universität innsbruck
„Other Fronts, other Wars?“
Programm of the 6th Biennial Conference of the
International Society for First World War Studies
Universität Innsbruck, Aula
21. - 23. September 2011
The Conference “Other Fronts, other Wars?”
Wednesday, 21st September 2011
The University of Innsbruck is honoured to organise together with the University of Graz the
6th Biennial Conference of the “International Society for First World War Studies”. After very
successful conferences in Lyon, Oxford, Dublin, Washington D.C. and London, the Society is
now pleased to be meeting in one of the succeeding countries of the Habsburg Empire and in
our host city of Innsbruck.
08.30 – 09.15 Registration
09.15 – 10.00 Opening of the Conference
10.15 – 11.45 Chair: Petra SVOLJŠAK (Ljubljana)
With the title “Other fronts, other wars?” the continuity from the last conference in London
(“Other fronts, other combatants”) is obvious; at the same time “other” fields of the First World
War are in focus. Hereby, the category of “space” stands at the centre of interest, with all its
different and conceivably abstract aspects. The conference aims to further the investigation of
questions regarding topics such as home fronts and everyday history. Additionally, the dominance
of the Western Front, especially in the Anglo-Saxon historical community, will be diversified by
looking at other “front-spaces”, especially but not only in Central and Eastern Europe.
Conference Venue:
University of Innsbruck, Hauptgebäude, Innrain 52 / Christoph-Probst-Platz, Aula
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +43 676 9204849, +43 650 6020605
The International Society for First World War Studies
The International Society for First World War Studies (http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org)
was founded by Jenny Macleod and Pierre Purseigle in 2001 and since then has become an
international network of scholars that spans generations and continents alike. The society
organizes or sponsors conferences, seminars, workshops, reading groups and publications to
promote the study of the First World War, to foster international collaboration, to encourage
the comparative history of the war, and to facilitate exchanges across disciplines and generations of scholars. The society especially encourages young academics to gain a foothold in the
field of First World War Studies and present their various innovative approaches.
In 2010, the society launched its own journal, First World War Studies. In consequence, the
publisher, Taylor and Francis now administers membership subscriptions. Please visit their website to subscribe to the society and the journal: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/offer/rfww-so.asp.
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Panel 1: Front and Occupation
Nicolas PATIN (Paris): A lethal Journey between four Fronts. First World War Experiences of
the Reichstag‘s Deputies • Commentator: Arndt WEINRICH (Paris)
Altay ATLI (Istanbul): Vision of „Winter“ in Ottoman War Narratives: Voices from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe • Commentator: Andrey PAVLOV (St. Petersburg)
Wolfram DORNIK (Graz): The Experience of War and Occupation in Eastern Europe
1914–1921 • Commentator: Jonathan Edward GUMZ (West Point)
11.45 – 13.15
Lunch
13.15 – 14.45
Chair: Rüdiger OVERMANS (Freiburg)
Panel 2: Prisoners of War
Mahon MURPHY (London): Brücken, Beethoven und Baumkuchen: German and AustroHungarian POWs and the Japanese Home Front • Commentator: Hannes LEIDINGER (Wien)
Kate WALTON (Brisbane): The Forgotten Front: Australian POWs in the Ottoman Empire •
Commentator: Jenny MACLEOD (Hull)
Christian STEPPAN (Innsbruck): The Camp Newspaper “Nedelja” as Reflection of Wartime
Experiences of Russian POWs in Austria-Hungary • Commentator: Laurie COHEN (Innsbruck)
14.45 – 15.15
Coffee Break
15.15 – 17.15
Chair: Gerhard HIRSCHFELD (Stuttgart)
Panel 3: Hinterland and Homefront
Patrick J. HOULIHAN (Chicago): Lost Causes: Towards Religious History of the Home Front in
Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914 – 1922 • Commentator: Sabine HARING (Graz)
Rudolf KUCERA (Prague): Preserving Manliness. Bohemian Workers and the Experience of
the home Front • Commentator: Gunda BARTH-SCALMANI (Innsbruck)
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Andrea GRIFFANTE (Vilnius): The Front in Mind. Lithuanians and the Perception of Home
Space during WW1 • Commentator: Petra SVOLJŠAK (Ljubljana)
Eva KRIVANEC (Vienna): War on Stage. Home Front Entertainments in European Metropoles
1914-1918 • Commentator: Martin MOLL (Graz)
17.15 – 17.45
Coffee Break / Reception
Studienverlag and Universitätsverlag Wagner cordially invite all participants to a reception at their stand in the venue-lobby and would bevery pleased to welcome you
with an “apéro”. They are looking forward to interesting discussions and networking!
