Dear all,

Please find attached and below the programme for 'Approaching War: Europe', the third and final conference to be held at Newcastle University from 16-17 March 2013 as part of the International Leverhulme Trust Project,  'Approaching War: Childhood, Culture and the First World War'. The registration deadline for non-speakers is Friday 8 March 2013, and the registration page can be found here:

http://webstore.ncl.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&catid=51&modid=2&prodid=187&deptid=9&prodvarid=0

The registration fee includes lunch and refreshments on both days, as well as a buffet dinner and drinks reception in the Hatton Gallery on the evening of Saturday 16 March.  These details, along with further information on travel and accommodation in Newcastle, can be found on our conference website:

http://www.approachingwareurope.com

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Please circulate widely. Apologies for cross-posting.

Best wishes,

Emma

Dr Emma Short
School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Newcastle University

Network Facilitator
Approaching War: Childhood, Culture and the First World War: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/fww-child/Approaching War: Europe, 16-17 March 2013, Newcastle University, UK: http://www.approachingwareurope.com

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]Approaching War: Europe
Percy Building, Newcastle University, UK
Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 March 2013

Saturday, March 16

9.00-10.00 Registration


10.00-10.30 Opening Remarks
Chair: Peter Hunt
Rosemary Johnston (University Technology Sydney) and Lissa Paul (Brock)


10.30-12.00 Session One
Panel 1A – Heroism and Romance
Chair: Emma Short
- Veronica Barnsley (Manchester) – “‘No More Romance’: Kipling’s Imperial Boys and the Approach of War"
- Andrew Frayn (Manchester) - “Enchantment and Disenchantment in Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands”
- Stacy Gillis (Newcastle) – “Desire, the War and Romance in L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside”

Panel 1B – The American Popular Press
Chair: Justin Nordstrom
- Jessica Fontaine (Hollins) – “The Influence of Children’s Periodical Literature in the First World War”
- Andrea McKenzie (York) – “A ‘Revolutionary’ First World War: Girls Writing Girls in America’s St. Nicholas Magazine”
- Katharine Capshaw Smith (Connecticut) – “War, the Black Diaspora and Anti-Colonialist Journalism: The Case of Our Boys and Girls”

Panel 1C – Germany
Chair: Hazel Sheeky-Bird
- Hans-Heino Ewers (Goethe) – “From the School Desk to the Front”
- Emer O’Sullivan (Leuphana) – “Fun and Military Games: The War in German Picture Books”
- Helen Roche (Cambridge) – “Kadettengeschichten: Exploring the Prussian Cadet-School Story”


12.00-1.00 Lunch


1.00-2.30 Session Two
Panel 2A – The Child in/at War
Chair: Marie Stern-Peltz
- Margret Holt (Klagenfurt) – “Preaching Militarism: War Propaganda in Viennese Children’s Books, 1880-1918”
- Manon Pignot (Amiens) – “Génération Grande Guerre? French Children’s Private Experiences of the First World War”
- Bérénice Zunino (Sorbonne) – “War in German Illustrated Children’s Books, 1910-1914”

Panel 2B – Material Experiences of War
Chair: Lucy Andrew
- Rachel Duffett (Essex) – “Playing Soldiers? British Children and their Toys in the Aftermath of the First World War”
- Mary Clare Martin (Greenwich) – “War and Empire: Children’s Materials and Experiences, 1898-1919”
- Siân Pooley (Cambridge) – “‘Leagues of Gentleness and Column Comrades’: Children’s Responses to Conflict in late-Victorian and Edwardian England”

Panel 2C – Nationhood
Chair: Jan Keane
- Sandrijn Van Den Noortgate (Artesis) – “Translating the Absent History: A Belgian War Novel and American Adolescents”
- Isabelle Tabary (Nottingham) – “Paul d’Ivoi’s La Capitaine Nilia: Avenging the Wounded Nation, the Duties of the Patriot”
- Laura Tosi (Venice Ca’Foscari) – “‘These plays might almost serve as a handbook to patriotism’: Prose Adaptations of Henry V for Children, 1893-1911”


2.30-3.00 Refreshments


3.00-4.00 Keynote Address
Chair: Stacy Gillis
Trudi Tate (Cambridge) – “King Baby”


4.00-5.30 Session Three

Panel 3A – The British Popular Press
Chair: Katherine Capshaw-Smith
- Alison Enever (Southampton) – “‘What can I do for the war effort?’: Gender and Wartime Roles in theGirls’ Own Paper and the Boys’ Own Paper”
- Jonathan Rayner (Sheffield) – “The Portrayal of Children in War Illustrated”
- Victor Watson (Independent) – “Children’s Annuals, 1880-1919”

