On November 6, 2012, the GSA Seminar Working Group announced the seminar idea and issued a call for proposals as part of implementing a pilot seminar program at the upcoming meeting in Denver.2 This solicitation described the rationale behind "seminar modules" and clarified the basic requirements that any proposal would have to meet in order to be accepted for the program. These requirements for all proposals included: two to three "seminar conveners" responsible for designing the seminar and presiding over the sessions; a theme or goal for the seminars that could attract an enrollment of at least fifteen to twenty GSA members; the commitment of all enrollees to participate in every one of the three morning sessions; an agreement that the seminars would be open to graduate students, as well as regular members; and some kind of format that included precirculated papers which would provide the basis for the on-site seminar discussion or work in Denver during the session meetings. Suggestions included thematic discussions of current research from individual seminar participants, roundtable discussions of preselected scholarly, literary, or artistic works, and other forms of intellectual analysis. Thus, while the Working Group encouraged creativity in the design of proposed seminar modules, the leadership team wanted to ensure that the work performed by members as part of their seminar preparation and participation would be somewhat equivalent to presenting a traditional paper-and could thus officially count as such, as well. With these guidelines at hand, an existing network of German Studies scholars known to be working on the topic, and the goal of augmenting an essay collection already in preparation, we concluded that a seminar proposal which aimed to examine and evaluate scholarly developments in World War I research and which would take place on the eve of the war's centenary might be a viable one.