You are warmly invited to:

“Home and Away”

Group for War and Culture Studies Seminar
Wednesday 30^th March 2011, 6pm – 8pm, Room 412

University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW

Nearest tube: Oxford Circus

Dr Kay Chadwick: “Impact and Environment: Philippe Henriot’s Radio Propaganda in 1944”

Philippe Henriot was one of the most powerful personalities in WWII France. Appointed as Vichy’s Secretary of State for Information and Propaganda in January 1944, his subsequent broadcasting endeavours substantially changed the nature of the “battle of the airwaves” with the Free French abroad. This paper explores the ways in which Henriot's propaganda fed off the environment of endgame Vichy, and considers its impact on public opinion in the final, fraught months of the Occupation.

Kay Chadwick is Senior Lecturer in French in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Liverpool. She is currently working on a project funded by the AHRC and the British Academy to produce the first critical edition of Philippe Henriot's radio broadcasts in 1944.

Dr Marian Malet: “Refugees’ Influence on Visual Culture in 1930s Britain”

Marian Malet works at the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, School of Advanced Study.

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