The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, Continuities and Memories

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The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, Continuities and Memories

Veranstalter
Volkswagen Foundation
Veranstaltungsort
Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany
Ort
Hanover
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
08.05.2017 - 10.05.2017
Website
https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/events/calendar-of-events/details-of-events/news/detail/artikel/the-long-end-of-the-first-world-war-ruptures-continuities-and-memories/marginal/5006.html
Von
Tina Walsweer

The Herrenhausen Symposium "The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, continuities and memories" takes place in Hanover from May 8-10, 2017. It focuses on the relation between global history and social history, highlighting actors and regions, and it systematically engages with the issue of diverse periodizations. In discussing linkages between experience, historiography, and commemoration, the symposium aims at unsettling the notion of a static and clearly defined "end" of the First World War, a construct mainly based on European developments.

While the armistice of November 11, 1918 marked the end of fighting on the Western Front, the case was different in other parts of the world, particularly in the former Russian and Ottoman Empires as well as in East Africa, where armed conflicts related to the destruction and re-formation of political orders persisted, in some parts even for several years. These struggles affected daily life and biographical trajectories as well as local perceptions, representations and interpretations of the War. Which events or developments marked the "end" of the war? How did the processes which marked the end of the War differ regionally, and how did prisoners of war, demobilized soldiers, women, or children from and in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East perceive and experience the "end"? How did this "end" influence new networks, social movements, society, economic processes, or ecological developments? And how were these questions discussed by contemporary intellectuals in Asia, Africa or the Middle East?

With the centennial of the outbreak of the War in 1914 and the increasing temporal distance it conveys, the nature of remembrance, too, is changing. The centennial in 2014 was marked by extensive commemoration activities in many parts of the world, not only on various political levels but also in the media, in the fields of literature and in the arts. The symposium asks whether and how they shaped contemporary dialogues on commemoration, not only in Asia, Africa, or Latin America but also in Europe. Can the loss of "Zeitzeugen" be compensated by the use of electronic and other media? And: does this make transnational commemoration easier (or more difficult)? We are particularly interested in issues and questions of what could be called "non-memory", forgotten or submerged memories. What is written out of historical narratives and what is being rediscovered? In this respect, the symposium will also discuss questions of changing memories and contested commemorations.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Session 1: Post-War Political Frameworks, Networks and Movements
Session 2: New Fault Lines, New Wars
Session 3: The Shaping of Cultural Memories
Session 4: Humanitarianism
Session 5: Ecological Impacts of the War
Session 6: Reversed Attitudes
Session 7: Remembrance without "Zeitzeugen"?
Session 8: Sharing History: Museums and Exhibitions
Session 9: New Historiographies
Session 10: Towards a New Chronology

TRAVEL GRANTS

The Volkswagen Foundation offers travel grants for PhD students researching on the First World War in an outer-European perspective. Applicants can win one of six travel grants to take part in the Herrenhausen Symposium "The Long End of the First World War" in Hanover, Germany. The deadline for applications is November 1, 2016. Successful applicants will get the chance to discuss their research with senior scholars in a special PhD session on May 8, 2017 and shortly present their main argument in the plenum. Their posters on the PhD project will be displayed during the symposium. The grants include travel expenses to and from Hanover, visa fees (if applicable), as well as accommodation in Hanover. Please read the pdf in the column on the right for more information.

REGISTRATION

If you would like to attend the conference, please register by clicking on the registration link in the column on the right. There are no fees for attendance but registration is essential.

LANGUAGE

The conference language is English.

VENUE

The conference is held at Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover, Germany.

Programm

MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017

1:00 p.m.

