‘The Academic World in the Era of the Great War’ is a major international conference taking place at Trinity College Dublin between 14 and 16 August, co-organised by Dr. Tomas Irish (TCD) and Dr. Marie-Eve Chagnon (Université de Montréal).
The conference will address scholarly engagement in the war in a comparative, inter disciplinary, and transnational manner. A full draft programme can be found below.
For details on how to register, please email academicworldconference@gmail.com. Registration costs EURO 50 (and an additional EURO 40 for the conference dinner – places limited) and must be made no later than 1 August 2014.
Venue: The Trinity Long Room Hub
Further details: http://www.tcd.ie/warstudies/conferences
Contact: academicworldconference@gmail.com
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The Academic World in the Era of the Great War
Thursday, 14 August 2014
15.00-16.00: Registration
16.00-16.15 Welcome and Introductory Remarks (Marie-Eve Chagnon and Tomás Irish).
16.15-18.00
I. Mobilizing Intellect from East to West
Chair/Respondent: Alan Kramer (TCD)
Andrew Barros, (UQAM) Echoes, Reverberations and Dissonances: The Mobilisation, Remobilisation, and Demobilisation of History from East to West (Germany, France, Britain, and the United States), 1914-1919
Gabriela A. Frei, (Oxford) International Law and the Great War. A Discipline in the Crossfire of Critique.
Sakiko Kaiga, (KCL) A Forlorn Hope of Peace: Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, an Intellectual Father of the League of Nations, 1914-1918.
18.00-20.00: Reception and opening remarks by Dr. Patrick J. Prendergast, Provost, TCD.
Friday 15 August 2014
9.00 – 10.45
II. Institutional Experiences in a World at War
Chair/Respondent: Pierre Purseigle (University of Warwick).
Andreas Golob, (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz): Propagandistic Popularization and Pure Scholarship. Graz University professors as lecturers of the university-extension movement and academic teachers.
Alexander Dmitriev, (Moscow Higher School of Economics): National School, Junior Faculty and Academic Self-Assertion: Russian Scholars on Educational Reforms during Great War
Tomás Irish, (Trinity College Dublin): Trinity College Dublin: An Imperial University in War and Revolution.
11.00-12.45
III. Making a better World? The Social Sciences face a global conflict
Chair/Respondent: John Horne (TCD)
Andrew M. Johnston, (Carleton University): American Sociologists and international Sociology during the First World War.
Brian M. Foster, (Mount Saint Vincent University): The Birth of Non-State International Expert: American Social Science and Preparations for Peace after the Great War.
Christina Theodosiou, (Université Paris-1): The influence of the Great War on Waldemar Deonna’s work
12.45-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.45
IV. Between the Nation-State and the Universe: Natural Science at War
Chair/Respondent: Roy MacLeod (University of Sydney)
Heather Ellis, (Liverpool Hope): British Science in War: Measuring and Reshaping British Manhood, 1914-1919.
Kenneth Bertrams, (Université Libre de Bruxelles): Politics of Nature: World War I and the Solvay Conferences on Physics and Chemistry, 1911-1926.
Marie-Eve Chagnon, (Université de Montréal) : The End of Scientific Internationalism. The Process of Demobilisation of the International Scientific Community (1917-1919).
16.00-17.45
Keynote speaker: Martha Hanna, (University of Colorado, Boulder): Practical Reason: The Mobilization of McGill University’s Medical Faculty, 1914 – 1918.
20.00 Conference Dinner
Saturday 16 August
9.00-10.45
V. Identity and Gender Politics of a World at War :
Chair/Respondent: Martha Hanna (University of Colorado)
Norman Ingram, (Concordia University): Women’s History, Feminist History, Gendered History? Feminist Pacifism and the Paradoxes of the Great War in France
Marlene A. Briggs, (University of British Columbia), Oxford and Cambridge in the 1920s: the Great War and Generational Consciousness in the Memoirs of Vera Brittain and Christopher Isherwood.
Margaret Vining, (Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.), The Great War, the University of Chicago and Sophonista Breckinridge.
Philippa Read, (University of Leeds): “Without Scruple”: The Enfant de l’ennemi Debate in First World War France.
11.00-12.45
VI. Scholarly Networks in War and Peace:
Chair/Respondent: William Mulligan (UCD)
Charlotte A. Lerg, (Ludwig-Maximilliams-Universität München): Fractions of Academic Identity: The German “Propaganda Professors” on the American Campus and Beyond
Annelies Lannoy, (Ghent University): “Guerre et Religion”. History of Christianity and the Great War according to the Correspondence of Franz Cumont and Alfred Loisy.
Tara Windsor, (Wuppertal): Studying (with) the Former Enemy: Anglo-German Academic Exchange after the Great War.
12.45-13.45: Lunch
14.00-15.45
VII. Cultural Demobilization and the Aftermath of the Great War:
Chair/Respondent: Norman Ingram (Concordia)
Elisabeth Piller, (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) : “Can the Science of the World Allow this?” –German Academic Distress, Foreign Aid and International Relations, 1919-24.
Julia Roos, (Indiana University): International Debates over Atrocity Propaganda in the Aftermath of the Great War: A Contribution to Cultural Demobilization?
Mona Siegel, (California State University): Negotiated Truth: The Franco-German Historians Agreement of 1951 and the Long History of Cultural Demobilization after the First World War.
16.00-17.45
VIII. Roundtable Discussion
17.45-18.00
Concluding Remarks