17.45 – 18.45 Panel 4: Urban Spaces
Chair: Gunda BARTH-SCALMANI (Innsbruck)
Felicita RATTI (Salzburg): Modena and Salzburg during and after FWW. The case of
mobilization of urban elites and bourgeoisie during the world and in the aftermath
• Commentator: Monika STROMBERGER (Graz)
Bernhard LIEMANN (Münster): Provincial Cities at War. Local Public Spheres in German, Belgian and
Dutch Towns in the Border Region Compared (1914–1919) • Commentator: Harald POTEMPA (Potsdam)
19.30
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner is held at the restaurant „Goldener Adler“ and is sponsored by
the city of Innsbruck and the province of Tirol.
Thursday, 22nd September 2011
09.30 – 10.30
Panel 5: Documentation and Commemoration
Chair: Eleonore Lappin-Eppel (Wien)
Beatriz PICHEL (Madrid): Photographic Albums as Sites of Emotional Memory. The Amateur
Practice during the WW1 in France • Commentator: Lisa BUDREAU (Kansas City)
Katarina RELIC (Toronto): In the Name of Father and Son: Commemoration, Repression,
Obsession and the WW1 in Serbia • Commentator: Werner SUPPANZ (Graz)
Christopher GILLEY (Regensburg): Ukrainian Warlordism during the Russian Civil War
Vasilii KASHIRIN (Moscow): The Dobrudzha Expedition in Autumn 1916: An Unknown
Campaign by Russian Troops South of the Dunai
12.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 16.00
Chair: Werner Suppanz (Graz)
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Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.00
Panel 6: Russia and the First World War
Chair: Anthony HEYWOOD (Aberdeen)
Panel 7: Medicine, Health and Welfare
Indira DURAKOVIC (Graz): Serbia as a Threat to Europe’s Health. The Epidemic Typhus of
1914/15 • Commentator: Leo VAN BERGEN (Amsterdam)
Philipp RAUH (Nuremberg-Erlangen)/Cay Rüdiger PRÜLL (Heidelberg): Other Fronts,
other Diseases? Comparisons of front-specific Practices in Medical Treatment • Commentator:
Hans-Georg HOFER (Bonn)
Andrea MCKENZIE (New York): Our common colonial voices! Nation and Canadian Nurses
on Lemnos 1915 • Commentator: Karin SCHMIDLECHNER-LIENHART (Graz)
Ke-chin HSIA (Chicago): Care provisions for wounded and disabled soldiers in WW1 Austria:
Revisting Civil Society-State Relationship • Commentator: Pierre PURSEIGLE (Birmingham)
16.00 – 16.30
Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00
Chair: Pierre PURSEIGLE (Birmingham)
Panel 8: Alliances and Coalitions
Franziska HEIMBURGER (Paris/Dublin): Mapping Language Space in the Allied Coalition on
the Western Front • Commentator: Alexandra LUDEWIG (Perth)
Jan VERMEIREN (London): The „Prussians of the South-East“: Imperial Germany and the
Hungarian Alliance 1914-1918 • Commentator: Mark CORNWALL (Southampton)
Giorgio ROTA (Vienna): Moderate Expectations and not-so-bitter Disappointment: on the Role of
Austria-Hungary in Neutral Persia during the Great War • Commentator: Wim KLINKERT (Amsterdam)
18.00 – 18.15
10.30 – 11.00
Discussant: J.W. STEINBERG (Statesboro)
Coffee Break
18.15 – 19.15
Keynote (Hörsaal F)
Mark CORNWALL (Southampton): The Habsburg Monarchy‘s Final Crisis: from Loyalty to
Liquidation 1914-1918
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Friday, 23rd September 2011
09.00 – 11.00
Panel 9: Economic Mobilization
Tour guide: Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Innsbruck)
Chair: Samuel KRUIZINGA (Amsterdam)
Stephan LEHNSTAEDT (Warsaw): Two Kinds of Occupation? German and Austrian Economic Policies in Poland 1915–1918 • Commentator: Helmut KUZMICS (Graz)
Ana Paula PIRES (Lisbon)/Maria Fernando ROLLO (Lisbon): Other Fronts, different Arms:
Economic Mobilization for War. The Portuguese Case • Commentator: Samuel KRUIZINGA
(Amsterdam)
