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Keynote Speakers:
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 Lord Wilson of Dinton, Master of
Emmanuel
College,
Cambridge, and Former Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service
We are delighted to welcome Lord Wilson to address the conference. Lord Wilson entered the Civil Service as an assistant principal in the Board of Trade in 1966. He subsequently served in a number of departments including 12 years in the Department of Energy where his responsibilities included nuclear power policy, the privatisation of Britoil, personnel and finance. He headed the Economic Secretariat in the Cabinet Office under Mrs Thatcher from 1987-90 and after two years in the Treasury was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Department of the Environment in 1992. He became Permanent Under Secretary of the Home Office in 1994 and Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service in January 1998.
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Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History,
Yale
University
Professor Winter is a world-renowned specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. He is the author or co-author of a dozen books, including Socialism and the Challenge of War, Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912-18, The Great War and the British People, The Fear of Population Decline, The Experience of World War I, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, 1914-1918: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, Remembering War: The Great War between History and Memory in the 20th Century, and Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century. He has edited or co-edited 13 books and contributed more than 40 book chapters to edited volumes. He is co-director of the project on Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, which has produced two volumes, the first on social and economic history, published by Cambridge University in 1997, and the second published by Cambridge in 2007. Work in preparation includes 'The Degeneration of War,' 'The Social Construction of Silence,' and 'Anxious futures: population politics in the 21st century. Professor Winter was co-producer, co-writer and chief historian for the PBS series "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century," which won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award and a Producers Guild of America Award for best television documentary in 1997.
Professor Winter will be speaking on ‘The just war and human rights’. |
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Richard Overy, Professor in History, University of
Exeter
Professor Overy is well-known for his exceptional work on the Second World War. In 2001, he was awarded the Samuel Elliot Morison Prize of the Society for Military History for his contribution to the history of warfare. He is currently preparing a research project on bombing and its impact during the Second World War which will look comparatively at the experience of bombed communities in
Britain,
France,
Italy,
Germanyand the
Soviet Union. He is also continuing research on aspects of the German economy under Hitler. His publications include: The Air War 1939-1945 (1980, 2nd ed 2005); The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938 (1982, 2nd ed 1996); Goering: the ‘Iron Man’ (1984); The Origins of the Second World War (1987, 2nd ed 1996); The Road to War (1989); War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994); The Inter-War Crisis 1919-39 (1994); Why the Allies Won (1995); The Times Atlas of the Twentieth Century (1996, 2nd ed 2004); Russia’s War (1997); The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Third Reich (1997); Bomber Command 1939-1945 (1997); The Battle of Britain (2000); Interrogations: the Nazi Elite in Allied Hands (2001); Dictators: Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia (2004).
Professor Overy will be speaking on ‘Saving Civilisation? British Opinion and the Coming of the Second World War’. |
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Professor Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War,
Universityof
Oxford
Professor Strachan is one of the most eminent scholars of warfare, with his specialisms stretching from the 18th century to the present day. His publications include: European armies and the conduct of war (London, 1983); Wellington's legacy: The reform of the British Army 1830-54 (Manchester, 1984); From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, technology and the British Army (Cambridge, 1985); The politics of the British Army (Oxford, 1997); The First World War: Volume 1: To arms (Oxford, 2001); (ed.) The First World War an Illustrated History (Oxford, 2003); and The First World War: a new illustrated history (London, 2003).
He will be speaking on ‘The outbreak of the First World War and the Ideas of 1914’.
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The conference is also delighted to welcome such a wide field of distinguished scholars in the field of propaganda and war. Key participants include: |
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James Chapman
James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the
University of
Leicester. His many publications include The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945 (London: I.B. Tauris, 1998), Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (London: I.B. Tauris, 1999; also published in a separate North American edition by Columbia University Press, New York, and in Japanese translation by Tokuma Shoten of Tokyo), Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s (London: I.B. Tauris, 2002), Cinemas of the World: Film and Society from 1895 to the Present (London: Reaktion, 2003), Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005), and Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of Doctor Who – A Cultural History (
London: I.B. Tauris, 2006). |
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David Culbert
David Culbert is John H. Loos Professor of History at
Louisiana
State
University,
Baton Rouge. Expert in the field of mass media, propaganda and film in the United States and Europe, he is the author of News for Everyman: Radio and Foreign Affairs in Thirties America (Greenwood, 1976), Mission to Moscow (U. Wisconsin Press, 1980), the Editor-in-Chief of Film and Propaganda in America: A Documentary History (6,500 pp.; 5 vols., Greenwood, 1990-1993) and the co-editor of both World War II, Film and History (Oxford UP, 1996) and Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present (ABC-Clio, 2003). He is currently the editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 1992 to present. |
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Nick Cull
Nick Cull is Professor and Senior Faculty Fellow at The University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy. His research interests are broad and inter-disciplinary, focussing on the developing academic discipline of public diplomacy, the role of culture, information, news and propaganda in foreign policy. He is author of The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989 (Cambridge University Press 2008). His first book, Selling War, (Oxford University Press, 1995), was named by Choice Magazine as one of the ten best academic books of that year. Nick Cull is the president of the council of the International Association for Media and History. With David Culbert and David Welch, he is the co-editor of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500-present (2003) which was one of Book List magazine’s reference books of the year. We are delighted that all three editors of this important volume will be speaking at the conference, together with the scholar to whom the Encyclopedia was dedicated, Phil Taylor. |
