Thursday, January 8, 2004

7:30 p.m.

Plenary Session: Thought on War in a Democratic Age
Marriott, Ballroom Salon II

Presiding: James M. McPherson, Princeton University and President of the American Historical Association
Chair: Charles Maier, Harvard University
Paper: From Ideal to Ambiguity: Johannes von Müller, Clausewitz, and the People in Arms
  Peter Paret, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  On “Military Necessity” in an Age of Total War
  Isabel V. Hull, Cornell University
  Humanity in an Age of Total Destruction
  Michael Geyer, University of Chicago
Comment: Suzanne L. Marchand, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge