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First World War
2nd European Conference in First World War Studies
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Published on Monday, June 09, 2003
Summary
International Society for First World War Studies
MAISON FRANÇAISE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
23 & 24 June 2003
An international conference organized with the support of the Maison Française d’Oxford, the University
Announcement
International Society for First World War Studies
MAISON FRANÇAISE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
23 & 24 June 2003
An international conference organized with the support of the Maison Française d’Oxford, the University of Oxford, the Cultural and the Scientific Services at the French Embassy in London.
Monday 23 June 2003
2 pm: First Session
Chair: Dr. Jenny Macleod, JSCSC / King’s College, London
Thomas Weber, University of Glasgow: British war propaganda and the thesis of German militarism: Friedrich von Bernhardi’s Germany and the Next War reconsidered
Discussant: Ismee Tames, University of Amsterdam
Vanda Wilcox, The Queen’s College, Oxford: Discipline in the Italian army during WWI
Discussant: Dr. Anne Duménil, Université de Picardie
Prof. Dennis Showalter, Colorado College: Mastering the Western Front: German, British and French approaches
Discussant: Heather Jones, Trinity College, Dublin
Moni Riez, University of Calgary: The food crisis in Budapest during the Great War
Discussant: Prof. Jay Winter, Yale University
5.45 pm. Keynote Speech
Professor Len Smith, Oberlin College “Imagining Survival: Death, Mutilation, and Killing in French Combatants' Testimonies of the Great War”
Chair: Prof. Hew Strachan, All Souls College, Oxford
Tuesday 24 June 2003
9 am: Second Session
Chair: Dr. Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University
Gearoid Barry, Trinity College, Dublin: Marc Sangnier’s war, 1914-1919. portrait of a soldier, catholic and social activist
Discussant: Prof. Robert Gildea, Merton College, Oxford
Heather Jones, Trinity College, Dublin: Encountering the ‘enemy’ : prisoner of war transport and the development of war culture in 1914
Discussant: Dr. Gary Sheffield, JSCSC / King’s College, London
Patrick Porter, Magdalen College, Oxford: 'New Jerusalems’. English and German Military chaplains and the ideal of redemptive sacrifice'
Discussant: Dr. Jeff Verhey, Berlin
10.30: Coffee
10.45: Third Session
Chair: Pierre Purseigle, Maison Française, University of Oxford
Dr. Jennifer D. Keene, University of Redlands: ‘The war within the war’: protest and disability among African-American veterans of the First World War
Discussant: Dr. Niall Barr, JSCSC / King’s College, London
Dr. Keith Grieves, Kingston University: Huts, demobilisation and the quest for an associational life in rural communities in England after the Great War
Discussant: Gail Braybon, University of Brighton
Nicolas Ginsburger, ENS / Université de Paris X: Un géographe américain entre science et diplomatie: la mission de Douglas W. Johnson en Europe (mai-nov. 1918)
Discussant: Dr. Mike Neiberg, U.S.A.F. Academy
2pm: Fourth Session
Chair: Jessica Meyer, Pembroke College, Cambridge
Elizabeth Fordham, EHESS: The Great War and modern scholarship: academic responses to war in Paris and London
Discussant: Clarisse Berthezène, Maison Française, University of Oxford
Paul Mulvey, LSE: The wartime career of Josiah Wedgwood, the English Radical politician
Discussant: Dr. Martin Farr, University of Newcastle
Catriona Pennell, LSE/ Trinity College, Dublin: English public opinion and the outbreak of WWI: the myth of war enthusiasm
Discussant: Dr. Adrian Gregory, Pembroke College, Oxford
3.30pm: Coffee
3.45pm: Fifth Session
Chair: Dr Stefan Goebel, Churchill College, Cambridge
Dr. Nicolas Beaupré, Université de Paris X: La question de l’émergence d’un nouveau type de ‘littérature combattante’ pendant la Grande Guerre au miroir d’une étude comparée (France, Allemagne)
Discussant: Prof. Len Smith, Oberlin College
Elise Julien, Université de Paris I / Freie Universität, Berlin: Paris, Berlin: la mémoire de la Première Guerre mondiale (1914-1933)
Discussant: Veronika Burget, The Queen’s College, Oxford
Leen Engelen, Catholic University of Leuven: Cinematographic representation of the enemy in Belgian fiction films 1918-1939
Discussant: Dr. Martin Conway, Balliol College, Oxford
International Society for First World War Studies
Société Internationale d'étude de la Grande Guerre
MAISON FRANÇAISE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
23 & 24 June 2003
An international conference organized with the support of the Maison Française d’Oxford, the University of Oxford, the Cultural and the Scientific Services at the French Embassy in London.
