The Great War: From Memory to History

Men of Suvla: The Legacy of Gallipoli in Ireland and Newfoundland

Jane McGaughey — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:45:00 PST

Jane McGaughey received her PhD in 2008 from Birkbeck College at the University of London. Her monograph, Ulster’s Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities in the north of Ireland 1912-1923, will be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in January 2012. Her new research investigates facets of imperialism during the battle of Gallipoli.

Faded Memories and Shaky Pens: Doughboys Remember the Great War in a Country that Forgot

Edward Gutiérrez — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:30:00 PST

Edward A. Gutiérrez received his Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University under the direction of Geoffrey Parker. His most recent awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Grant and a Memory and Memorialization Postdoctoral Fellowship with CNRS in Paris, France. He teaches history at the University of Hartford.

'Let us die manfully for our brethren': Commemorating the Battle of the Falkland Islands, December 1914

Mark Connelly — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:00:00 PST

In 1914 British power rested on its economic might and its immense naval strength. The image of the Royal Navy as the guardian of the seas was a very powerful one across the British Empire. Early on in the war the Royal Navy seemed to confirm its role as international policeman with the defeat of the German Admiral Graff Spee’s squadron off the Falkland Islands in December 1914. The paper will look at the way this engagement was presented at the time in Britain and its continuing importance to the Royal Navy in a war that increasingly deflected attention away from the senior service and towards the army. The battle also served to raise the profile of the Falkland Islands in the British public imagination and was used to buttress the concept that every part of the British Empire played a useful role in the maintenance of British values and, consequently, international stability. Finally, the battle was also important to concepts of local identity in the Falkland Islands giving islanders a sense of their significance and self-worth within the imperial orbit.

‘Loyal until Death:’ African Veterans’ Memory of War Service: 1919-1943

Dan Bullard — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:00:00 PST

Dan Bullard is completing his doctoral dissertation in European and colonial history at York University. Grounded in extensive research in Africa and Europe, his dissertation explores the remembrance of German colonial rule in Africa, Asia and Oceania between 1919 and 1943 in both former colony and former metropole.

‘Loyal and Civilized’: Aboriginal Soldiers, the Department of Indian Affairs, and the Production of a Collective Memory, 1916-1940

Brian MacDowall — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:00:00 PST

Brian MacDowall is a PhD Candidate at York University. His dissertation, tentatively entitled “Finding Space for Redress: Veterans, the Government, and Aboriginal Lands in Canada, 1916-1930,” assesses the administration of Aboriginal Great War veterans by the Department of Indian Affairs, focusing on the Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal use of reserve lands for Re-Establishment purposes.

The Chamber of Princes: The Great War and the Contested Vision of India’s Future

Kris Radford — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:00:00 PST

Kris Radford is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of History, York University, under the supervision of Douglas Peers. He is currently working on his dissertation, ‘Exalted Order: British indirect rule in the Muslim world 1880-1914’, which investigates how ideas of governing Muslim peoples flowed from India to other parts of the British empire.

The Great War in Popular Detective Fiction

Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:00:00 PST

Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz is Assistant Professor in the Section of British Literature, Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. She is the author of The Myth of War in British and Polish Poetry, 1939-1945 and is currently finishing a project on the representations of the Great War in post-memory fiction and film.

Otto Dix and the Great War: Reality, Memory and the Construction of Identity in the portfolio War of 1924

Michele Wijegoonaratna — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:00:00 PST

Michele Wijegoonaratna is a PhD. Candidate in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and a Research Assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This paper forms part of her dissertation titled: Tradition, Innovation and the Construction of Identity in Otto Dix’s Portraits and Self-Portraits 1912-1927.

From “Backstabbing Arabs” to “Deserting Kurds”: Reading nationalism through Turkish accounts of World War I

Veysell Simsek — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:30:00 PST

Veysel Simsek is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, McMaster University. His dissertation concentrates on the Ottoman “grand strategy” during the turbulent years of war and reform between 1826 and 1841. His broader research interest includes history of the late Ottoman Empire, war and society in the modern Middle East and Ottoman-European encounters.

