Aftermath: The Cultural Legacies of WW1 21-23 May 2015 Strand Campus, King’s College London Conference Programme

Welcome This conference is part of the on-going collaboration between King's College London and the University of North Carolina. In particular, our gathering is the final event in a year-long series of events marking the centenary of World War I. We kicked off this series last August with a joint King’s-UNC conference in Chapel Hill that looked at the military conduct of the war. Now we turn to the aftermath of the war, its multiple and continuing effects in our world. Our thanks to all our participants and to the units at both King's and UNC that have provided financial support.

Professor John McGowan (University of North Carolina) & Professor Max Saunders (King’s College London) Conference Conveners

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Thursday 21 May 10.00-11.00 Registration with tea & coffee

Entrance Hall

11.00-12.30 Session 1 Panel A: Chair: Mihailo Popovic K2.31 (Nash) Klāvs Zariņš (University of Latvia/Latvian War Museum) - Through Authoritarianism and Soviet occupation: the Great War, historical research and the myth of the Latvian Riflemen in Latvia Liisi Esse (University of Tartu/Stanford University) - Hidden Legacies of the Great War: The Memory of Estonian War Veterans of WW1 and the War of Independence Mart Kuldkepp (University of Tartu) - Post-War Geopolitics and the Legacy of the GreatPower Conflict in the Imagination of the Estonian Politicians Panel B: Chair: Bill Balthrop K3.11 Tom Hulme (King’s College London) - ‘And those who live, how shall I tell their fame?’: Historical Pageants and the First World War in Britain 1918-1960 Jane Wildgoose (The Wildgoose Memorial Library, Kingston University) - Mute Eloquence: a Journey from Darkness into Light and from Silence into Sound, in reports of the repatriation and reburial of the Unknown Warrior, and Horace Nicholls’s official photograph of ‘The Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey, November 1920’ Patrizia Muscogiuri (University of Salford) - ‘Beauty for ashes’: Propaganda, War Artists and the Frontlines/Shorelines of Modernism Panel C: Chair: Max Saunders K0.18 Alex Belsey (King’s College London) - Perspectives on War in the Journal of Keith Vaughan Michael Paraskos (City & Guilds of London Art School) - Herbert Read and the Legacy of the First World War Anne-Julia Schoen (King’s College London) - 'A necessary part in the institution of war': from Conscientious Objection to the Peace Ballot 12.30-13.20 Lunch

Great Hall

13.20 – 13.30 Welcome from John McGowan (University of North Carolina) & Max Saunders (King’s College London) K2.31 (Nash) 13.30-14.30 Keynote: K2.31 (Nash) Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford) - 'All Of Us': D. H. Lawrence's First World War Poems for the People

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14.30-16.00 Session 2 Panel A: Chair: TBC K2.31 (Nash) Andrew Frayn (University of Nottingham) - Counting the Cost: The First World War, Calculability and Rationalism Andrea Rummel (University of Giessen) - War, Nation, Civilization: Ford Madox Ford and Clive Bell Suzanne Steele (University of Exeter) - Architecture and the Post-war Response to the Great War Narrative of Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End Panel B: Chair: Peter Busch K0.18 Hillary Briffa (King’s College London) - Propaganda in Malta in the First World War: Demon Kaiser or Colonizer? Robert Howes (King’s College London) - The Cultural Legacy of the First World War in Brazil Alison Fell (University of Leeds) - Cultural Representations of French-African Troops since WW1 Panel C: Chair: TBC K0.19 Andrew Campbell (University of Strathclyde) - Truly Strong Men. W.H. Auden and Masculinity after WW1 J. Jacob Hoffman (University of Bergen) - A Farewell to Masculinity? Feminization and Masculine Crisis in Inter-War Novels on WWI Adam Engel (University of North Carolina) - Crow's Communion: The Spiritual Function of Wartime Violence in the Poetry of Ted Hughes 16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

