Aftermath: The Cultural Legacies of WW1
21-23 May 2015
Strand Campus, King’s College London
Conference Programme
Welcome
This conference is part of the on-going collaboration between King's College London and
the University of North Carolina.
In particular, our gathering is the final event in a year-long series of events marking the
centenary of World War I. We kicked off this series last August with a joint King’s-UNC
conference in Chapel Hill that looked at the military conduct of the war. Now we turn to
the aftermath of the war, its multiple and continuing effects in our world.
Our thanks to all our participants and to the units at both King's and UNC that have
provided financial support.
Professor John McGowan (University of North Carolina)
&
Professor Max Saunders (King’s College London)
Conference Conveners
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Thursday 21 May
10.00-11.00 Registration with tea & coffee
Entrance Hall
11.00-12.30 Session 1
Panel A:
Chair: Mihailo Popovic
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Klāvs Zariņš (University of Latvia/Latvian War Museum) - Through Authoritarianism and
Soviet occupation: the Great War, historical research and the myth of the Latvian Riflemen
in Latvia
Liisi Esse (University of Tartu/Stanford University) - Hidden Legacies of the Great War:
The Memory of Estonian War Veterans of WW1 and the War of Independence
Mart Kuldkepp (University of Tartu) - Post-War Geopolitics and the Legacy of the GreatPower Conflict in the Imagination of the Estonian Politicians
Panel B:
Chair: Bill Balthrop
K3.11
Tom Hulme (King’s College London) - ‘And those who live, how shall I tell their fame?’:
Historical Pageants and the First World War in Britain 1918-1960
Jane Wildgoose (The Wildgoose Memorial Library, Kingston University) - Mute
Eloquence: a Journey from Darkness into Light and from Silence into Sound, in reports of
the repatriation and reburial of the Unknown Warrior, and Horace Nicholls’s official
photograph of ‘The Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey, November 1920’
Patrizia Muscogiuri (University of Salford) - ‘Beauty for ashes’: Propaganda, War Artists
and the Frontlines/Shorelines of Modernism
Panel C:
Chair: Max Saunders
K0.18
Alex Belsey (King’s College London) - Perspectives on War in the Journal of Keith
Vaughan
Michael Paraskos (City & Guilds of London Art School) - Herbert Read and the Legacy
of the First World War
Anne-Julia Schoen (King’s College London) - 'A necessary part in the institution of war':
from Conscientious Objection to the Peace Ballot
12.30-13.20 Lunch
Great Hall
13.20 – 13.30 Welcome from John McGowan (University of North Carolina)
& Max Saunders (King’s College London)
K2.31 (Nash)
13.30-14.30 Keynote:
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Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford) - 'All Of Us': D. H. Lawrence's First World
War Poems for the People
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14.30-16.00 Session 2
Panel A:
Chair: TBC
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Andrew Frayn (University of Nottingham) - Counting the Cost: The First World War,
Calculability and Rationalism
Andrea Rummel (University of Giessen) - War, Nation, Civilization: Ford Madox Ford
and Clive Bell
Suzanne Steele (University of Exeter) - Architecture and the Post-war Response to the
Great War Narrative of Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
Panel B:
Chair: Peter Busch
K0.18
Hillary Briffa (King’s College London) - Propaganda in Malta in the First World War:
Demon Kaiser or Colonizer?
