{"id":1958,"date":"2024-06-12T18:16:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/?post_type=showcase&#038;p=1958"},"modified":"2024-06-13T10:38:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:38:23","slug":"season-5-episode-6-does-it-matter-legacies-of-the-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"showcase","link":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-6-does-it-matter-legacies-of-the-first-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 5, Episode 6: &#8220;Does It Matter?&#8221;: Legacies of the First World War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#4d4d4e\">Nationalism. Emerging technology. Militarization. Destroyed bodies. Total war. In this episode, three historians reconsider the dominant themes of the First World War\u2014which are as relevant today as they were a century ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_16-9-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of a devastated landscape, pocked with rain-filled shell-holes. A shattered tree stands to the right, the tree and the whole foreground dominated by a dense web of barbed wire. The sky is a dramatic contrast between white and purplish, red-colored clouds.\" class=\"wp-image-1960\" style=\"width:1000px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_16-9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_16-9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_16-9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_16-9-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_16-9-1568x882.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Paul_Nash_Wire_16-9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Wire<\/em>, Paul Nash, 1918. (Imperial War Museums, \u00a9 IWM (Art.IWM ART 2705))<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Season 5, Episode 6: &quot;Does It Matter?&quot;: Legacies of the First World War\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/1mU1mt7TEjvs9jG8FaueN2?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/reverb-effect\/id1486434428\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4Otp5KrKnJYZVd1S8guPe6?si=UC24WtvISZaa_B_7JbXrIA\">Spotify<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nationalism. Emerging technology. Militarization. Destroyed bodies. Total war. In this episode, three historians reconsider the dominant themes of the First World War\u2014which are as relevant today as they were a century ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cheyenne Pettit<\/strong> studies Canadian and British conflicts over the treatment of venereal disease during World War One. <strong>Matthew Hershey<\/strong>&#8216;s research explores meanings and experiences of soldiers\u2019 suicide in the First World War. And <strong>Lediona Shahollari <\/strong>focuses on the 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange during the partition of those two states in the aftermath of the Great War. Join them in a conversation reflecting on the legacy of that conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-6-transcript\/\" data-type=\"showcase\" data-id=\"1957\">View the full episode transcript<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"historian-biography\">Historian Biographies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew Hershey <\/strong>completed his PhD in history at the University of Michigan in May 2024. His dissertation, \u201cInclination toward Death: Suicide, Sacrifice, and State Collapse in First World War Germany,\u201d situates the history of wartime self-destruction within the context of Germans\u2019 dynamic socio-cultural, moral, and emotional experiences with death, violence, and killing, and charts the effects of these experiences on the ultimate collapse of the Imperial German state in 1918. Now an independent historian and research contractor, he is currently contributing to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cheyenne Pettit <\/strong>is a seventh-year PhD candidate in history and science, technology, and society at the University of Michigan. She is a medical historian of the British Empire with a special interest in Canadian and Dominion history. Her research focuses on the intersections of medicine, law, and policing. Her dissertation,&nbsp;&#8220;Tempting the Nation:&nbsp;Imperial Belonging and the Politics of Syphilis in Canada\u2019s Great War, 1914-1920,&#8221;<em>&nbsp;<\/em>uses controversies over the wartime treatment of venereal disease in the metropole to interrogate the nature, scope, and limits of the British Empire. Her&nbsp;project grounds shifts in the body politic in a new history of public health. As the Gerald Saxon Brown Digital Skills Fellow, Cheyenne will produce the 2024-25 season <em>Reverb Effect<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lediona Shahollari<\/strong> is a seventh-year PhD candidate in history at the University of Michigan. She is a historian of Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on Albania and Albanian-speaking refugees. Her research focuses on questions of displacement, citizenship, resettlement, and the Ottoman imperial legacy in the Balkans. Her dissertation traces the broader regional impacts of the 1923 Greco-Turkish population exchange and how the mass displacement and movement shaped the formation of Albania\u2019s early citizenship and migration regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-73bb91bf alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-853e0c80\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-c47edbf1 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/IMG_1619-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Three individuals, each seated in front of a microphone.\" class=\"uag-image-1967\" width=\"514\" height=\"260\" title=\"IMG_1619\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\" \/><figcaption class=\"uagb-image-caption\">From left, Lediona Shahollari, Cheyenne Pettit, and Mathew Hershey recording their conversation in a media production room at the Shapiro Design Lab. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-dc09afca\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-ac422def wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/IMG_1643-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-1970\" width=\"517\" height=\"290\" title=\"IMG_1643-1\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\" \/><figcaption class=\"uagb-image-caption\">From left: Episode producers Lediona Shahollari, Paige Newhouse, Cheyenne Pettit, Mathew Hershey.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"production-credits\">Production Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Episode Producers:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Matthew Hershey, Paige Newhouse, Cheyenne Pettit, Lediona Shahollari<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Host and Season Producer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Paige Newhouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Executive Producer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Gregory Parker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editorial Board:&nbsp;<\/strong>Henry Cowles, Enrieth Martinez Palacios, Talitha Pam, Cheyenne Pettit, Sophie Wunderlich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Voice Actor:<\/strong> Kat Brausch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> Eguana, &#8220;Wind In Wheat Fields&#8221; (Endless Quest Media)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Share your thoughts about&nbsp;<em>Reverb Effect<\/em>&nbsp;by messaging&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:reverb.effect@umich.edu\">reverb.effect@umich.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 2024 Regents of the University of Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalism. 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