GLGW Events 2017-2018

GLGW Seminar Location: History Faculty, Rees Davies Room (unless otherwise stated)
Days and times: Thursdays, 16.00-17.30 (unless otherwise stated)
Non-Oxford attendees are very welcome to our seminars; we request they please RSVP to convenors Dr. Jeanette Atkinson & Hanna Smyth, glgwevents@history.ox.ac.uk

Trinity: GLGW term card Trinity 2018

RESCHEDULED FROM LAST TERM: Week 0 (19 April) – Dr. Anna Maguire (King’s College London)
Travelling to War: Journey, Distance and Encounter in the Experiences of Troops from New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies (Colin Matthew Room)

Week 1 (26 April) – Dr. Dan Todman (Queen Mary University of London), ‘I didn’t really feel like Dan taught us anything’: Undergraduate researchers and the history of London at war

Week 2 (3 May) – Dr. Lynsey Shaw Cobden (Air Historical Branch RAF), The Nervous Flyer: Nerves, Flying and the First World War

Week 3 (10 May) – Dr. Joanne Stober (Canadian War Museum), In the Service of War: the artist and photographs of the First World War (Gerry Martin Room)

Week 4 (17 May) – Symposium: Constructing Messages of War
2-5pm, Rees Davies Room, Oxford History Faculty
Exploring how messages about the First and Second World Wars are conveyed through print culture, spiritualism, material culture, and teaching. Speakers: David Nash, Vincent Trott, Sarah Wearne, Susannah Wright. Jointly organised with Oxford Brookes University.
Free and open to all, but registration essential – email glgwevents@history.ox.ac.uk
Download poster: Constructing Messages of War poster 17.5.18

Week 5 (24 May) – Dr. James Wallis (University of Essex), A Space of Conflict? Commemorating the First World War at London’s Imperial War Museum (Gerry Martin Room)

Week 6 (31 May) – Dr. Paola Filippucci (University of Cambridge, Anthropology & Archaeology), Globalising and Localising the Great War: The view from the battlefields

Week 7 (7 June) – Prof Annette Becker (Paris-Nanterre), Civilians in ordeal: From local situations to globalised war

Week 8 (14 June) – Prof Mark Connelly (University of Kent), Making Celluloid War Memorials: The battle reconstruction films of British Instructional Films, 1919-1929 (Gerry Martin Room)

 

Hilary: GLGW Term Card HT 2018

Week 1 (18 Jan) – Dr. Romain Fathi (Flinders University / Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po), When the war is over: Burying the war dead in 1919
Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

Week 2 (25 Jan) – Hannah Mawdsley (Queen Mary University London / Imperial War Museum), The Health of Nation: Influenza and Nationhood in Australia at the end of the First World War

Week 3 (1 Feb) – Dr. Nicholas Márquez-Grant (Cranfield Forensic Institute), The Role of Forensic Anthropology in Identifying the Missing
Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

Week 4 (8 Feb) – Symposium – Egypt in the First World War, 1911-1924. Speakers & discussants:
Aaron Jakes (The New School): The Balance Sheet of Empire
Christopher Rose (University of Texas at Austin): Famine, Disease, and Death in Egypt, 1914-1919
Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford): Reading Women in the Great War
Hussein Omar (Pembroke Collge, Oxford): Conscript and Sacrifice: The Political Theology of the 19191 Revolution
Khaled Fahmy (King’s College, University of Cambridge): Remembering the War that never was
2:30pm, Harold Lee Room (Pembroke College, Oxford). Free and open to all. Non-Oxford attendees please RSVP to organiser Dr. Hussein Omar at hussein.omar@history.ox.ac.uk. Please note different start time and location.
Week 5 (15 Feb) – No seminar.

Week 6 (22 Feb) – Dr. Anna Maguire (King’s College London), Travelling to War: Journey, Distance and Encounter in the Experiences of Troops from New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE UCU STRIKE.

