Thursday 24 January
09:00 – 9:30 Registration Samuel Alexander Building [SA] A101
09:30 – 11:00 Session 1: Panel
Cultures of Violence and Care in Post-War Imperial Contexts SA A101
Chair: James Connolly (University College London)
Claire Eldridge (University of Leeds) – “Violence, Masculinity, and Colonial Virility: French Algeria in the Aftermath of the First World War”
Alexia Moncrieff (University of Leeds) – “Imperial Pensioners, Domestic Violence and the British Ministry of Pensions: State Involvement in Family Life”
Hilary Buxton (University of Leeds) – “On the Borders of Care: Navigating Imperial Responsibility in South Asia and the British West Indies”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and Tea Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 2: Parallel Panels
Violence and Humanitarianism SA A101
Chair: Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Chris Millington (Manchester Metropolitan University) – “The gangrenous leg: Some comments on the discourse of disability and sickness in French interwar politics”
Roberto Mazza (University of Limerick) “Sectarianizing Jerusalem: humanitarianism and paramilitarism in the post-war era”
Thomas Schmutz (University of Zurich) “East of the Bosporus: Violence, Humanitarianism and a fragile new Order”
Post-War Medicine between Violence and Care SA A112
Chair: Ana Carden-Coyne (University of Manchester)
Justin Fantauzzo (Memorial University of Newfoundland) “Mad with Malaria: British Ex-Servicemen, Violence and Care after the First World War”
Marjorie Gehrhardt (University of Reading) “Caring for mutilated veterans: the Blind Ex-Servicemen’s Union in post-war France”
Evan P. Sullivan (University at Albany) “Better Speech for Better Americans”
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Session 3: Roundtable
Disability in comparative and SA A101
transnational perspectives
Chair: Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds)
Adam Luptak (Oriel College, University of Oxford) “Czechoslovak disabled veterans and the War victims’ orphanage in Nac Eradec”
Michael Burri (Temple University) “Clemens von Pirquet and Postwar Austrian Public Health Celebrity”
Michael Robinson (University of Liverpool) “Definitely Wrong? The Ministry of Pensions’ treatment of mentally-ill Great War veterans in interwar British and Irish society”
Helena de Silva (University of Lisbon) “Caring for psychological disabled Portugese war veterans (1918-1948)”
Silvia Correia (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) “Incomplete heroes? The disabled soldiers of the WW1 in Portugal”
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee and Tea Break
16:30 – 18:00 Session 4: Keynote Speaker SA A101
Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin) “Violence and Humanitarianism in the Age of Total War”
Friday 25 January
09:00 – 9:30 Registration
09:30 – 11:00 Session 5: Panel
Violence, Care and the Creation of Knowledge SA A101
Chair: Alex Dowdall
Tomás Irish (Swansea University) “The ‘moral basis’ of reconstruction: Intellectual Relief in the aftermath of the war”
Taline Garibian (University of Oxford) “The Quest for Evidence. Forensic Investigations of War Crimes (1914-1920)”
Jessamy Carlson (The National Archives, Kew) “Lest we forget? Reflections on the centenaries of the First World War and its aftermath
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and Tea Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 6: Parallel Panels
Geographies of Humanitarianism SA A101
Chair: Laure Humbert (University of Manchester)
Elizabeth Piller (University College Dublin) “Violence and Care Abroad – Diaspora Communities and Post-war Europe: A German-American Case study”
Ben Holmes (University of Exeter) “A war of starvation after the war: British Humanitarian debates about German suffering, c.1918-1919"
Christophe Declercq (University College London) “Disappearing from view: brushing over half a million of returning Belgian refugees under the carpet”
Representing Violence and Care SA A112
Chair: Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester)
Francesca Piana (University of Geneva) “Humanitarianism in Practice. Europe and its Displaced Populations after WWI”
Dominiek Dendooven (In Flanders' Fields Museum, Ypres) “Curating Centennial Complexities: displaying the aftermath of the First World War”
Ana Carden-Coyne (University of Manchester) Title TBC
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Session 7: Roundtable
Post-War Occupations SA A101
Chair: John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)
Tammy Proctor (Utah State University) “Civilian War Relief and the Problem of Peace, 1917-1920”
Sean Brady (Trinity College Dublin) “Urban Reflections: Occupiers, the Occupied and Urban Space in the Aftermath of the First World War”
James Connolly (University College London) “Conflict Continues: Tensions and Violence in the French-occupied Rhineland, 1918-30”
Emilia Salvanou (Hellenic Open University) “Violence and the Allied Occupation of the Ottoman Empire – between remembrance and oblivion”
Mahon Murphy (Kyoto University) “Creating ‘The City of an Idea’: British Town Planners and the Military Occupation of Jerusalem, 1917-1921”
Matthew Haultain-Gall (Université Catholique de Louvain) “A Friendly Occupation: The Allies in Belgium after the Armistice, 1918–19”
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee and Tea Break
16:30 – 18:00 Session 8: Keynote Speaker SA A101
Alison Fell (University of Leeds) “Women, War & Care: The Legacies of the First World War on Nursing & Nurses in Britain, France and Belgium”