Program

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:15 Introduction - Conference Team  
09:15 - 10:45 Ideologies - Chair: Arndt Weinrich (DHI Paris)  
09:15 - 09:45 › “Race Troops” in Europe: Black Americans encounter the black French other in World War One - Rachel Gillett, Harvard University, commentary: Pap Ndiaye (Sciences Po Paris)  
09:45 - 10:15 › The Glory of Their Deeds: A Global History of Black Soldiers and the Great War Era - Sarah-Jane MATHIEU, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, commentary: Richard Fogarty (SUNY Albany)  
10:15 - 10:45 › Negotiating an Islamic ‘Other': British Propaganda and the East in the Great War - Sadia McEvoy, King's College London, commentary : Cloé Drieu (CNRS-CETOBAC)  
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break  
11:15 - 12:15 Empires - Chair: Santanu Das (KCL)  
11:15 - 11:45 › Encountering the Other in Wartime Egypt - Mario Ruiz, Hofstra University, commentary Rémy Porte (CDEF)  
11:45 - 12:15 › Estonian Soldiers and the Others in the First World War: A Comparative Viewpoint - Liisi Eglit, Stanford University Libraries, University of Tartu, commentary: Paul Simmons (Moscou)  
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 14:30 Occupations - Chair: Annette Becker (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, IUF)  
13:30 - 14:00 › Encountering Colored Frenchmen: Honor, Shame, and Respectable Comportment in the Post-World War I Occupied Rhineland - John Boonstra, University of Wisconsin Madison, commentary Jean-Yves le Naour  
14:00 - 14:30 › »Hasty Observations«? — Geographical Field Research and Intercultural Encounters in the Austro-Hungarian Occupied Western Balkans, 1916—1918 - Heiko Brendel, Historisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, commentary: Pavlina Bobic (Birmingham)  
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break  
15:00 - 16:30 Occupations - Chair : Emmanuelle Cronier (Amiens)  
15:00 - 15:30 › James E. Connolly - Male 'Mauvaise Conduite' in the Occupied Nord, 1914-1918 - James Connolly, King's College London, Université Paris 4, Paris-Sorbonne, commentary John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)  
15:30 - 16:00 › « Femmes à Boches ». Perspectives sur une occupation horizontale (France et Belgique, 1914-1918) - Emmanuel Debruyne, Centre de Recherche sur l'Imaginaire (CRI) - UCL , commentary John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)  
16:00 - 16:30 › The Militarisation of Civilian Life on the Western Front, 1914-1918 - Alex Dowdall, Trinity College Dublin, commentary: Elizabeth Greenhalgh (University of New South Wales/Australian Defence Force Academy)  
16:30 - 17:30 Presentation of the HERA research project "Cultural Encounters" and projection of the film "'Whose Remembrance" - Santanu Das (KCL) & Suzanne Bargett (IWM)  
19:30 - 23:30 Conference Dinner  

Friday, September 27, 2013

Time Event  
09:30 - 11:00 Intermediaries - Chair: Jenny Macleod (Hull University)  
09:30 - 10:00 › The Other War Correspondents: Three Women Writers at the Western Front - Sara Prieto, Universidad de Alicante, commentary: Laurence Campa (Paris-XII-Val-de-Marne)  
10:00 - 10:30 › Wartime Europe through the eyes of Argentine war correspondents - María Inés Tato, CONICET/University of Buenos Aires, commentary Franziska Heimburger (EHESS Paris)  
10:30 - 11:00 › Friends, colleagues, mediators. Austro-Hungarian and German POW artists and their ties with the Siberian art world 1915-1922 - Lena Radauer, Albert-Ludwigs University, commentary: Heather Jones (LSE)  
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break  
11:15 - 12:15 Intermediaries - Chair: Edward Madigan, (Royal Holloway, University of London)  
11:15 - 11:45 › Italian soldiers, strangers in their Country: isolationism and social reaction in "War Zone". The “Calcinato case”1915-1919. - Mauro Pellegrini, Museo della Guerra Bianca - Centro permanente di studio e documentazione della Grande Guerra in Lombardia, commentary: Vanda Wilcox (John Cabot University, Rome)  
11:45 - 12:15 › East-European Jews in the Written Legacy of German Soldiers from the Great War - Leonid Rein, International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem, commentary Wolfram Dornik (Graz)  
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 14:30 Social and geographical distances - Chair: Emmanuel Saint-Fuscien (EHESS)  
13:30 - 14:00 › De la Grèce rêvée à la Grèce vécue. L'armée d'Orient dans une interculturalité complexe - Thérèse Krempp, EHESS Centre d'études byzantines néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes, commentary: Olivier Cosson  
14:00 - 14:30 › Une domesticité militaire ? L'ordonnance comme indicateur des rapports de classe dans la Grande Guerre. - Nicolas Mariot, Centre universitaire de recherches sur l'action publique et le politique. Epistémologie et Sciences sociales, commentary: Pierre Purseigle (Yale)  
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break  
14:45 - 15:45 Social and geographical distances - Chair: Élise Julien (IEP Lille)  
14:45 - 15:15 › A common problem for different countries: disabled soldiers and their re-integration into national communities - Martina Salvante, Trinity College Dublin, commentary: Sophie Delaporte (Université de Picardie-Jules-Verne)  
15:15 - 15:45 › Des grains de sable dans la tempête: l'expérience interculturelle des combattants tchèques et slovaques dans la Grande Guerre. - Helena Trnkova, Centre de Recherches interdisciplinaires en sciences humaines et sociales, Université Montpellier III, commentary: Claire Morelon (Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris)  
15:45 - 16:00 Break  
16:00 - 17:30 Final discussion - Panel of Society Members  
  
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