Great Hall

16.30-17.30 Keynote: K2.31 (Nash) Bill Balthrop (University of North Carolina) - Distant Memories: America, World War I and U.S. Cemeteries in Europe 17.30-18.30 Session 3 Panel A: Chair: David Edgerton K2.31 (Nash) Dennis Showalter (Colorado College) - The Culture of Warmaking Roy MacLeod (University of Sydney) - Science for the Nation, Science for the People: Legacies and Lessons of the Great War

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Panel B: Chair: Bart Zielinski K0.18 Christina Spittel (University of New South Wales) - Paper Gallipolis: Imagining the Peninsula in Australian Novels, 1916-2014 Burcin Cakir (Glasgow Caledonian University) - Economic and Nationalistic Paradigm: Turkish Government’s Gallipoli Discourse after 1980s Panel C: Chair: Roderick Beaton K0.19 Mihailo Popovic (Austrian Academy of Sciences) - Cultural Heritage and Cultural Legacies in the Historical Region of Macedonia during and after WW1 Tomoe Hamazaki (Shinshu University) - Nationalization and Westernization in two Music Cultures: Turkey and Japan 18.30 Drinks reception & private view of Maggi Hambling: War Requiem & Aftermath Entrance Hall

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Friday 22 May 9.00-9.30 Registration

Entrance Hall

9.30-11.00 Session 4 Panel A: Chair: Hope Wolf K2.31 (Nash) Lily Ford (Birkbeck College, University of London) - The Emergence of ‘air-mindedness’: Flight and Aerial Photography 1918-1928 Peter Busch (King’s College London) - Old Voices, New Media: a Critical Engagement with the Original BBC Interviews recorded for the 1964 The Great War Documentary Erica Carter (King’s College London) - The Kino-Eye in Combat: German Film Newsreels of World War I Panel B: Chair: Max Saunders K0.18 Binne de Haan & Hans Renders (University of Groningen) - Tracing the Cultural legacy of World War 1 in the Arts and Journalism in Biographies Kumiko Hoshi (Shinshu University) - A. J. A. Symons’ The Quest for Corvo: The Origin of Metabiography Panel C: Chair: John McGowan K3.11 Ann-Marie Einhaus (Northumbria University) - Cultural Memory, Teaching and Contemporary Writing about the First World War on the eve of its Centenary Martin Bayer (Journalist & Curator) - Virtual World War: How the Great War is Visualised in Computer Games Lawrence Napper (King’s College London) - ‘The Failure of the Film Thrill’: Authenticity and the Great War in British films of the 1920s 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

Great Hall

11.30-12.30 Keynote: K2.31 (Nash) Anne Marie Rafferty & Kate O’Brien (King’s College London) - Mud, Missiles and Microbes: Nursing in WW1 12.30-13.30 Lunch

Great Hall

13.30-14.30 Keynote: K2.31 (Nash) David Edgerton (King’s College London) - An Empire of Machines: Britain in the Interwar Years

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14.30-16.00 Session 5 Panel A: Chair: Mart Kuldkepp K3.11 Anna Menyhért (Eötvös Loránd University) - The Image of ‘Maimed Hungary’ in 20th Century Cultural Memory and the 21st Century Consequences of an Unresolved Collective Trauma: the Impact of the Treaty of Trianon Luminiţa Ignat-Coman (Babeş-Bolyai University) - The Changing Social Role of Transylvanian Women in Romania in the Aftermath of World War I Oliver Schultz (Independent Researcher) - World War 1 as Breeding Ground for Political Conflict and Violence in the Balkans: Bulgaria between Communist and Fascist Agitation (1918-1944) Panel B: Chair: Max Saunders K2.31 (Nash) Krisztina Sárdi (Péter Pázmány Catholic University) - Paris’s Cultural Role after the Great War from a Geocritical Point of View Nur Karatas (King’s College London) - Ford Madox Ford’s ‘Modern Elegy’: ‘Ongoing Mourning’ in Parade’s End George Yeats (Regents University London) - Ford's Undoing: The Art of Effacement in Some Do Not… Panel C: Chair: Neil Vickers K0.18 Robert Bieber (King’s College London) - Reflections on the Impact on Society and how the Great War was Regarded; Coloured by the Experience of Shell Shock Caroline Zilboorg (University of Cambridge) - Gregory Zilboorg’s The Passing of the Old Order: A Russian Jewish Psychoanalyst’s Struggle for Perspective Akshi Singh (Queen Mary, University of London) - ‘A primitive disaster’: Memories of WW1 in Psychoanalysis 16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

