Details and complete video recordings of the seminar are available on the event's website: http://www.highpoint.edu/conferences/rothenberg/.