Robert Howes (King’s College London) - The Cultural Legacy of the First World War in
Brazil
Alison Fell (University of Leeds) - Cultural Representations of French-African Troops
since WW1
Panel C:
Chair: TBC
K0.19
Andrew Campbell (University of Strathclyde) - Truly Strong Men. W.H. Auden and
Masculinity after WW1
J. Jacob Hoffman (University of Bergen) - A Farewell to Masculinity? Feminization and
Masculine Crisis in Inter-War Novels on WWI
Adam Engel (University of North Carolina) - Crow's Communion: The Spiritual Function
of Wartime Violence in the Poetry of Ted Hughes
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
Great Hall
16.30-17.30 Keynote:
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Bill Balthrop (University of North Carolina) - Distant Memories: America, World War
I and U.S. Cemeteries in Europe
17.30-18.30 Session 3
Panel A:
Chair: David Edgerton
K2.31 (Nash)
Dennis Showalter (Colorado College) - The Culture of Warmaking
Roy MacLeod (University of Sydney) - Science for the Nation, Science for the People:
Legacies and Lessons of the Great War
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Panel B:
Chair: Bart Zielinski
K0.18
Christina Spittel (University of New South Wales) - Paper Gallipolis: Imagining the
Peninsula in Australian Novels, 1916-2014
Burcin Cakir (Glasgow Caledonian University) - Economic and Nationalistic Paradigm:
Turkish Government’s Gallipoli Discourse after 1980s
Panel C:
Chair: Roderick Beaton
K0.19
Mihailo Popovic (Austrian Academy of Sciences) - Cultural Heritage and Cultural
Legacies in the Historical Region of Macedonia during and after WW1
Tomoe Hamazaki (Shinshu University) - Nationalization and Westernization in two Music
Cultures: Turkey and Japan
18.30 Drinks reception & private view of Maggi Hambling: War Requiem & Aftermath
Entrance Hall
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Friday 22 May
9.00-9.30 Registration
Entrance Hall
9.30-11.00 Session 4
Panel A:
Chair: Hope Wolf
K2.31 (Nash)
Lily Ford (Birkbeck College, University of London) - The Emergence of ‘air-mindedness’:
Flight and Aerial Photography 1918-1928
Peter Busch (King’s College London) - Old Voices, New Media: a Critical Engagement
with the Original BBC Interviews recorded for the 1964 The Great War Documentary
Erica Carter (King’s College London) - The Kino-Eye in Combat: German Film Newsreels
of World War I
Panel B:
Chair: Max Saunders
K0.18
Binne de Haan & Hans Renders (University of Groningen) - Tracing the Cultural legacy
of World War 1 in the Arts and Journalism in Biographies
Kumiko Hoshi (Shinshu University) - A. J. A. Symons’ The Quest for Corvo: The Origin of
Metabiography
Panel C:
Chair: John McGowan
K3.11
Ann-Marie Einhaus (Northumbria University) - Cultural Memory, Teaching and
Contemporary Writing about the First World War on the eve of its Centenary
Martin Bayer (Journalist & Curator) - Virtual World War: How the Great War is
Visualised in Computer Games
Lawrence Napper (King’s College London) - ‘The Failure of the Film Thrill’: Authenticity
and the Great War in British films of the 1920s
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
Great Hall
11.30-12.30 Keynote:
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Anne Marie Rafferty & Kate O’Brien (King’s College London) - Mud, Missiles and
Microbes: Nursing in WW1
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Great Hall
13.30-14.30 Keynote:
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David Edgerton (King’s College London) - An Empire of Machines: Britain in the
Interwar Years
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14.30-16.00 Session 5
Panel A:
Chair: Mart Kuldkepp
K3.11
Anna Menyhért (Eötvös Loránd University) - The Image of ‘Maimed Hungary’ in 20th
Century Cultural Memory and the 21st Century Consequences of an Unresolved Collective
Trauma: the Impact of the Treaty of Trianon
Luminiţa Ignat-Coman (Babeş-Bolyai University) - The Changing Social Role of
Transylvanian Women in Romania in the Aftermath of World War I
Oliver Schultz (Independent Researcher) - World War 1 as Breeding Ground for Political
Conflict and Violence in the Balkans: Bulgaria between Communist and Fascist Agitation
(1918-1944)
Panel B:
Chair: Max Saunders
K2.31 (Nash)
Krisztina Sárdi (Péter Pázmány Catholic University) - Paris’s Cultural Role after the Great
War from a Geocritical Point of View
Nur Karatas (King’s College London) - Ford Madox Ford’s ‘Modern Elegy’: ‘Ongoing
Mourning’ in Parade’s End
