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When in Rome Sleepless Nights
Adrian Goldsworthy Benjamin Reiss
Wednesday 4–4:45 pm Wednesday 4–4:45 pm
Walt Disney Room Joan Didion Room

David Bryant talks with Adrian Goldsworthy about the creation of the Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why
Roman Empire, revealing how and why the Romans came to control do we spend so much time and money managing
so much of the world and asking whether the favorable image of the and medicating it, and training ourselves and our
Roman peace is a true one. Goldsworthy’s new book, Pax Romana, is a children to do it correctly? Professor Benjamin
groundbreaking and comprehensive history of the Roman peace. Reiss will share some answers in sleep’s hidden
history —one that leads to our present, sleep-obsessed
society, its tacitly accepted rules, and their troubling
consequences. With Patt Morrison.

The Hello Girls
Elizabeth Cobbs
Wednesday 4–4:45 pm
Anne Rice Room

In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal
Corps, at the insistence of
General John J. Pershing, sent
223 American women to France
because they were masters of the
latest technology: the telephone
switchboard. Professor Elizabeth
Cobbs reveals the challenges these
courageous women faced in a war
zone and under enemy fire to
keep the U.S. army commanders
connected with troops on the
front lines.

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