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The 2015 Winston S. Churchill Symposium
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The National WWII Museum, in partnership with the Churchill Society of New Orleans

An annual event since 2011, the Winston S. Churchill Symposium is a daylong program that draws people from around the country to learn about the man who was voted "The Greatest Briton of the 20th Century." This program, a collaborative effort between The National WWII Museum and the Churchill Society of New Orleans, brings members of both organizations together to learn about and celebrate this giant of a man.

While World War II is the Museum's primary focus, Churchill's long and illustrious life and career allow for each year's program to span beyond the war years, either by highlighting his formidable younger years or by discussing the influence he had in the postwar years.

The Symposium went on hiatus in 2014, due to the Churchill Centre's International Conference being hosted in New Orleans that spring, but 2015 will see this popular program return stronger than ever for its fourth installment.

For 2015, the program features four new speakers to discuss different aspects of Sir Winston's life.

Speakers:

Graham T. Clews is a retired teacher living in Canberra, Australia. He completed this work for his MA in history through the Australian Defence Force Academy campus of the University of New South Wales, Australia. His book, Churchill’s Dilemma: The Real Story Behind the Origins of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign completely rewrites the history of the origins of the Dardanelles Campaign and Winston Churchill's role in it, adding a new perspective to the military and political history of World War I.

Lynne Olson has been a reporter and writer since shortly after her graduation from the University of Arizona. She spent seven years with the Associated Press, working as a national feature writer in New York, a foreign correspondent in AP’s Moscow bureau, and a political reporter in Washington. She left the AP to join the Washington bureau of the Baltimore Sun, where she covered national politics and eventually the White House. She later taught journalism for five years as an assistant professor at American University in Washington. She is the author of numerous books including her most recent work Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941, which tells the story of the no-holds-barred debate that raged in America over what its role should be in WWII.

Dr. Neill Lochery is a world-renowned source on the politics and modern history of Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East, and is Professor of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Studies at University College London.
He has authored a series of critically acclaim books, including the international bestseller Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 and most recently Brazil: The Fortunes of War: World War II and the Making of Modern Brazil. Neill frequently appears on TV and radio around the world, and is also a contributor to leading newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal.

Nigel Hamilton is President of the Biographers International Organization, and Senior Fellow, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at University of Massachusetts-Boston. He is the author of the NYT bestselling JFK: Reckless Youth; Monty, the award-winning three-volume authorized biography on Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery; American Caesars: Lives of the Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. His book The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 was published in 2013 and he is currently working on his second volume in the series Commander in Chief: FDR at War, 1943-1945.

For more information, please call 504-528-1944 x 511 or email conferences@nationalww2museum.org.

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Time: 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM

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