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Upcoming Events
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Annual Events
Alfred and Johanna Hurley Military History Seminar
The Alfred and Johanna Hurley Military History Seminar is now well into its fourth decade, offering cutting-edge discussions on issues of national security and military history every fall. The seminar was conceived by UNT President and retired Air Force General Dr. Al Hurley in 1983. Its original concept was to move fluidly between the battlefield and the academy by teaming a "scholar" with a "warrior”—a veteran of the conflict in question—in each seminar, allowing both to showcase their expertise and promote greater discussion on specific issues. The seminar continues in that spirit and has added new dimensions by adding historians and national security officials to the pool of speakers in order broaden the seminar’s discussions.
Past seminars have featured speakers such as former CENTCOM Commander General Anthony Zinni ("The General's Dilemma: Aligning Warfighting With Politics, from the American Revolution to the War in Afghanistan"), Oxford's Chichele Professor of the History of War Dr. Hew Strachan ("The British Army in Iraq and Afghanistan"), Sir Michael Howard ("War Among The Peoples"), Dr. Sean McMeekin ("The War of the Ottoman Succession: Re-Examining the First World War a Hundred Years Later"), retired Australian colonel and counter-insurgency expert Dr. David Kilcullen ("The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One"), and Dr. Victor Davis Hanson ("The Significance of Ancient Warfare for the Present and the Future”).
Year in and year out, for over forty years, the Hurley Seminar has balanced in-depth discussions of current wars with new interpretations of important historical questions such as the future of NATO, German combat power in World War II, the national security implications of the Kennedy assassination, and the origins of World War I. Join us!
- War Studies Symposium
- Mexican American History Lecture Series
- Women's History Lecture Series
- Black History Lecture Series
- Annual Alumni and Friends event
