Gwynne Dyer lecture “What the First World War Taught Us”

Date(s): Wednesday, October 22
Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: : Abbotsford Campus

What the First World War Taught Us

Lecture with Gwynne Dyer in Abbotsford, B101

One hundred years ago, Canada sent almost a million soldiers overseas to fight in a war that didn’t threaten us in any way. Almost a quarter of those soldiers were killed or wounded. In a country that then had only eight million people, that tragedy left scars that never really healed. Our attitudes to war and our whole foreign policy are still shaped, for good and for ill, by the First World War, and it’s high time to reconsider them.

Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years, but he was originally trained as an historian. Born in Newfoundland, he received degrees from Canadian, American and British universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London. He served in three navies and held academic appointments at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Oxford University before launching his twice-weekly column on international affairs, which is published by over 175 papers in some 45 countries.

The Gwynne Dyer lecture hosted by UFV’s College of Arts.