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Featuring: Francine Hirsch, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Letters & Science
Date: July 29, 2014
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Arboretum Visitor Center, 1207 Seminole Highway
Professor Fran Hirsch will retell the story of the Trial of Major War Criminals at Nuremberg from the perspective of the Soviet Union. She will share newly declassified information that offers evidence of the contributions of the Soviets to the trial’s legal framework, and the shaping of postwar international law and human rights. She is currently working on a book on the same topic.
Hirsch holds degrees from Cornell and Princeton universities, and she has been on the faculty of UW-Madison since 2000. Hirsch’s first book on the Soviet Union won the prestigious Herbert Baxter Adams Book Prize of the American Historical Association (2007), Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (2006), and the Council for European Studies Book Award (co-winner 2006).