Monday 23 June 2003
2 pm: First Session
Chair: Dr. Jenny Macleod, JSCSC / King’s College, London
Thomas Weber, University of Glasgow: British war propaganda and the thesis of German militarism: Friedrich von Bernhardi’s Germany and the Next War reconsidered
Discussant: Ismee Tames, University of Amsterdam
Vanda Wilcox, The Queen’s College, Oxford: Discipline in the Italian army during WWI
Discussant: Dr. Anne Duménil, Université de Picardie
Prof. Dennis Showalter, Colorado College: Mastering the Western Front: German, British and French approaches
Discussant: Heather Jones, Trinity College, Dublin
Moni Riez, University of Calgary: The food crisis in Budapest during the Great War
Discussant: Prof. Jay Winter, Yale University
5.45 pm. Keynote Speech
Professor Len Smith, Oberlin College “Imagining Survival: Death, Mutilation, and Killing in French Combatants' Testimonies of the Great War”
Chair: Prof. Hew Strachan, All Souls College, Oxford
Tuesday 24 June 2003
9 am: Second Session
Chair: Dr. Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University
Gearoid Barry, Trinity College, Dublin: Marc Sangnier’s war, 1914-1919. portrait of a soldier, catholic and social activist
Discussant: Prof. Robert Gildea, Merton College, Oxford
Heather Jones, Trinity College, Dublin: Encountering the ‘enemy’ : prisoner of war transport and the development of war culture in 1914
Discussant: Dr. Gary Sheffield, JSCSC / King’s College, London
Patrick Porter, Magdalen College, Oxford: 'New Jerusalems’. English and German Military chaplains and the ideal of redemptive sacrifice'
Discussant: Dr. Jeff Verhey, Berlin
10.30: Coffee
10.45: Third Session
Chair: Pierre Purseigle, Maison Française, University of Oxford
Dr. Jennifer D. Keene, University of Redlands: ‘The war within the war’: protest and disability among African-American veterans of the First World War
Discussant: Dr. Niall Barr, JSCSC / King’s College, London
Dr. Keith Grieves, Kingston University: Huts, demobilisation and the quest for an associational life in rural communities in England after the Great War
Discussant: Gail Braybon, University of Brighton
Nicolas Ginsburger, ENS / Université de Paris X: Un géographe américain entre science et diplomatie: la mission de Douglas W. Johnson en Europe (mai-nov. 1918)
Discussant: Dr. Mike Neiberg, U.S.A.F. Academy
2pm: Fourth Session
Chair: Jessica Meyer, Pembroke College, Cambridge
Elizabeth Fordham, EHESS: The Great War and modern scholarship: academic responses to war in Paris and London
Discussant: Clarisse Berthezène, Maison Française, University of Oxford
Paul Mulvey, LSE: The wartime career of Josiah Wedgwood, the English Radical politician
Discussant: Dr. Martin Farr, University of Newcastle
Catriona Pennell, LSE/ Trinity College, Dublin: English public opinion and the outbreak of WWI: the myth of war enthusiasm
Discussant: Dr. Adrian Gregory, Pembroke College, Oxford
3.30pm: Coffee
3.45pm: Fifth Session
Chair: Dr Stefan Goebel, Churchill College, Cambridge
Dr. Nicolas Beaupré, Université de Paris X: La question de l’émergence d’un nouveau type de ‘littérature combattante’ pendant la Grande Guerre au miroir d’une étude comparée (France, Allemagne)
Discussant: Prof. Len Smith, Oberlin College
Elise Julien, Université de Paris I / Freie Universität, Berlin: Paris, Berlin: la mémoire de la Première Guerre mondiale (1914-1933)
Discussant: Veronika Burget, The Queen’s College, Oxford
Leen Engelen, Catholic University of Leuven: Cinematographic representation of the enemy in Belgian fiction films 1918-1939
Discussant: Dr. Martin Conway, Balliol College, Oxford
International Society for First World War Studies
Société Internationale d'étude de la Grande Guerre
Subjects
- Modern (Main subject)
- Periods > Modern > Twentieth century > 1914-1918
- Society > Political studies > Wars, conflicts, violence
Places
- Oxford, Britain
Date(s)
- Monday, June 23, 2003
Keywords
- Grande Guerre, 1914-1918, Première Guerre mondiale, histoire comparée, histoire culturelle
Contact(s)
- Pierre Purseigle
courriel : p [dot] purseigle [at] warwick [dot] ac [dot] uk
Reference Urls
Information source
- Pierre Purseigle
courriel : p [dot] purseigle [at] warwick [dot] ac [dot] uk
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« First World War », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Monday, June 09, 2003, https://calenda.org/188151
