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2011
Saturday, November 12th
9:00 AM

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

Brian MacDowall, York University

9:00 AM

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

Dan Bullard, York University

9:00 AM

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

Michele Wijegoonaratna, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

9:00 AM

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

Kris Radford, York University

9:00 AM

The Great War in Popular Detective Fiction

Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, University of Warsaw

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

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

Kellen Kurschinski, McMaster University

10:30 AM

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

Kerry Neale, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy

10:30 AM

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

Veysell Simsek, McMaster University

10:30 AM

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

Patricia Rae, Queen's University

10:30 AM

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

Amy Tector, Library and Archives Canada

10:30 AM

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

Wolfram Dornik, Graz Universitat

10:30 AM

1:00 PM

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

James Hurst, Australian National University

1:00 PM

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

Amelia Lubowitz, The University of Western Ontario

1:00 PM

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

Bart Ziino, Deakins University

1:00 PM

Scales of Remembrance: Amateur Genealogy and the First World War

James Wallis, University of Exeter

1:00 PM

The Big Bang Theory: Australia Starts at Gallipoli

Clare Rhoden, University of Melbourne

1:00 PM

Yugoslav Eulogies: Remembering the Sarajevo Assassination

Paul Miller, University of Birmingham, Centre for First World War Studies; and McDaniel College

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

A Story Untold: The Failure of State War Histories

Kimberly Lamay, University at Albany

2:30 PM

Agents of Remembrance: The American Legion’s Role in the Origins of Indiana’s War Memorial, 1919-1925

Mary Osborne, University of Kentucky

2:30 PM

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

Edward Gutiérrez, University of Hartford

2:30 PM

Silencing the Guns? Bridging Public and Historical Debates about the Great War in Canada

Mary G. Chaktsiris, Queen's University

2:30 PM

The Names of the Dead: Shot at Dawn and the Politics of Remembrance

Bette London, University of Rochester

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

A thoroughly reliable man: The struggle to find a place in post-war Newfoundland and Labrador

John Matchim, Memorial University of Newfoundland

4:00 PM

Sanity and Self Control: The IWGC and the promotion of Peace and Empire

Wesley Gustavson, The University of Western Ontario

4:00 PM

Silent Memorials: The Great War in Hemingway's A Moveable Feast

Tony Fong, University of Toronto

4:00 PM

The Strange, Second Death of Lewis R. Yealland

Dennis Duffy, University of Toronto

4:00 PM

The View From Vimy Ridge

Rebecca Campbell, The University of Western Ontario

4:00 PM

The War that Never Was: Alternate Histories of the Great War

Nick Milne, University of Ottawa

4:00 PM

7:00 PM

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

Mark Connelly, University of Kent

Gunnery Ballroom

7:00 PM