Asia, the Great War, and the Contiuum of Violence

Asia, the Great War, and the Contiuum of Violence

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Prof. Dr. Robert Gerwarth, Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin
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Dublin
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Ireland
From - Until
17.05.2012 -
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Robert Gerwarth

This workshop explores the short- and long-term impact of the First World War on different Asian societies.

Programm

09.00 – 10.45: Panel 1
Chair: Gajendra Singh (UCD)

Guoqi Xu (Hong Kong), The Great War and China’s Great Transformation

Tomoyuki Ishizu (National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo), Japan and the First World War

Richard Fogarty (Albany), Vietnam and the Great War

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-13:00: Panel 2
Chair: James Kitchen (UCD)

Gajendra Singh (UCD), Mirrors of Violence: Disciplining the Body in the Indian Army

Santanu Das (Queen Mary), Sensing the WWI Indian Sepoy: Image, Music, Text

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.45: Panel 3
Chair: Stephan Malinowski (UCD)

Radhika Singha (Jawaharlal Nehru University) – India in the European Great War: Mobilisation, Demobilisation and Imaginaries of Transformation

Leonard Smith (Oberlin), Asia and the Paris Peace Treaties

15.45 – 16.15 Break

16.15 – 18.00

Chair: Robert Gerwarth (UCD)

Crispin Bates (Edinburgh), South Asia and the Legacies of World War I

Rana Mitter (Oxford), Why wartime matters: rediscovering China's World Wars

Contact (announcement)

Suzanne d'Arcy
Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin
suzanne.darcy@ucd.ie


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