How has the Sarajevo assassination been remembered, represented and imagined since it first entered human consciousness as an act of world historical significance? By examining literature, film, monuments, museums and history writing itself, Paul Miller showed how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 has transcended history to enter the realm of mythology. Speaker Biography: Paul Miller is associate professor at McDaniel College. He earned his Ph.D. in modern European history at Yale University and his dissertation, "From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914," was published by Duke University Press in 2002. In 2004-05, he was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Sarajevo, where he wrote on, and taught, genocide issues. From 2011 to 2013, Miller was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham (U.K.), where he researched, and later published his work on, the memory of the Sarajevo assassination. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7927

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