Great Hall

16.30-17.30 Session 6 Panel A: Chair: Simon Wessely K2.31 (Nash) Michael Guida (University of Sussex) - Nature Cure: Cultures of Listening and the Restoration of Psychological Health in Early Interwar Britain Ashley Somogyi (University of Durham) - Silence and Sound: Negotiating the Indescribable in The Great War Panel B: Chair: TBC K0.18 Matthew Adams (University of Victoria, Canada) - Anarchy in the Aftermath: Herbert Read, George Woodcock, and British Anarchism in the 1930s Peter Lowe (Queens University, Canada) - Crossing the Rubicon: Roman History and the Rise of Italian Fascism 6

17.30-18.30 Keynote: K2.31 (Nash) Simon Wessely (King’s College London) - 100 Years of Shellshock: Gone but Doing Better than Ever 19.00-20.30 Buffet Dinner (optional, must be booked separately) Great Hall

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Saturday 23 May 9.00-9.30 Registration

Entrance Hall

9.30-11.00 Session 7 Panel A: Chair: Jane Wildgoose K2.31 (Nash) Eileen Chanin (King’s College London) - Australian Sculptor Dora Ohlfsen (1869-1948) made Commemorative Work during and following the Great War - What have we yet to Learn about the Artistic Legacies of War? Steven Wright (Independent Researcher) - Why British Architects Couldn’t ‘Go Modern’: A Cultural Legacy of the Great War Carolyn Malone (Ball State University) - The Art of Reconstruction: The Arts and Crafts Movement and Post-World War I British Society Panel B: Chair: John McGowan K0.18 Michael Regan (Lancaster University) - ‘From Scratch’: Palestine and the legacy of World War I Troy Paddock (Southern Connecticut State University) - Rethinking the Legacy of German Militarism and the Great War John Williams (University of Texas) - The Spoils of the Great War: A Tale of Middle Eastern Oil, the Anglo-German Naval Arms Race, and the San Remo Mandate Panel C: Chair: TBC K3.11 Catherine Smale (King’s College London) - Transforming Loss: The Aesthetics of Grief in German Women’s Poetry during and after the First World War (1914-1933) Margaret Vining and Bart Hacker (Smithsonian Institution) - What Uniforms Meant to American Women in the Great War: Citizenship and Agency Sam Haddow (Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London) - ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, you don't belong here’: Blood + Chocolate and British Remembrance Rituals 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

Great Hall

11.30-12.30 Keynote: K2.31 (Nash) Santanu Das (King’s College London) - Beyond Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Intellectual Legacies of the First World War 12.30-13.30 Lunch

Great Hall

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13.30 – 14.30 Keynote: K2.31 (Nash) Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford) - Beirut on the Stage: the Social History of the Great War in Four Acts 14.30 – 16.00 Session 8 Panel A: Chair: John McGowan K2.31 (Nash) Hilary Lithgow (University of North Carolina) - Never Such Innocence Again? Critiquing the Idealization of Irony and the Myth of Disillusionment in Great War Literature Shawn Tucker (Elon University, North Carolina) - The Wasteland as War Literature: Verdenal, Aldington, Survivor Guilt, and Freudian Defence Mechanism Humour Panel B: Chair: Santanu Das K3.11 Kazi Rahaman (University of Calcutta) - Impact of the First World War in a Bengal District: Burdwan Richard Smith (Goldsmiths, University of London) - West Indian Military Service and Multicultural Memories of the First World War David Beus (Brigham Young University, Hawaii) - Gourkas and Tirailleurs in Popular French Stories of the Great War 16.00-17.00 Closing remarks

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