Event
Lecture | The Tragedy of the Tet Offensive
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 17:30to19:00
McLennan Library Building
Colgate Seminar Room, Rare Books and Special Collections (4th floor), 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
Fifty years after the Vietnam war, historians are able to reflect on its larger meaning for Vietnamese and global history. What motivated the Vietnamese communists to start the offensive?聽 How did it affect the country? And how did the world react to it?聽Professor Lorenz L眉thi from the Department of History and Classical Studies explores this seminal event.
This lecture is now full. To be placed on the waiting list, please email roaar.library [at] mcgill.ca
鈥婰ight reception to follow.
Presented by the Department of History and Classical Studies聽in collaboration with聽Rare & Special Collections, Osler, Art, and Archives聽(ROAAr).
This event is聽supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
