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> From: Ingrid Sharp <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Conference Announcement and cfp: Resistance to War 1914-1924
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> Date: Wednesday, 28 January, 2015, 14:17
> Conference Announcement and Call for
> Papers: Resistance to War 1914-1924, Leeds, United Kingdom,
> 18-20th March 2016.
>
> Ingrid Sharp and colleagues are planning
> a major international conference for March 18th-20th 2016 to
> consider and debate the various forms and expressions of
> resistance to the First World War within and across national
> contexts. It will
> coincide with the introduction of conscription in Britain,
> but will explore national, international and transnational
> aspects of resistance to the First World War.
>
>
> Confirmed speakers so far include Cyril
> Pearce, Lois Bibbings and Julian Putkowski on Conscientious
> Objectors, Benjamin Ziemann on forms of German resistance to
> war and June Hannam on the Leeds-born peace activist
> Isabella Ford.
>
> There will be panels on:
> • the
> cultural representations of pacifism and the mobilization of
> art and literature to oppose the war;
> • memory
> and commemoration of anti-war activism, including during the
> centenary;
> •
> Classicists’ resistance to war;
> • links
> and continuities with present-day organisations such as the
> Fellowship of Reconciliation and Women’s International
> League for Peace and Freedom;
> • groups
> and individuals committed to the international
> reconciliation of former enemies;
> • the
> global dimensions of war resistance;
> •
> ideological, feminist, political and religious motivations
> for opposing the war;
> • the
> costs of war in terms of human suffering and trauma;
>
> •
> Conscientious Objection and its international legacies
>
> •
> pacifism in the inter-war period.
>
> Offers of individual papers, panels or
> round tables are welcome. Please send these (500 words and 1
> page cv) to [log in to unmask]
>
> We will be working with Leeds City
> Museums and Galleries to provide a forum for public debate
> and exchange of ideas and knowledge and welcome local
> history groups who are researching COs and other war
> resisters in their own areas.
>
> Deadline for abstracts: March 20th
> 2015
>
> The Conference is supported by Legacies
> of War, Leeds
> http://arts.leeds.ac.uk/legaciesofwar/ and the Gateways
> to the First World War, Kent
> http://www.kent.ac.uk/ww1/
>
>
>
> Dr Ingrid Sharp,
> Senior Lecturer in German,
> Graduate Studies Director,
> School of Languages, Cultures and
> Societies,
> University of Leeds
> LS2 9JT
>
> tel: 0113 343 3509
> Fax: 0113 343 3517
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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