This timetable is still provisional, and elements may be subject to change!
Wednesday, 21st September
8.30 – 9.15 Registration
9.15 – 10.00 Opening the Conference
10.15 – 11.45 Panel 1 „Front and Occupation“
Chair: Petra Svoljšak (Ljubljana)
Nicolas Patin (Paris), A world of enemies: the experience of different fronts in Reichstag MP´s war
Commentator: Arndt Weinrich (Paris)
Altay Atli (Istanbul): Vision of "Winter" in Ottoman War Narratives: Voices from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe
Commentator: Andrey Pavlov (St. Petersburg)
Wolfram Dornik (Graz): The experience of war and occupation in Eastern Europe 1914–1921
Commentator: Jonathan Edward Gumz (West Point)
13.15 – 14.45 Panel 2 „Prisoners of War“
Chair: Rüdiger Overmans (Freiburg)
Mahon Murphy (London): Brücken, Beethoven und Baumkuchen: German and Austro-Hungarian POWs and the Japanese home front
Commentator: Hannes Leidinger (Wien)
Kate Walton (Brisbane): The forgotten front: Australian POWs in the Ottoman Empire
Commentator: Jenny Macleod (Hull)
Christian Steppan (Innsbruck):The camp newspaper “Nedelja” as reflection of wartime experiences of Russian POWs in Austria-Hungary
Commentator: Laurie Cohen (Innsbruck)
15.15 – 17.15 Panel 3 „Hinterland and Homefront“
Chair: Gerhard Hirschfeld (Stuttgart)
Patrick J. Houlihan (Chicago): Lost Causes: Towards Religious History of the Home Front in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914 – 1922
Commentator: Sabine Haring (Graz)
Rudolf Kucera (Prague): Preserving Manliness. Bohemian Workers and the Experience of the home Front
Commentator: Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Innsbruck)
Andrea Griffante (Vilnius): The Front in Mind. Lithuanians and the Perception of Home Space during WW1
Commentator: Petra Svoljšak (Ljubljana)
Eva Krivanec (Vienna): War on Stage. Home Front Entertainments in European Metropoles 1914-1918
Commentator: Martin Moll (Graz)
17.45 – 18.45 Panel 4 „Urban Spaces“
Chair: Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Innsbruck)
Felicita Ratti (Salzburg): Modena and Salzburg during and after FWW. The case of mobilization of urban elites and bourgeoisie during the world and in the aftermath
Commentator: Monika Stromberger (Graz)
Bernhard Liemann (Münster): Provincial cities at war. Local public spheres in German, Belgian and Dutch towns in the border region compared (1914-1919).
Commentator: Harald Potempa (Potsdam)
Thursday, 22nd September
9.00 – 10.30 Panel 5 „Alliances and Coalitions“
Chair: Pierre Purseigle (Birmingham)
Franziska Heimburger (Paris/Dublin): Mapping Language Space in the allied coalition on the Western front
Commentator: Alexandra Ludewig (Perth)
Jan Vermeiren (London): The "Prussians of the South-East": Imperial Germany and the Hungarian Alliance 1914–1918
Commentator: Mark Cornwall (Southampton)
Giorgio Rota (Vienna): "Moderate expectations and not-so-bitter disappointment: on the role of Austria-Hungary in neutral Persia during the Great War"
Commentator: Wim Klinkert (Amsterdam)
11.00 – 12.30 Panel 6 „Russia and the First World War“
Chair: Anthony Heywood ( Aberdeen)
Discussant: J.W. Steinberg (Statesboro)
Paul Simmons (Oxford):Desertion in the Russian Army in 1914-1917
Commentator: Reinhard Nachtigal (Freiburg)
Christopher Gilley: Ukrainian Warlordism during the Russian Civil War
Vasilii Kashirin: The Dobrudzha Expedition in autumn 1916: an unknown campaign by Russian troops south of the Dunai
14.00 – 16.00 Panel 7 „Medicine, Health and Welfare“
Chair: Heather Perry (Charlotte)
Indira Durakovic (Graz): Serbia as a threat to Europe’s health. The epidemic typhus of 1914/15
Commentator: Leo van Bergen (Amsterdam)
Philipp Rauh (Nuremberg-Erlangen)/Cay Rüdiger Prüll (Heidelberg): Other fronts, other diseases? Comparisons of Front-specific Practices in Medical Treatment
Commentator: Hans-Georg Hofer (Bonn)
Ke-chin Hsia (Chicago): Care provisions for wounded and disabled soldiers in WW1 Austria: Revisting Civil Society-State Relationship
Commentator: Pierre Purseigle (Birmingham)
Andrea McKenzie (New York): Our common colonial voices! Nation and Canadian Nurses on Lemnos 1915
Commentator: Karin Schmidlechner-Lienhart (Graz)
16.30 – 18.00 Panel 8 „Documentation and Commemoration“
Chair: Helmut Konrad (Graz)
Beatriz Pichel (Madrid): Photographic albums as sites of emotional memory. The amateur practice during the First WW in France
Commentator: Lisa Budreau (Kansas City)
Katja Škrlj (Ljubljana): Thanks for the Memory: War diaries and memories of Slovenian and Italian “Ordinary People”
Commentator: Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Innsbruck)
Katarina Relic (Toronto): In the name of father and son: Commemoration, repression, obsession and the FWW in Serbia
Commentator: Werner Suppanz (Graz)
18.15 – 19.15 Keynote
Mark Cornwall (Southampton): 'The Habsburg Monarchy's Final Crisis: from Loyalty to Liquidation 1914-1918'
Friday, 23rd September:
9.00 – 11.00 Panel 9 „Media and Propaganda“
Chair: Dirk Rupnow (Innsbruck)
Elisabeth Haid (Vienna): Conquest or liberation? Galicia as object of wartime propaganda in the Austrian and Russian press
Commentator: Harald Binder (Vienna)
Maciej Górny (Warsaw): A war between allies. Polish and Ukrainian scientists and the national propaganda 1914–1923
Commentator: Anna Veronika Wendland (Jena)
Bernhard Bachinger (Graz): Eigen- und Feindbildkonstruktion der österreichischen Presse am Beispiel der Saloniki-Front
Commentator: Harald Potempa (Potsdam)
Tilman Lüdke (Freiburg): Strange fronts, strange wars: the battle for "Islam" between Germany and the allies in the Middle East during WW1
Commentator: Catriona Pennell (Exeter)
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 10 „Economic Mobilization“
Chair: to be announced
Stephan Lehnstaedt (Warsaw): Two kinds of occupation? German and Austrian economic policies in Poland 1915-1918
Commentator: Helmut Kuzmics (Graz)
Ana Paula Pires (Lisbon)/Maria Fernando Rollo (Lisbon): Other fronts, different arms: economic mobilization for war. The Portuguese case
Commentator: Samuel Kruizinga (Amsterdam)
Ekatarina Romanova (Moskow): Perception of war burden sharing in the Russian society during FWW 1914-Feb.1917
Commentator: Reinhard Nachtigal (Freiburg)
14.00 – 15.30 Roundtable
Chair: Gerhard Hirschfeld
Gunda Barth-Scalmani/Pierre Purseigle/Alun Edwards/Ellen Geisriegler/Irina Renz
16.00 End of Conference