WWII Lecture from Prominent WWII Historian at AU
Date: 09/05/2025
Time: 03:00 pm-04:45 pm
Location: Ashland University Hugo Young Theatre and Ronk Lecture Hall
Organizer: Ashbrook Center
Cost: Free
Contact and more info:
conference@ashbrook.org
https://www.ashland.edu/event/victory-and-defeat-final-months-world-war-ii
About the event:
To honor the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day, join us for “Victory and Defeat: The Final Months of World War II,” hosted by the Ashbrook Center. The entire conference is free and open to the public, including a showing of “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1947) at The Ashland.
The conference will kick off with a keynote lecture from Robert Citino (National WWII Museum) at 3pm on Friday, September 5. Citino is an award-winning military historian and scholar specializing in WWII and 20th-century Military History. The keynote will take place in the Hugo Young Theatre, followed by the movie showing at The Ashland.
The conference will continue on Saturday, September 6 at 9:00AM in Ronk Lecture Hall of the Schar College of Education building. The panels will feature nationally-known Historians from the US Army War College, National Defense University, US Air Command & Staff College, Baylor University, Cedarville University, Carthage College, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and Ashland University. Dr. John Moser (Ashland University, History Channel) is heading the conference.
A closing keynote lecture will take place at 2:45pm in the Ronk Lecture Hall with Richard Frank, a US Army Veteran and internationally renowned expert on the Pacific war. His keynote is titled “Looking Back 80 Years on the Moral and Factual Realities of Ending the War with Japan.”