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Friday, April 21

8:45am: Welcome, Opening Remarks, Tech Check

 

9:00am - 10:30am: War Crimes and the Meaning of Justice

Rethinking Race: ‘Crime,’ and Colonial Agency during the First World War

Claire Eldridge

 

Antiwar Activism by Vietnam War Veterans, 1965-1973

Christopher J. Levesque

 

The Romani Holocaust: Under-representation & Oblivion in Public Memory

Sanket Dhabal

 

11:00am - 12:30pm: Abandoned and Isolated Spaces: Alternative Environments of War

Deferred Maintenance: War’s Aftermath and the Architectural Salvage at Funter Bay in Southeast Alaska

Desiree Valadares

 

Mind Your Step: Mines, Penguins, and the Environmental Impact of the Falklands War

William R. McLachlan

 

War and Wilderness: Intersections with Patriotism and Masculinity in Canadian Second World War Alternative Service Work

Rosemary Giles

 

Defending Upper Canada "With A View To Prevent Sickness": Military Defense, Malaria, and Settler Colonialism Along the Rideau Canal (1826-1832)

Gabrielle McLaren

 

12:30pm - 1:30pm: Keynote Address

“What the army talks about when they’re not talking about trauma: Stories from the Victorian Medico-Military Archives”
Dr. Amy Milne-Smith, Associate Professor, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University

 

2:00pm - 3:30pm: Imaginative Legacies of the Cold War  (Chaired by Alex Aleco)

“I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire”: Cold War in the Post-Apocalyptic World of the Fallout Series

Tijana Rupcic

 

Cold War Nostalgia, (Geo)Political Progress, and James Bond in GoldenEye (1995)

Tatiana Konrad

 

Are We Really Experiencing a ‘New Cold War’ in World Politics? Conceptualizing the ‘Cold War’ and Challenging Current ‘Cold War’ Narratives

Andreas Wendlberger

 

3:30pm - 5:00pm: Raising Voices, Respecting Silence: Intersectional Methodologies in War Studies

Manly-Hearted Women: Women Warriors of the Blackfoot Confederacy

Dean Coslovi

 

The Action of Silence: US Female Service Members in the 1970s and 1980s Dismantle Gender Barriers

Lt Col Jessica Brown USAF

 

Rethinking Military Culture: Narrowing the Gap Between the Values Espoused and Everyday Experiences

Marshall Gerbrandt

 

 

 

Saturday, April 22

8:45am: Tech-Check, Checking-In, Following-Up

 

9:00am - 10:30am: What Are We Really Talking About?

“Rags, Petrol, Matches”: Interrogating the Nomadological War-Machine in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas

Dr. Paromita Patranobish

 

The People and the Territories of War (harb) in the Theological, Legal, and Political Narratives of Ibn Taymīyah (XIII-XIV)

Julio César Cárdenas Arenas

 

Defining a Theory of Defeat

Dr. Joshua Meeks

 

11:00am - 12:30pm: Ways of Knowing and Remembering War

Forging a Nation from Defeat–Australia and the Gallipoli Campaign

Martin Gabriel

 

Challenging the Conventional Narratives of War: Examining the Ideological Underpinnings of Violence in the Mughal Empire

Saikat Mondal

 

Uncanny Soundscapes: War and the Acoustics of Survival in Post-WWI Germany

Yaron Jean

 

12:30pm - 1:30pm: Zoom Room will remain open for conversation.

 

2:00pm - 3:30pm: The Stories We Tell Ourselves; The Stories We Tell Each Other

Preparing the Ideal Enemy: World War II Propaganda, the Goldilocks Principle, and A Tale of a City

James J. Kimble

 

Teaching Historical Methods Through War

Stefanie Wichhart

 

Convergent Biological Realities: Complicating Categorical Binaries in the First World War during the First Wave of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Srijita Pal

 

3:30pm - 5:00pm: Identity and Narrative in the Context of the First World War

Harvest for War: Gas Warfare, Coconuts, and Food Waste on the American Home-front During World War One

Gerard J. Fitzgerald

 

The Return of the Soldier: Rethinking British First World War Ex-Servicemen Through a Feminist Lens

Jessica Meyer

 

Gender, Citizenship, and Irish Medical Women After the Great War

Mandy Link