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Understanding the World: Power, Politics and Global Change
Thursday, August 13
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Main Library
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass), 1st FloorThe University of Toledo and the Toledo Public Library present Understanding the World. Gain fresh insights into the events transforming our world; from power and politics to conflict and culture.
This session is presented by Dr. Barry Jackisch, Associate Professor of History.
Barry Jackisch is an associate professor working in modern European and world history. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York-Buffalo (SUNY), and specializes in the history of Germany, antisemitism and the Holocaust, as well as comparative approaches to war, genocide, human rights, race, and the environment. His first book, The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918-1939 (Ashgate, 2012), examines an extremist antisemitic political organization independent from the Nazis and its role in destabilizing Germany’s inter-war democracy. Dr. Jackisch has also published six additional articles on topics including Nazi propaganda and the press and Berlin’s urban environment.
Main Library
- 69 Windows PCs
- 36 Windows laptops
- 16 MACs
- 20 children’s PCs
- 6 children's early learning stations
- 2 book scan stations
- Making equipment
- Free Wi-Fi
- 100 person Community Room
- 214 person Large Glass Room
- 312 person McMaster Center
- 200 person McMaster Lobby
- Faxing, copying, scanning
- ToleGo Public Bikes
- 300 parking spots (includes 9 handicapped accessible spots)
- 2 electric vehicle charging stations
- 10 bicycle spots