‘I Sing of My Comrades’: Reconsidering the Elegies of The Great War and the Spanish Civil War

Patricia Rae — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:30:00 PST

Patricia Rae is Professor of English at Queen’s University. She is the author of The Practical Muse: Pragmatist Poetics in Hulme, Pound and Stevens, Modernism and Mourning, and a new book manuscript, Modernist Orwell. Her articles on Spain and World War I appear in The Journal of War and Culture Studies, The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, Queen’s Quarterly, and in The Spanish Civil War: History, Memory, Representation (forthcoming, University of Wales Press.)

The experience of the First World War in Eastern Europe by Austro-Hungarian soldiers

Wolfram Dornik — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:30:00 PST

Finished his studies at the University of Graz 2003 on History, Media and International Relations (dissertation: Memory Culture on Austrian Websites on Holocaust and National Socialism). Research Assistant at the LBI for Research on the Consequences of War since 2004; research on: First World War (Eastern Front), history of Austria(-Hungary) 1914-1955.

With tin noses and copper moustaches: post-war experiences of disfigured Great War veterans in Britain and the Dominions

Kerry Neale — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:30:00 PST

Kerry Neale is currently completing her thesis “Without the Faces of Men:” facial wounds and disfigurement of Great War soldiers of Britain and the Dominions at UNSW@ADFA. Ms Neale was awarded the University Medal in History from the Australian National University in 2007, and has worked at the Australian War Memorial and the National Museum of Australia.

Broken Bodies and Shattered Nerves: Remembering and Forgetting the Disabled Soldiers of Canada’s Great War

Kellen Kurschinski — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:30:00 PST

Kellen Kurschinski is a PhD Candidate at McMaster University. His main areas of academic interest are the social impact of the First World War in Canada, disability history, and the social history of medicine. His dissertation examines the experience of Canada’s disabled Great War veterans from 1915-1939.

Limping Heroes: The Static Representation of disability in Canadian Great War Fiction

Amy Tector — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:30:00 PST

Amy Tector received her PhD in Canadian Literature from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her doctoral thesis examined the representation of wound in interwar novels featuring disabled soldiers of the First World War. She is currently a Senior Photo Archivist at Library and Archives Canada.

The Big Bang Theory: Australia Starts at Gallipoli

Clare Rhoden — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:00:00 PST

Clare Rhoden is a final year PhD candidate in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her research into the representation of leadership in First World War narratives unfolds a distinct Australian style which concentrates on purpose rather than futility.

Yugoslav Eulogies: Remembering the Sarajevo Assassination

Paul Miller — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:00:00 PST

I received my Ph.D. in modern European history from Yale University in 1995. My dissertation “From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870–1914” was published by Duke UP (2002). I am currently working on a book project on the memory of the Sarajevo assassination.

Continued Commemorations: Twenty-First Century Representations of the Vimy Monument in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers and the Canadian War Museum

Amelia Lubowitz — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:00:00 PST

Amelia Lubowitz received her BA and MA from the University of Ottawa and is currently a PhD candidate at The University of Western Ontario. Her dissertation examines contemporary Canadian historical fiction and commemorative practices that reflect the significance the First World War has on the contemporary moment.

As Free From Truth As A Frog From Feathers:Interpreting personal narratives of the Gallipoli Campaign, Anzac, 1915

James Hurst — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:00:00 PST

James Hurst (BSc, University of Western Australia) is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University and is writing a thesis on the Australian Gallipoli Landing of 25 April 1915. He is author of Game to the Last: The 11^th Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli, Melbourne, Australia, Oxford University Press, 2005.

‘Dad’s War Diaries’: Family remembering and the Great War

Bart Ziino — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:00:00 PST

Dr Bart Ziino teaches history at Deakin University, Australia. His publications on commemoration of the First World War include A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War (2007). He is currently undertaking a history of private sentiment in Australia during the First World War.

Scales of Remembrance: Amateur Genealogy and the First World War

James Wallis — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:00:00 PST

I began an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Collaborative Doctoral Award in October 2011, entitled ‘Remembrance, Commemoration and Memory: Negotiating the Politics of Display in the Imperial War Museum, 1960 – 2014’. This builds upon my previous degrees at Exeter University (UK); BA Hons. Human Geography, and Masters in Research (Critical Human Geographies).