Week 7 (1 Mar) – Symposium – Constructing Messages of War. Joint event with Oxford Brookes, co-organised by Dr. Jane Potter and Dr. Susannah Wright. Exploring how messages about war are conveyed through print culture, material culture, and teaching.
Speakers:
Hanna Smyth (Oxford): Messages and the Missing: Battlefield commemoration and constructions of identity
Vincent Trott (Oxford Brookes / Open University): The Divided Marketplace: Publishers and the First World War, 1919-1930
Sarah Wearne (author): Messages from the Grave
Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes): Internationalist messages of war: The League of Nations Union in the interwar years
2-5pm, The Green Room, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University. Free, but registration necessary for all attendees. Please contact glgwevents@history.ox.ac.uk to register. Please note different start time and location.
Download poster: Constructing Messages of War poster
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SYMPOSIUM HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

Week 8 (8 Mar) – Dr. Claire Morelon (University of Padova), Patriotism and Social Order: Armed Associations in Habsburg Austria, 1900-1918

 

Michaelmas: MT Term Card GLGW

GLGW Seminar Location: History Faculty, Colin Matthew Room
Days and times: Thursdays, 16.00-17.30

11 October, 17:30-19:30 – Event – Apparitions at Fatima, 1917-2017: A Century after the “Miracle of the Sun”. The Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College
Further information here.

Week 1 (12 Oct) – Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford), How many beginnings? Entering the Great War, 1904-1917 – This paper is presented as part of Professor Horne’s Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford
Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

Week 2 (19 Oct) – Dr David Monger (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Know your enemy: British perspectives of German First World War propaganda
Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

21 October, 10.30-19.30 – Workshop – Constance Coltman: Pioneer of Women in Christian Ministry; A centenary celebration, 100th anniversary of the ordination of Constance Coltman. Mansfield and Somerville Colleges, Oxford
Further details here.
Workshop poster: Constance Coltman poster illustrated

Week 3 (26 Oct) – Dr David Monger (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), We cannot keep silent’: the international humanitarian network behind the British Parliamentary Report on the Armenian Genocide
Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

Week 4 (2 Nov) – Dr Emily Robertson (Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales), Merciless Humanitarians: Atrocity propaganda, liberalism and the First World War in Great Britain and Australia
Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty (NB room only available from 16.00)

Week 5 (9 Nov) – Dr Emma Login (Historic England), The First World War and the Avengers of 1870: memorialising a global conflict in eastern France
Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

15 November, from 17.15 – joint session with the History of War seminar series, Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford), Empires and Occupations: The Global Dynamics of the Illiberal Wartime State during the First World War – This paper is presented as part of Professor Horne’s Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford. Wharton Room, All Souls College
History of War seminar series poster: HoW seminars 1718 MT

Week 6 (16 Nov) – Dr. Layla Renshaw (Kingston University), Relating to the Dead: Mass Grave Excavations, DNA and the Construction of Memory at Fromelles
Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

17 November, 09.00-20.15 – Conference – Conscription and its Malcontents in the First World War. St Peter’s College, Oxford. Contact: conscription@history.ox.ac.uk
Conference poster: Poster, Conscription and its Malcontents in the First World War, 17 Nov. 2017
Conference programme: Programme, Conscription and its Malcontents in the First World War, 17 Nov. 2017

Week 7 (23 Nov) – Dr. Matthew Leonard (University of Bristol & Cirencester College), Conflicting Memories: From Remembrance Poppy to Worker Bee
Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

28 November, 16.00-17.30 – Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford), War as Revolution, 1914-1923, valedictory lecture as finale of Professor Horne’s Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford. Lecture Theatre, History Faculty, followed by drinks reception from 17.30-19.00, Joan Thirsk Common Room, History Faculty. The drinks reception will be combined with a book launch for Professor Toby Garfitt‘s edited volume Writing the Great War. He will give a short talk about the book at 18.00. The drinks reception is generously supported by the Faculty of History and Peter Lang Limited.

Week 8 (30 Nov-1 Dec) – Closed Workshop – Anglo/Belgian Great War Research Exchange, Pembroke College, followed by tour of Oxford on the Friday afternoon by First World War historian Dr Malcolm Graham.
The workshop is generously supported by Pembroke College, St John’s College and the Faculty of History.

Home Front Legacy (@homefrontlegacy) 03/11/2017, 12:30
Belgian boys at St John’s College, Oxford University, where they are being educated by Belgian schoolmasters. November 1917 © IWM (Q 30268) pic.twitter.com/5yoGb35wZK