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Research Theme on European Histories and Cultures
Centre for the Advanced Study of French History
LANGUAGES AT WAR; BARBARISM IN WAR A double workshop, 9 March 2007, 9.30am
- 3.30pm Department of History, room 125, Humanities and Social Sciences
Building, University of Reading Programme: Languages at War 9.30
Registration 9.45 Introduction 10.00 Policymaking: for the Home Front, for
military/civilian relations, for relations with Allies • Irene de Jorio
(Université libre de Bruxelles): Linguistic autarchy and war propaganda
abroad : research directions in fascist Italy • Hilary Footitt (University
of Reading): Languages and military-civilian relations, from 1944 - Iraq •
Linda Risso (University of Reading): Information or Intelligence? The
Information Research Department and the creation of the NATO Information
Service, 1949-63 11.15 Coffee 11.30 Displaced communities: prisoners of
War, exiles, refugees • Samantha Heywood(Imperial War Museum) and James
Taylor (Imperial War Museum): Prisoners of War and Concentration Camps •
Nick Atkin (University of Reading): Exiles • Scott Soo (University of
Southampton): From 'gato' to 'gâteau': language and the Spanish Republican
exiles in France 12.45 Lunch 1.30 Teaching Languages at War • Rob Williams
(MODLEB, University of Westminster) Programme: Barbarism in War 2.00
Barbarism in War • Frank Tallett (University of Reading): The British Isles
in the 17th century civil wars • Pieter Lagrou (Université libre de
Bruxelles): Law and War in the twentieth century • George Kassimeris
(University of Wolverhampton): Torture and atrocities in modern warfare
3.30 Tea
No charge for the Workshops, but please let us know if you are intending to
come. Contacts: Hilary Footitt ([log in to unmask]) Frank Tallett
([log in to unmask])
How to get to Reading:
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/studyabroad/incoming/practical/gettoreading.htm
University of Reading campus map:
http://www.info.rdg.ac.uk/maps/maps-display.asp
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