Call for abstracts: Perspectives on the =?windows-1252?Q?=93Great=94_War_/_R=FCckblick_?=auf den Ersten Weltkrieg

[James Essex]

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On 26 March 2012 16:39, World War I Conference <ww1conference at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
>
> Perspectives on the “Great” War
> Rückblick auf den Ersten Weltkrieg
>
> Queen Mary, University of London
> August 1.-4. 2014
>
> Following an initial announcement and having found a considerable level of
> interest, we are now able to provide further information about this
> interdisciplinary conference.
>
> We apologize for future multiple cross-postings. It is our intention to
> host a major event which will stimulate and support scholarship well into
> the future. We therefore aim to advertise widely and repeatedly. The ideal
> objective will be the formation of an international scholarly community
> with its own digital presence and programme of events to follow up what
> could be an initial gathering of colleagues with similar interests.
>
> The key-note speakers will be:
>
> - Professor Elza Adamowicz (London)
> - Professor Christopher Clark (Cambridge)
> - Professor Jonathan Steinberg (Pennsylvania)
> - Professor Sam Williamson (Sewanee History Project)
>
>
> Broad Topics
>
> Political and military history; colonial history; social and cultural
> history; religious history; medical science and technology; historiography;
> discourse analysis; legacy, memory and 21st-century cultural reflexes.
> Within these areas, the following perspectives have presented themselves
> for debate:
>
> - the perspectives of Germany and Austria, Great Britain, the U.S.A,
> Ireland, the Middle East and India, Australia and New Zealand, the African
> colonies of both Germany and Britain; the Balkan, Polish and Russian
> perspectives and the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese perspectives
> - the Jewish perspective
> - confessional perspectives
> - the perspectives of occupied territories
> - gendered perspectives
> - the perspectives of artists, including Otto Dix, A.Y. Jackson
> - the perspectives of various authors, including Bertha von Suttner,
> Alfred Döblin, Ernst Jünger, Robert Musil
> - the Nazi perspective
>
> Within the above broad topics and perspectives, papers on the following
> specific themes have been offered:
>
> British cinema, tourism, advertising, art, literature, memory, occupation,
> resistance, espionage and collaboration
>
> We have received many offers to chair panels and will approach the
> generous colleagues in due course.
>
>
> Abstracts
>
> Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, including references. It
> will be of great assistance to the organisers if proposals are as concise
> as possible (i.e. fitting onto one sheet of A4 paper). The deadline for
> submission of abstracts is 1st September 2012.
>
>
> Conference Web-site
>
> A conference web-site will be set up very shortly and we will send a link
> to all those colleagues on our mailing list. We also hope to organize an
> H-Net (or similar) presence very soon.
>
>
> Funding and fees
>
> Our university will be able to provide some funding, but cannot promise to
> fund the entire event or pay speakers' expenses. We may therefore have to
> charge a fee to cover our internal expenses, but we will keep this as small
> as possible. We will charge a reduced fee for students.
>
> Once we have drawn up a provisional programme we will be able to apply for
> additional funding from the usual suspects. In the past we have received
> funding from the German Embassy, the Austrian Cultural Forum and Queen
> Mary's School of Languages, Linguistics and Film. Any further ideas as to
> whom we may approach (or, indeed, generous offers of support!) will be
> welcomed. At our last conference we were awarded a grant just one week
> before the conference took place and we were therefore able to pay for all
> meals, so there is always hope that we will find generous sponsors if we
> keep trying.
>
>
> Publication
>
> We cannot promise to publish all conference papers, but we intend at the
> very least to produce one collection of refereed articles. We have already
> received one promising offer, and we will compare this with those from
> other publishers over the following months.
>
> Further desiderata
>
> Someone to speak on digital resources; for more German and French
> colleagues to hear about the event; offers of collaboration from interested
> institutions,
>
> Please continue to address all inquiries to
>
> Prof. Felicity Rash
> f.j.rash at qmul.ac.uk
>
> or
>
> Dr Falco Pfalzgraf
> f.pfalzgraf at qmul.ac.uk
>
>
>
>


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James Essex
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