George Yeats (Regents University London) - Ford's Undoing: The Art of Effacement in
Some Do Not…
Panel C:
Chair: Neil Vickers
K0.18
Robert Bieber (King’s College London) - Reflections on the Impact on Society and how
the Great War was Regarded; Coloured by the Experience of Shell Shock
Caroline Zilboorg (University of Cambridge) - Gregory Zilboorg’s The Passing of the Old
Order: A Russian Jewish Psychoanalyst’s Struggle for Perspective
Akshi Singh (Queen Mary, University of London) - ‘A primitive disaster’: Memories of
WW1 in Psychoanalysis
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
Great Hall
16.30-17.30 Session 6
Panel A:
Chair: Simon Wessely
K2.31 (Nash)
Michael Guida (University of Sussex) - Nature Cure: Cultures of Listening and the
Restoration of Psychological Health in Early Interwar Britain
Ashley Somogyi (University of Durham) - Silence and Sound: Negotiating the
Indescribable in The Great War
Panel B:
Chair: TBC
K0.18
Matthew Adams (University of Victoria, Canada) - Anarchy in the Aftermath: Herbert
Read, George Woodcock, and British Anarchism in the 1930s
Peter Lowe (Queens University, Canada) - Crossing the Rubicon: Roman History and the
Rise of Italian Fascism
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17.30-18.30 Keynote:
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Simon Wessely (King’s College London) - 100 Years of Shellshock: Gone but Doing
Better than Ever
19.00-20.30 Buffet Dinner (optional, must be booked separately) Great Hall
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Saturday 23 May
9.00-9.30 Registration
Entrance Hall
9.30-11.00 Session 7
Panel A:
Chair: Jane Wildgoose
K2.31 (Nash)
Eileen Chanin (King’s College London) - Australian Sculptor Dora Ohlfsen (1869-1948)
made Commemorative Work during and following the Great War - What have we yet to
Learn about the Artistic Legacies of War?
Steven Wright (Independent Researcher) - Why British Architects Couldn’t ‘Go Modern’:
A Cultural Legacy of the Great War
Carolyn Malone (Ball State University) - The Art of Reconstruction: The Arts and Crafts
Movement and Post-World War I British Society
Panel B:
Chair: John McGowan
K0.18
Michael Regan (Lancaster University) - ‘From Scratch’: Palestine and the legacy of World
War I
Troy Paddock (Southern Connecticut State University) - Rethinking the Legacy of
German Militarism and the Great War
John Williams (University of Texas) - The Spoils of the Great War: A Tale of Middle
Eastern Oil, the Anglo-German Naval Arms Race, and the San Remo Mandate
Panel C:
Chair: TBC
K3.11
Catherine Smale (King’s College London) - Transforming Loss: The Aesthetics of Grief in
German Women’s Poetry during and after the First World War (1914-1933)
Margaret Vining and Bart Hacker (Smithsonian Institution) - What Uniforms Meant to
American Women in the Great War: Citizenship and Agency
Sam Haddow (Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London) - ‘Ladies and
Gentlemen, you don't belong here’: Blood + Chocolate and British Remembrance Rituals
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
Great Hall
11.30-12.30 Keynote:
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Santanu Das (King’s College London) - Beyond Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Intellectual
Legacies of the First World War
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Great Hall
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13.30 – 14.30 Keynote:
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Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford) - Beirut on the Stage: the Social History of the
Great War in Four Acts
14.30 – 16.00 Session 8
Panel A:
Chair: John McGowan
K2.31 (Nash)
Hilary Lithgow (University of North Carolina) - Never Such Innocence Again? Critiquing
the Idealization of Irony and the Myth of Disillusionment in Great War Literature
Shawn Tucker (Elon University, North Carolina) - The Wasteland as War Literature:
Verdenal, Aldington, Survivor Guilt, and Freudian Defence Mechanism Humour
Panel B:
Chair: Santanu Das
K3.11
Kazi Rahaman (University of Calcutta) - Impact of the First World War in a Bengal
District: Burdwan
Richard Smith (Goldsmiths, University of London) - West Indian Military Service and
Multicultural Memories of the First World War
David Beus (Brigham Young University, Hawaii) - Gourkas and Tirailleurs in Popular
French Stories of the Great War
16.00-17.00 Closing remarks
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