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Garth Jowett
He earned his B.A. at
York
University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the
University of
Pennsylvania. His publications include: Film: The Democratic Art (Little, Brown, 1976), Movies As Mass Communication (Sage, 1985), Propaganda and Persuasion, 3rd ed. (Sage, 1999), Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays (With Victoria O’Donnell, Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006), and Hollywood goes Shopping (With David Desser, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). |
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Philip Knightley Phillip Knightley was a special correspondent for The Sunday Times for 20 years (1965-85) and one of the leaders of its Insight investigative team. He was twice named Journalist of the Year (1980 and 1988) in the British Press Awards. He and John Pilger are the only journalists ever to have won it twice. He was also Granada Reporter of the Year (1980), Colour Magazine Writer of the Year (1982), holder of the Chef and Brewer Crime Writer's award (1983), and the Overseas Press Club of America award for the best book on foreign affairs in 1975 (The First Casualty). He has lectured on journalism, law, and war at the National Press Club, Canberra, ACT; the Senate, Canberra, ACT; City University, London; Manchester University, Queen Elizabeth College Oxford, Penn State, UCLA, Stanford University, California; the Inner Temple, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He is a patron of the C.W. Bean Foundation, Canberra ACT. |
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Gary Rawnsley Gary Rawnsley is Professor of Asian International Communications at the
University of
Leeds. His book Taiwan's Informal Diplomacy and Propaganda was published by Palgrave in 2000, followed by Critical Security, Democratisation and Television in
Taiwan in 2001 (Ashgate Press). Professor Rawnsley has also published widely on the media, election communication and campaigning in
Taiwan, and has observed every major election there since 1996. His most recent books are Political Communications in Greater China (edited with Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and published by RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and Political Communications and Democracy (Palgrave, 2005). He is now finishing a co-authored book (with Sally Sargesson,
University of
Nottingham) on Chinese Politics Today for Manchester University Press. He is also the author of Radio Diplomacy and Propaganda: The BBC and VoA in International Politics, 1956-1964 (Palgrave, 1996). |
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Fransjohan Pretorius
Fransjohan Pretorius is professor of history at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is an authority on the South African War and has written several books on the topic. The Afrikaans version of his doctoral thesis was published in Cape Town in 1991, and received three major awards. The English edition, entitled Life on Commando during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, published in 1999, was runner-up for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. Pretorius has received several awards for his contribution to the knowledge on the Boer War, including the Stals Prize from the South African Academy for Arts and Sciences. He is a former editor of Historia, journal of the South African Historical Association, and is chairperson of the History Commission of the South African Academy for Arts and Sciences, and chairperson (2008) of the panel of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) for rating South African academics in historical studies. He has read papers at conferences in the UK, the USA, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. |
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Phil Taylor Phil Taylor is Professor of International Communications at the
University of
Leeds. His many publications include War and the Media: Propaganda and Persuasion in the Gulf War (2nd edition 1997); Munitions of the Mind: a history of propaganda from the ancient world to the present day (3rd edition 2003); Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media since 1945 (1997) and British Propaganda in the 20th Century: Selling Democracy (1999). His forthcoming book (co-authored with Paul Moorcraft) is Shooting the Messenger: the political impact of war reporting and will be published by
Potomac in 2008. He has as well as more than 80 articles and book chapters. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish. Professor Taylor has lectured regularly on military education courses, including at the Defence Intelligence and Security School (DISS) at Chicksands, the Royal College of Defence Studies and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), both in
London, as well as at
Sandhurst and at the Joint Services Command Staff College (JSCSC) at Shrivenham. Outside the
UK, he has addressed the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in
Mons,
Belgium. He has also lectured for the past 16 years at the
United States
Air
Force
Special
Operations
School (USAFSOC, now University) in
Hurlburt Field,
Florida. In 2002, he was consulted by the Prosecution Team of the Milosovic trial at the International War Crimes Tribunal in
the Hague on Serbian propaganda. Phil Taylor is a Fellow of the Center for Public Diplomacy at the
University of
Southern California and Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Information Warfare Studies at the Universiti Teknologi Mara, Shah Alam,
Malaysia. |
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David Welch David Welch, the co-organizer of the conference, is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War (http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/propaganda/) at the
University of
Kent. His publications include
Germany, Propaganda & Total War 1914-18 (Rutgers University Press, 2000), The Third Reich. Politics, and Propaganda (Routledge, revised second edition, 2002), Hitler. Profile of a Dictator (Routledge, 2001), Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945 (I.B.Tauris, 2001), and Propaganda and Mass Persuasion. A Historical Encyclopedia from 1500 to the Present [with D. Culbert and N. Cull] (ABC Clio, 2003). He is currently writing a major history of propaganda in the twentieth century and (together with his colleague Ulf Schmidt) a Holocaust Reader. He is General Editor of Routledge's Sources in History series. |
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Denise Youngblood Denise Youngblood is Professor of History at the
University of
Vermont. She has written extensively on Russian and Soviet cinema, including five books: Russian War Films: On the Cinema Front, 1914-2005 (University Press of Kansas, 2007); Repentance: A Companion Guide (I.B. Tauris, 2001, with Josephine Woll); The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-1918 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999); Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s (Cambridge University Press, 1992), which was awarded Heldt Prize for Best Book by a Woman in Slavic Studies, and Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918-1935 (University of Texas Press, 1991). She is presently researching Soviet Cold War cinema. |
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