Please join us on May 2, 2022 for an AfterWars Seminar presented by Alexander M. Martin. Dr. Martin is professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.  His research focuses on Russia and its relationship with Europe from the Enlightenment to the mid-19th century.  He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997); Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 (2013); and From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family’s Odyssey, 1768-1870 (2022).

In this lecture, Dr. Martin will be discussing how the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars upended life trajectories throughout Europe, with aftereffects that reverberated for many decades.  How were lives transformed, and how did the effects persist across generations?  Focusing on one family in Germany and Russia, this talk will explore how the wars and their aftermath reshaped mentalities, identities, career paths, and inter-generational relationships, with consequences that can be felt down to the present day.