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Celebration of Life: Martin Sherwin
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Family, friends, colleagues and students will offer remembrances of Martin J. Sherwin, followed by a panel on his scholarship. A live stream of the event will be available, please RSVP to receive a reminder shortly before the broadcast begins.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Hosted by the Sherwin Family and the Wilson Center
Part 1: Remembrances (1pm – 2pm)
- Marty’s family, friends, colleagues & students
Musical Interlude
- Daniel Lelchuk - Cellist, New Orleans Symphony Orchestra
Part 2: Scholarship (2pm – 3pm)
- Kai Bird, Co-author of “American Prometheus”, Director, The Leon Levy Center for Biography at The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Panel Discussion: “Atoms, Diplomacy and Politics: The Work of Martin J. Sherwin”
- Melvyn P. Leffler (Edward Stettinius Professor of History Emeritus, University of Virginia), Chair
- Gregg Herken (former Chairman of the Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution)
- David Holloway (Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University)
- Elaine Tyler May (Regents Professor of American Studies and History, University of Minnesota)
- Remembrances from a decade of NPIHP Bootcamps – Leopoldo Nuti (Roma Tre University)
Explore the Work of Martin Sherwin
Former Director of CWIHP James G. Hershberg offers his memories of Martin in Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review