This timetable is still provisional, and elements may be subject to change
DAY ONE: Thursday 10th September, 2009
09:30-10:45 Registration
10:45-11:00 Opening the conference
11:00-12:20 Imperial War Museum panel
Dr Simon Robbins
Mr Paul Cornish, ‘The Machine Gun Myth’
Mr Mark Whitmore
12:20-13:30 Prisoners of War:
Chair: Mike Neiberg
Matthias Egger, ‘Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War in Russia and Italy 1914-1922: Their Administration by the Austro-Hungarian and subsequent Austrian Government’
Commentator: John Horne
Timothy Schroer, ‘Racial Mixing of Prisoners of War during World War I’
Commentator: Heather Jones
Daniel Steinbach, ‘Challenging European Colonial Supremacy: The Internment of ‘Enemy Aliens’ in British and German East Africa during the First World War’
Commentator: David Stevenson
13:30-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Legacy:
Chair: Annette Becker
Mark Jones, ‘From ‘‘Skagerrak’ to the ‘Organization Consul.’ War culture and the Imperial German Navy 1914-1922′
Commentator: Jan Rüger
Julia Eichenberg, ‘Extending the War: Paramilitary Violence in Poland and Ireland, 1918-1923′
Commentator: Robert Gerwarth
Brigitte Strauß, ‘The First World War in museums and exhibitions 1914-1939. A comparative study of Austria and Italy’
Commentator: Marvin Fried
15:45-16:00 Tea & biscuits
16:00-17:30 Artistic Response:
Chair: Adrian Gregory
Ann-Marie Einhaus, ‘Espionage, the Enemy and Home-Front Anxieties: Spy Stories in Popular Magazines, 1914-1918′
Commentator: Sue Malvern
Caroline Lord, ‘The View “From the Uttermost Ends of the Earth”: New Zealand’s First World War Artists’
Commentator: Michèle Barrett
20:00 Conference dinner
DAY TWO: Friday 11th September, 2009
09:30-11:30 Neutral Countries:
Chair: Wim Klinkert
Landry Charrier, ‘La Suisse pendant la Grande Guerre, « front de la dissidence » et plate-forme d’échanges franco-allemands’
Commentator: Pierre Purseigle
Samuël Kruizinga, ‘Government by Committee: Dutch Economic Policy during the First World War’
Commentator: Johan den Hertog
Phillip Dehne, ‘The Forgotten Western Front: Britain versus Germany in South America’
Commentator: Richard Smith
Conny Kristel, ‘”A Wonderful Something”. The Netherlands and the war in 1914′
Commentator: Alexander Sedlmaier
11:30-11:45 Coffee & biscuits
11:45-13:00 Military Aspects:
Chair: Bill Philpott
Kenneth Hagan & Michael McMaster, ‘The Anglo-American Naval Alliance at Close Quarters’
Commentator: Jeffrey Grey
Kaushik Roy, ‘Modernization or Demodernization of the Army in India: Cavalry from the First World War till the Third Afghan War, 1914-1919′
Commentator: Rob Johnson
Simon House, ‘The Scapegoat. Colonel de Grandmaison, Deux Conférences faites aux officiers de l’Etat-Major de l’Armée (Février 1911), La Notion de Sureté Et L’Engagement des Grandes Unités (Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1911)’
Commentator: Mike Neiberg
13:00-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:15 Experience:
Chair: Alisa Miller
Georgia Eglezou, ‘Voices from the front: The war experience of the Greek soldiers’
Commentator: Gary Sheffield
Daniela Schanes, ‘Other combatants, other attitudes and memories: A comparison of Austrian and Serbian commanders’ memoirs and diaries’
Commentator: Adrian Gregory
Philip Wirtz, ‘“A Long Farwell”: Perceptions of the First World War in Turkish autobiographies’
Commentator: Andy Syk
15:15-15:30 Tea & biscuits
15:30-17:30 Centenaries Roundtable
Chair: Anthony Heywood
John Steinberg
Jeffrey Grey
Werner Suppanz
John Horne
18:30 Drinks reception
19:30 Keynote speech
DAY THREE: Saturday 12th September, 2009
09:30-11:30 Race:
Chair: Daniel Steinbach
Alison Fell, ‘Beyond the bonhomme Banania: Lucie Cousturier’s encounters with black African soldiers during the First World War’’
Commentator: Jennifer Keene
Radhika Singha, ‘The recruiter’s eye on ‘the primitive’: the Indian Labour Corps in France, 1917-1918’’
Commentator: Omar Salim Khan
Nathan Smith, ‘”[W]e want our country white from shore to shore”: Great War Veterans and the “Alien Problem” in Wartime Canada’
Commentator: Dennis Showalter
11:30-11:45 Coffee & biscuits
11:45-13:15 Gender and Identities:
Chair: Gearóid Barry
Mary Conley, ‘A Boy’s Lesson in Manhood: the Commemoration of Jack Cornwell’s Death at the Battle of Jutland’
Commentator: Edward Madigan
Nicole-Melanie Goll, ‘Other combatants, other heroes? Captain Godwin von Brumowski. The Myth of the Austrian War Hero?’
Commentator: Jessica Meyer
Marc Calvini-Lefebvre, ‘All Quiet on the Feminist Front? ‘Keeping the Flag Flying’ in Great War Britain’
Commentator: Laurie Cohen
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Behind the Lines:
Chair: Pierre Purseigle
Emmanuel Debruyne, ‘Resistance: the prequel’
Commentator: Annette Becker
Sean Brady, ‘From Peacetime to Wartime: The Sicilian Province of Catania and Italian Intervention in the Great War, June 1914-September 1915′
Commentator: Vanda Wilcox
Tomás Irish, ‘The aims of science are the antitheses to those of war’: Debating the place of science in Britain and France during the First World War.’
Commentator: Bill Philpott
Mark Levitch, ‘War by Other Means: Mutilé Toymakers and French National Identity’
Commentator: Kerry Neal
15:30-15:45 Tea & biscuits
15:45-17:15 Roundtable discussion: How Global Is the History of the First World War?
Chair: Gerhard Hirschfeld
Participants:
David Killingray
Tomoyuki Ishizu
Santanu Das
Robert Gerwarth
Alexander Watson
17:15-17:45 Close of conference