Ekatarina ROMANOVA (Moscow): Perception of War Burden sharing in the Russian Society
during WW1 1914–1917 • Commentator: Reinhard NACHTIGAL (Freiburg)
Paul SIMMONS (Oxford): Desertion in the Russian Army in 1914-1917 • Commentator:
Reinhard NACHTIGAL (Freiburg)
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.00
Chair: Dirk RUPNOW (Innsbruck)
In order to give conference participants the unique opportunity to get a glimpse of “another
front” in the true sense of the word, the organisational team has planned a two day field trip
into one of the most spectacular combat zones of the First World War: the Dolomite mountains (nowadays northern Italy), which have recently been declared UNESCO World Heritage.
Those who have registered will be able to explore the former frontline around the Passo Falzarego, Sasso di Stria (Hexenstein) and Piccolo Lagazuoi (Kleiner Lagazuoi). Here, the remains of
the trench and mine warfare between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies can be visited
at an elevation of over 2000 metres.
Additional topics addressed during the field trip are, among others, the building of railways
and cable cars in order to secure supplies for the troops as well as remembrance and exploitation of the First World War during Fascism.
Panel 10: Media and Propaganda
Elisabeth HAID (Vienna): Conquest or Liberation? Galicia as Object of Wartime Propaganda
in the Austrian and Russian Press • Commentator: Harald BINDER (Vienna)
Maciej GÓRNY (Warsaw): A war between Allies. Polish and Ukrainian Scientists and the
national Propaganda 1914–1923 • Commentator: Anna Veronika WENDLAND (Jena)
Bernhard BACHINGER (Graz): The Construction of the Image of Self and of the Enemy
in the Austrian Press with Reference to the Macedonian Front • Commentator: Harald
POTEMPA (Potsdam)
Tilman LÜDKE (Freiburg): Strange Fronts, strange Wars: the Battle for „Islam“ between
Germany and the Allies in the Middle East during WW1 • Commentator: Bjarne Søndergaard
BENDTSEN (Odense)
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 15.30
Roundtable:
The First World War from 21st century perspective
Chair: Gerhard HIRSCHFELD
Gunda BARTH-SCALMANI/Alun EDWARDS/Ellen GEISRIEGLER/Pierre PURSEIGLE/Irina RENZ
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The Field Trip (24th and 25th September 2011)
Organisational team
Joachim Bürgschwentner, University of Innsbruck
Matthias Egger, University of Innsbruck
Nicole-Melanie Goll, University of Graz / Andrássy University Budapest
Georg Hoffmann, University of Graz / Andrássy University Budapest
Philipp Lesiak, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for the Research of War Concequences
Brigitte Strauß, Museums of the Province of South Tyrol
Academic support
Gunda Barth-Scalmani, University of Innsbruck
Dieter A. Binder, University of Graz / Andrássy University Budapest
Laurie Cohen, University of Innsbruck
Helmut Konrad, University of Graz
Hermann J. W. Kuprian, University of Innsbruck
Werner Suppanz, University of Graz
Oswald Überegger, University of Hildesheim
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Organised and supported by:
Main supporters:
Other supporters:
Universitätsverlag Wagner
KÖLL
Markt Bründl, Höhenstr. 125, 6020 Innsbruck
Impressum:
Organisationsteam 6. Konferenz der „International Society for First World War Studies“
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie, Universität Innsbruck, Innrain 52
http://www.zeg-ibk.at/firstworldwar/start
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© BfÖ 2011
Bildnachweis: Sammlung Matthias Egger
Grafische Gestaltung: Büro für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Kulturservice, Melanie Staffner