Panel 3B – Masculinity
Chair: Andrea McKenzie
- Dennis Butts (Independent) – “Spies, Submarines and the Battle of Dorking: The Boys’ Adventure Story, 1880-1914”
- Simon Machin (Roehampton) – “‘If-’: Cultural Possession, Heritage and the Child in Kipling’s School Verse and Pre-War Puck Stories”
- Rachel Johnson (Worcester) – “Percy Westerman and the Henty Hero”

Panel 3C – Games and Toys
Chair: Mary Clare Martin
- Ana Carden-Coyne (Manchester) – “Children as Soldiers and Soldiers as Children: The Great Game of War”
- Gareth Crabtree (Independent) – “British Military Play Cultures, 1899-1918”
- Rosie Kennedy (Goldsmiths) – “War Imagined: Children’s Wartime Toys and Games”

Panel 3D – Australia
Chair: Faye Keegan
- Alison Halliday (Macquarie) – “‘Gone with the guns’: Poetry, War and the Child in Australia”
- Jan Keane (Independent) – “Education and the First World War in Australia: Children in the State Schools of Victoria”
- Christeen Schoepf (UNE Armidale) – “The Port Pirie Playground: The First Playground in South Australia, Child Health and Welfare in the First World War”


6.00-9.00 Reception and Dinner (for all delegates)



Sunday, March 17

9.00-10.30 Session Four
Panel 4A – Class
Chair: Siân Pooley
- Lucy Andrew (Cardiff) – “Scouting for Foes: British Manliness and Detecting the ‘Other’ in Pre-war Scout Literature”
- Jane Rosen (Imperial War Museum) – “‘Your parents were English people and they are never anarchists’: Class and Revolution in Juvenile Literature, 1890-1930”
- Anja Tschörtner (Oxford Brookes) – “‘Those prim Englishmen with their hypocritical countenance...’: The ‘Other’ in German Popular Fiction for Girls in the First World War”

Panel 4B – The Colonial Subject
Chair: Andrew Frayn
- Ríona Nic Congáil (St Patrick’s College) “Making Mittens, Training Troops: Loyalist and Nationalist Children’s Culture in Ireland during the First World War”
- Gargi Gangopadhay (Rama Krishna Sarada Mission College, Kolkata) – “Rule Brittania? Reading War and Childhood in a Colonial Climate”
- Marnie Hay (University College Dublin & Trinity College Dublin) – “Scouting for Rebels: Na Fianna Éireann and Preparation for the Coming War, 1909-1918”

Panel 4C – Propaganda
Chair: Emer O’Sullivan
- Hazel Sheeky-Bird (National Maritime Museum) – “British Children and ‘Big Navy’ Ideology: Propaganda and British Sea Power, 1890-1914”
- Justin Nordstrom (Penn State) – “‘A Salesman Soldier for Uncle Sam’: Images of Childhood in U.S. Food Conservation, 1914-1919”
- Angela Smith (Sunderland) – “Victory Babies: The State and the Child in the First World War”


10.30-11.00 Refreshments


11.00-12.30 Session Five
Panel 5A – The Refugee
Chair: Marnie Hay
- Christophe Declercq (Imperial College) – “Out of the Ordinary: Belgian Refugee Children in Britain during the First World War”
- Nazan Maksudyan (Alexander von Humboldt) – “‘Wagons full of lads’: Ottoman Children in Germany during the First World War”

Panel 5B – Italy
Chair: Katherine Cooper
- Jessica D’Eath (NUI Galway) – “La Quarta Guerra d’Indipendenza: An Italian Interpretation of the Great War”
- Lindsay Myers (NUI Galway) – “‘Flying the Flag’: Artuto Rossato’s First World War Fantasy NovelL’Aeroplano di Girandolino”
- Francesca Orestano (Milano) – “Children and the First World War: A View from Italy”

Panel 5C – Writing War
Chair: Angela Smith
- Angela Anna Iuliucci (Milano) – “In Flanders Fields: The Western Front for (and through) the Eyes of a Child”
- Marie Stern-Peltz (Newcastle) – “‘On the brink of understanding some great truth’: Reading the War inRemembrance and The Shell House”
- Ashley Wilson (Cambridge) – “Anne and Rilla: Optimism Before and After the First World War”


12.30-1.30 Lunch


1.30-2.30 Presentation
V&A Museum of Childhood


2.30-3.30 Keynote Address
Chair: Matthew Grenby
Michael Paris (Central Lancashire) – “The Best War Ever: Juvenile Fiction and the Great War”


3.30-4.00 Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Rosemary Johnston (University Technology Sydney) and Lissa Paul (Brock)


4.00 Close of Conference