About

After the lights went out in August 1914, Canada and the world would no longer be the same. One hundred years later, The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and the Munk School of Global Affairs explore the effects of the First World War through the century.

 

RELATED LINKS

Archives of Ontario online exhibit highlights artists in the First World War.

 

Events

(1)

11 NOVEMBER 2013 at 5 pm

Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place

Did Vimy Ridge Matter?

Jack Granatstein

Read the Lecture Here

 

(2)

10–11 JANUARY 2014

Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place

WWI on Film

in partnership with the Munk School of Global Affairs

Peace, Conflict & Justice Society, and the Trinity College

International Relations Society

 

(3)

27 JANUARY – 2 MAY 2014

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 120 St. George Street

We Will Do Our Part: the University of Toronto

and the Great War –

Exhibit

 

(4)

17 MARCH 2014 at 6 pm

Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front Street W

Vienna 1914-2014: Arts, Politics, and War

Panel and Performance

in partnership with the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership

 

(5)

4 APRIL 2014 at 9:30 am

Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place

Coming Home: Handel’s Hercules

Peter Sellars

in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company,

and the University of Toronto Faculty of Music

 

(6)

8 MAY 2014 at 5 pm

Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place

Death and War: Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell,

and Romain Rolland Confront the First World War

William Thorsell

 

(7)

30–31 JULY 2014

Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street W

1914 – 1918: The Making of the Modern World

Conference

 

(8)

31 JULY 2014 at 7 pm

Varsity Stadium

1914 – 1918: In Memoriam