Humanities, Social Sciences and Medicine in East Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Jay Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is a specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. His first job was at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then taught at Warwick, Cambridge, Columbia, and Yale, from which he retired in 2015. He is the author of many books, including Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History; The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century; Rene Cassin and Human Rights; The Cultural History of War in the Twentieth Century and After, and The Day the Great War ended, 24 July 1923. He was a founder of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, and served on its board of directors of its research centre for 30 years.