War and Representation Network Conference Anniversary Culture II:
1815 and 1915: From Waterloo to Gallipoli Saturday 21 November 2015, University of Leicester
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Simon Bainbridge, University of Lancaster Professor Jane Chapman, University of Lincoln
Proposals are invited for the second in a series of conferences to mark the centenary years of the First World War and their intersections with other anniversaries. Focusing on the memorialization of 1815 and 1915 in poetry, the novel, non-fiction and the visual arts, this conference will offer the chance to reconsider the representation of the key events of those years in both the years between and the years since.
Topics might include:
How was the memory of Waterloo expressed in discourse about war in 1915, and what are the differences between ‘official’ discourse and popular representations?
How was Waterloo remembered in materials including school books, reportage, song, drama and cinema?
How are shifts in Anglo-French and Anglo-German relations accommodated in fictional, journalistic and historical accounts of these years?
How are the events of these years commemorated in different national and cultural contexts?
How were depictions of Waterloo by romantic authors including Byron, Wordsworth and Scott received, and what was their influence?
What echoes of war can be discerned in the landmark novels of 1915: Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, DH Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier?
What did the soldiers of 1915 learn from their forebears?
What is the legacy of the war poetry of 1915?
Please submit proposals of not more than 250 words for papers of 20 minutes (or for panels of 3 x 20 minute papers) with a 50 word speaker biography to [log in to unmask] by 6 July 2015.
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