Trinity College Dublin Centre for War Studies Seminar Series, 2010-11 Methodologies in the Study of War in the Twentieth Century
Spring Sessions:
Friday, January 28 th , Seminar 3: ‘Violence: Legitimacy and Illegitimacy’:
- Daniel Steinbach (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Whites behind Wire - Questions of Nationalism, Internationalism and Racism in Colonial Africa during the Great War.’
- Mahon Murphy (London School of Economics), ‘Imagined Communities: Life in German POW Camps in Japan during the First World War.’
o Arts Building, Room 3106, 16.00-18.00.
Thursday, February 3 rd , Seminar 4: ‘Organisation: Control and Chaos’:
- Peter Grant (Cass Business School, City University, London), ‘Transforming Managerial Change in the First World War: The Mobilization of Charity in Great Britain’
- Bjarne Bendtsen (University of South Denmark), ‘The image of the “profiteer” in the formulation of “war experiences”: The case of neutral countries during the Great War.’
o Arts Building, Room A.6009, 16.00-18.00.
Thursday, February 17 th , Seminar 5: ‘Belligerency and Neutrality’:
- Kevin O’ Sullivan (University College Dublin), ‘Small States, Foreign Aid and the Cold War.’ - Samuel Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam), ‘European Neutrals and the Economic War (1914-1918): Towards a comparative framework.’
o Arts Building, Room A.6009, 16.00-18.00.
Friday, March 11 th , Seminar 6: ‘Everyday life: Continuity and Disjuncture’:
- Marco Mondini (University of Padova), ‘Paper Heroes: Letters from the Italian Front during the First World War and the Construction of a Masculine Ideal Warrior.’
- Franziska Heimburger (EHESS, Paris), ‘ “Intercrossings intrinsic to the subject”: Military Language Policy and Usage as a way of approaching the Allied coalition during the First World War.’
o Long Room Hub Seminar Room, 14.00- 16.00.
Friday, March 25 th , Seminar 7: ‘Victory and Defeat’:
- Felix Römer (University of Mainz), ‘Military Ethos in the Face of Defeat. The German Wehrmacht, 1944/45.’
- Second Speaker TBC
o Arts Building, Room 5033, 14.00-16.00.
Friday, April 1 st , Seminar 8: ‘Remembrance and Amnesia’:
- Tobias Temming (University of Münster), ‘Remembrance and Amnesia or Identity and Trauma? Visual History of anti-fascist resistance in German and Dutch post-war cinema, 1945 - 1965.’ - Benjamin Möckel (University of Göttingen), ‘The Social Construction of Silence in Post- World War Two Germany.’
o Long Room Hub Seminar Room, 14.00- 16.00.