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9:00-11:00 Parallel session: Advertising War
Chair: Corey Ross (Birmingham)
Jim Aulich (Manchester Metropolitan), Advertising in
Britain during the First World War.
David Clampin (Liverpool John Moores), ‘Keep Smiling! It’s a Duty to-day’. Advertising the People’s War, 1939-1945.
Mary Anne Schofield (Villanova), Wartime ‘Lite’ Narratives: The U.S. Bond Drive Campaign, 1941-1946.
Parallel session: Justifying War in the Press
Chair: Mark Connelly (Kent)
Frank McDonough (Liverpool John Moores), How British Politicians and the British Press Justified War with
Germany in 1914.
Sian Nicholas (Aberystwyth), ‘There will be no war’: The ‘Daily Express’ and the approach of war, 1939.
Rob Johnson (Bath), Justifying the Iraq War and Managing the Media: A Comparative Historical Analysis.
Parallel session: Drawing Fire: Justifying War through Cartoons
Chair: Nick Hiley (Kent)
Chris Williams (Swansea) and Angela Gaffney (Swansea), Drawing Fire: the South African War (1899-1902) and
the Great War in the Cartoons of J.M. Staniforth of the ‘News of the World’ and ‘Western Mail’.
Marina Petrakis (Athens), Ridiculing the Axis Powers: British Cartoons during the Greco-Italian War, 1940.
David Welch (Kent), Justifying War: British Cartoons, 1900-2003 [An introductory talk on the
cartoon exhibition that will accompany the conference]
11:30- 12:30 Plenary Session:
Richard Overy (Exeter), Saving Civilisation? British Opinion and the Coming of the Second World War.
Chaired by Mark Connelly (Kent)
13:30-15:30 Parallel session: The Arts and ‘Just War’.
Chair: Jo Fox (Durham)
Sandrine Smets (Royal Military Museum, Brussels), How Painting Justifies the War: Belgian Artists facing the Great War.
Natasja Peeters (Royal Military Museum, Brussels), Whose War is it anyway? The changing face of propaganda posters
in
Belgium between 1940 and 1945.
Antoine Capet (Rouen), The Good War: British Official War Artists’ depiction of the Home Front, 1940-1945?
Parallel session: Literature and ‘Just War’.
Chair: James Chapman (Leicester)
Ross Collins (North Dakota State), Justifying War: American children’s publications and the First World War.
David Budgen (Kent), ‘Life without honour, even for nations, is not worth living’: British Juvenile Fiction and
the Justification of the First World War.
Parallel session: A Just Memorial? Commemoration and War.
Chair: Annette Becker (University of Paris X, Nanterre)
Carolyn Malone (Ball State), Memorials for the Fallen: The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Commemoration of
the British War Dead, 1916-1919.
Peter Donaldson (Kent), In the Name of the Fallen: Legitimising the Great War in
East Kent .
Stefan Goebel (Kent), The ‘Last Crusade’: representations of the Great War in British propaganda and commemorations, c. 1914-1930.
15:30-16:00 Tea
16:00-17:00 Postgraduate Showcase
Parallel session: The Boer War
Chair: Fransjohan Pretorius (Pretoria)
Paul Meller (Durham), What is it that we are going to war about? Justifying the Boer War.
Claire-Amandine Soulié (Essex), Justifying War to the late 19th Century: Joseph Chamberlain and Alfred Milner’s
approaches to the press and public opinion during the Boer War.
Parallel session : The United States in the Second World War
Chair: Susan Brewer (University of Winsconsin, Stevens Point)
Ariane Knuesel (Zurich), 'A terror which has been truly Asiatic': The Yellow Peril in World War Two.
Neil Verma (Chicago), On the Keeping of a Promise: The Bill of Rights and Just War in Norman Corwin’s
Radio Propaganda.
Parallel session :
Europe in the Second World War
Chair: Stefan Goebel (Kent)
Anna Jones (Durham), Creating 'a happy and efficient ship'; "In Which We Serve" (1942) and the projection of a People's War
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Guillaume Marceau (Concordia), Unwilling to Pay for Propaganda:
France ’s ‘Commissariat general à l’Information’ during
the Phoney War, 1939-40.
18:30-19:30 Reception sponsored by the Vice Chancellor,
University of
Durham , to be held in the gardens of Canterbury Cathedral.
19:30 Conference Dinner, International Study Centre, Canterbury Cathedral, to be followed by:
Lord Wilson of Dinton, former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service. |
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