Not only understanding history but understanding our present. Which this speaker absolutely is going to be addressing all of those things. Dr. Akin is an associate professor at tulane university, where he specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and republican turkey. His book, when the war came home examines the Ottoman Empires catastrophic experience of the First World War and analyzes the impact of the war on the civilian population and was named the 2018 choice award for outstanding academic title. He is the coeditor of the Ottoman Empire middle east section of the 191419 18 Online International encyclopedia of the First World War. If you have not use that as a resource yet, you really need to take a look at it. That 19141918 encyclopedia is spectacular with global contributors, many of whom you have seen on the stage today, and on the stage if you have been here before. Do check that out. Thank you for the work you have put into that. He is currently working on a monograph about the