Event Date: March 31, 2016 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Desmarais Building, room 12102, 55 Laurier Ave
Presented by CIPS and the Middle East Series in collaboration with the International Development Student’s Association at the University of Ottawa
Light refreshments will be served
Free. In English. Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis
Dr. Nikolas Gardner, Royal Military College of Canada, panelist
Dr. Pat Walsh, author of ‘Britain’s Great War on Turkey: An Irish Perspective’, pannelist
Dr. Gokhan Çetinsaya Istanbul Sehir University, Moderator
The Battle of Kut-al Amara in 1916 was a defining moment in the British campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. It’s significance reverberate today.
This panel will provide a historical perspective on the Battle of Kut-al Amara while addressing its contemporary implications today.
Dr. Nikolas Gardner is the author of The Siege of Kut-al-Amara: At War in Mesopotamia, 1915-16 (2014), and Trial by Fire: Command in the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 (2003). He has also published numerous book chapters and articles in a variety of journals including War in History, The Journal of Military History, the Journal of Contemporary History, The Historian, and the Journal of the Middle East and Africa. His current research project examines the role of private contractors in British foreign policy in the Middle East during the 1970s.
Dr. Pat Walsh teaches at Assumption Grammar School in Ballynahinch, Ireland and received a BSc (Hons.) from the University of London and a PhD from Queen’s University, Belfast. He has written a number of books on the period of the Great War including ‘Britain’s Great War On Turkey, 1914 – 24, An Irish perspective’ (2009), ‘The Armenian Insurrection and the Great War’ (2015), and ‘The Rise and fall of Imperial Ireland – Redmondism in the context of Britain’s Conquest of South Africa and its Great War on Germany, 1899-1916’ (2003).
Dr. Gokhan Çetinsaya received his doctorate from the University of Manchester where he won the Malcolm H. Kerr Social Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Award and is currently a professor at the City University of Istanbul. Previously he worked at University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (2001), Free University of Berlin (2004) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2007-2008) . He is an expert on the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (19th and 20th centuries), Middle Eastern History and Politics (19th and 20th centuries) and Turkish Foreign Policy.
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