This roundtable of internationally-renowned scholars will ask what we still do not know about the causes of the First World War.

The majority of lectures and conferences marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War will be examining why the conflict occurred, concentrating on particular sets of events leading to war or on different aspects of the war's course, character and consequences. By contrast, the emphasis of this roundtable discussion – and claim to originality – will be on continuing areas of uncertainty in the historical account of the outbreak of war: it will show how key decisions are still 'unexplained', allowing a variety of interpretations.

Speakers:  Margaret MacMillan (Oxford) | Sönke Neitzel (LSE) | Annika Mombauer (Open University) | John Röhl (Sussex)

Chair:  Mark Hewitson (UCL)

Venue:  German Historical Institute, Seminar Room 17, Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ , UK

Date: 18 June 2014, 6pm

Please email Dr Mark Hewitson (m.hewitson@ucl.ac.uk) to register.

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Contact:

Dr Mark Hewitson

Senior Lecturer in German History and Politics

University College London

Telephone: 0207 679 3038

Email: m.hewitson@ucl.ac.uk