International Society for First World War Studies Conference 2013 in Paris

Introduction

Conference Team

Ideologies

Chair: Arndt Weinrich (DHI Paris)

› “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) 09:15-09:45 (30min)

› 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) 09:45-10:15 (30min)

› Negotiating an Islamic ‘Other': British Propaganda and the East in the Great War - Sadia McEvoy, King's College London, commentary : Cloé Drieu (CNRS-CETOBAC) 10:15-10:45 (30min)

Coffee break

Empires

Chair: Santanu Das (KCL)

› Encountering the Other in Wartime Egypt - Mario Ruiz, Hofstra University, commentary Rémy Porte (CDEF) 11:15-11:45 (30min)

› 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) 11:45-12:15 (30min)

Lunch

Occupations

Chair: Annette Becker (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, IUF)

› 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 13:30-14:00 (30min)

› »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) 14:00-14:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Occupations

Chair : Emmanuelle Cronier (Amiens)

› 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) 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› « 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) 15:30-16:00 (30min)

› 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) 16:00-16:30 (30min)

Presentation of the HERA research project "Cultural Encounters" and projection of the film "'Whose Remembrance"

Santanu Das (KCL) & Suzanne Bargett (IWM)

Conference Dinner

Program