CONFERENCE: A World Transformed: The First World War and its Legacy

The Globalising and Localising the Great War network will culminate in a three-day conference on 19-23 June 2019, bringing together current and former PhD students, postdocs, postholders, visiting researchers, and collaborators to share their research and discuss the post-centenary future of First World War studies.

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Programme

 

Day 1: 19 June 2019 – Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford

 

10.30-11.00: Registration and refreshments
 

11.00-12.20: Keynote 1 – Prof. Margaret Macmillan, University of Oxford

“Making Peace is Harder than Waging War—Georges Clemenceau”

Chair: Dr. Alice Kelly, Rothermere American Institute (Oxford)
 

12.20-13.10: Lunch
 

13.10-14.30: Panel 1 – First World War and Global Religions project

Chair: Dr Faridah Zaman, University of Oxford

Dr. Adrian Gregory, University of Oxford 

Dr. Patrick Houlihan, University of Oxford  

Dr. Hussein Omar, University of Oxford 

       

14.30-14.50: Refreshments

 

14.50-16.10: Panel 2 – Hunger Draws the Map project

Chair: TBC

Prof. Sir Hew Strachan, University of St. Andrews

Prof. Baroness Sophie de Schaepdrijver, Penn State University

Dr. Claire Morelon, University of Padova

Dr. Mary Cox, University of Oxford         Associates (TBC)

 

16.10-17.30: Keynote 2 – Dr. Adrian Gregory, University of Oxford

 “The First World War as Millenarian Moment”

Chair: Dr. Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University

 

18.00-18.45: Drinks reception – Maison Française d’Oxford

Day 2: 20 June 2019 – Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford

 

09.15-11.10: Panel 3 – GLGW-affiliated postdocs, 2015-present

Chair: Prof. Santanu Das, University of Oxford       

Dr. Alice Kelly, Rothermere American Institute (Oxford)

Dr. Jonathan Krause, King’s College London

Dr. Suzan Meryem Kalayci, University of Oxford

Dr. Taline Garibian, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine (Oxford)

 

11.10-11.30: Refreshments

 

11.30-12.45: Panel 4 – GLGW Graduate Students (2014 and prior cohorts)

Chair: TBC

Greg Hynes

Dr. Stefano Marcuzzi

Dr. Robin Adams, Queen’s University Belfast

 

12.45-13.45: Lunch

 

13.45-15.05: Keynote 3 – Prof. John Horne, Trinity College Dublin

Chair: TBC

 

15.05-16.10: Panel 5 – GLGW Graduate Students (2015 cohort)

Chair: TBC

Hanna Smyth

Jack Doyle

Mike Joseph

Adam Luptak

        

16.10-16.30: Refreshments

 

16.30-17.50: Panel 6 – GLGW Graduate Students (2016 and subsequent cohorts)

Chair: Hanna Smyth

Terry Cudbird

Kathryn White

Thomas Heyen-Dube

Chloe Nahum

   

18.30-22.00: Dinner – St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford

Day 3: 21 June – Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford

 

09.15-10.55: Panel 7 – Collaborators

Chair: Dr. David Monger, University of Canterbury (NZ)

Prof. Santanu Das, University of Oxford

Prof. Iris Rachamimov, Tel Aviv University

Nina Régis, Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès

Dr. Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University

Prof. Chris Snyder, Mississippi State University

 

10.55-11.15: Refreshments

 

11.15-12.00: Panel 8 – Roundtable

 

12.00-12.45: Lunch

 

12.45-14.00: Keynote 4 – Prof. Sir Hew Strachan, University of St. Andrews

“Peacemaking and civil-military relations 1918-1923"

Chair: TBC

 

14.15-18.00: Visit to GLGW mini-exhibition, ‘Oxford: The War and the World, 1914-1919’, at Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (SOFO).