Welcome Addresses
Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation
Andreas Gestrich, Director, German Historical Institute London

Introduction
Ulrike Freitag, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany

SESSION 1: Post-War Political Frameworks, Networks and Movements (Chair: Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto)

1:20 p.m.
Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba: The First World War as a Crisis of the Imperial Order
Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina: The shaping of transnational racial and civilizational identities in the Middle East and/or the Far East

New Research Projects (Chairs: John Horne, Trinity College Dublin, and Heather Jones, London School of Economics)

2:45 p.m.
Young researchers present their posters in a short talk

3:30 p.m.
Coffee Break and Poster Session

SESSION 2: New Fault Lines, New Wars (Chair: Michael Provence, UC San Diego)

4:00 p.m.
Yang Biao, East China Normal University, Shanghai: East Asian History Wars as a Legacy of the First World War
Dan Tamir, Ben Gurion University of the Negev: Oil and the First World War: Beginning of a New Age
Felix Brahm, German Historical Institute London: The physical and mental presence of arms and demilitarization in East Africa

6:00 p.m.
Coffee Break and Poster Session

SESSION 3: Arab Liberalism in the 1920s (Chair: Astrid Meier, Orient Institute Beirut)

6:30 p.m.
Elizabeth F. Thompson, Farsi Chair in Islamic Peace, American University in Washington, DC

7:30p.m.
Dinner

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2017

SESSION 4: Humanitarianism (Chair: Maria Framke, University of Rostock)

9:00 a.m.
Francesca Piana, SUNY Binghamton University: International and Transnational Initiatives on behalf of Prisoners of War and Refugees at the End of the First World War
Alexandra Pfeiff, EUI Florence: Humanitarianism and China

10:30a. m.
Coffee Break

SESSION 5: Ecological Impacts of the War (Chair: Chris Gratien, Harvard University)

11:00 a.m.
Iftekhar Iqbal, Universiti Brunei Darussalam: Environmental Impact of the First World War with a Focus on South Asia
Steven Serels, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany: The Long Term Impacts of the First World War on the Food Security of the Southern Red Sea Region

12:30 p.m.
Lunch Break

SESSION 6: Reversed Attitudes (Chair: Torsten Weber, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo)

2:30 p.m.
Daniel Steinbach, King's College London: Interaction between African, Indian, and European Soldiers and Civilians in the Colonial Theatres of War
Andrea Germer, Kyushu University: Women in Post-World War One Japan

4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break

SESSION 7: Remembrance without "Zeitzeugen"? (Chair: Santanu Das, King's College London)

4:30 p.m.
Julia Tieke, Deutschlandradio Kultur and others: Digging Deep, Crossing Far - The First World War from the Radio to Sound Art
Min Yong-Eung, EBS South Korea: "Forgotten Soldiers of Empire" - The First World War as a Film Documentary
Kerstin Schwedes, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research: The First World War in International Textbooks

6:00 p.m.
Dinner

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017

SESSION 8: Sharing History: Museums and Exhibitions (Chair: Leonard Smith, Oberlin College, USA)

9:00 a.m.
Jasdeep Singh, The National Army Museum, London: War and Sikhs: Road to the Trenches
Franziska Dunkel, Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg: "Carnival of Hell". The First World War and the Senses
Oxana Nagornaja, South Ural Institute of Management and Economics: Exhibitions on the First World War in Russia

10:30 a.m.
Coffee Break

SESSION 9: New Historiographies (Chair: Christine Hatzky, University of Hanover)

11:00a.m.
Michael Epkenhans, Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam: The First World Wan Commemoration, New Research and Debates during the Centennial in Europe
Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange and Heike Liebau, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany: The First World Wan Commemoration, New Research and Debates during the Centennial in East Africa, the Middle East and India

SESSION 10: Towards a New Chronology (Chair Andreas Gestrich, German Historical Institute London)

12:15 p.m.
Santanu Das, King's College London
Ulrike Freitag, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto
Michael Provence, UC San Diego
Brigitte Reinwald, University of Hanover
Torsten Weber, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo

Closing Remarks

1:10 p.m.
Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation

1:15 p.m.
Lunch and End of Conference

Kontakt

Anorthe Kremers

Volkswagen Foundation
Kastanienallee 35, 30519 Hanover, Germany
+49 (0)511/8381-260
+49 (0)511/8381-4260
kremers@volkswagenstiftung.de

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