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10:00-12:00 Registration and coffee in the foyer of the Grimond building (Location J6 on the three dimensional campus map pdf).
12:00-13.00 Welcome from David Welch (Kent)
Followed by:
Plenary Session:
Hew Strachan (Oxford) The outbreak of the First World War and the Ideas of 1914.
13:00-14.00 Lunch
14:00-17:00 Parallel session: World War I
Chair: Annette Becker (University of Paris X, Nanterre)
Catriona Pennell (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Why we are at War?’: The outbreak of the Great War and the Population
of the
United Kingdom, August – December 1914.
Matthew Perry (Newcastle), Contesting the Historical Service of the French Navy’s Justifications of the Great War.
Roger Smither (Imperial War Museum), Victory and Peace:
Britain ’s Lost Propaganda Epic of 1918.
Parallel session: European Film and Propaganda during World War II
Chair: Susan Tegel (Hertfordshire)
Jo Fox (Durham) and Roel Vande Winkel (Ghent), ‘The Lion Has Wings’: International Propaganda and
the Outbreak of the Second World War.
Paul Lesch (Luxembourg), The Grand Duchess of
Luxembourg in the
USA during World War II: a twofold propaganda campaign.
David Culbert (Louisiana State), Kolberg (
Germany, 1945): Goebbels' Wunderwaffe as Counterfactual History.
Parallel session:
Hollywood Dreams of War: US Film and World War II
Chair: Nick Cull (Southern California)
M. Todd Bennett (Office of the Historian,
US Department of State), ‘Reel Relations’:
Hollywood and World War II’s United Nations
in the Popular Imagination.
Patrick Major (Warwick), Men in Monocles:
Hollywood ’s B-Movie Wars against the Third Reich.
Wendy Toon (Worcester), ‘Know Your Enemy: The Pathological Enmification of
Germany and
Japan , 1942-45.
16:15 Tea
17:45 -18:15 Reception sponsored by the Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Kent.
18:15-20:00 Dinner (Darwin College)
Followed by:
20:15 Justifying War in the Modern Age: A film presentation by the
Imperial
War
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