Thursday 10 September 2015 - Trento, Aula Magna of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Santa Croce, 77
 
9.30-9.45        Welcome:
President of the ISFWWS: Pierre Purseigle (University of Warwick and Yale University)
Director of the Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento / President of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento
 
9.45-10.00      Introduction:
Organizing Committee
               Roberto Bianchi (University of Florence)
Selena Daly (University College Dublin/University of California, Santa Barbara)
Marco Mondini (Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento/University of Padua)
Martina Salvante (German Historical Institute, Rome)
Vanda Wilcox (John Cabot University, Rome)
  
10.00-11.30   Panel 1: Encounters
·       Samraghni Bonnerjee (University of Sheffield)
‘The Home and the World: War-Torn Landscape and Literary Imagination of a Bengali Military Doctor in Mesopotamia During World War I’
Discussant: Roberto Mazza
·       Robert Clemm (Grove City College)
‘“Whereupon thou standest is holy ground”: Perceptions of Africa in World War 1’
Discussant: Daniel Steinbach (King’s College London)
·       Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds)
‘The Long Carry: Landscapes and the Shaping of British Medical Masculinities in the First World War’
Discussant: Heather Perry (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
 
11.30-11.45    Break
 
11.45-13.00    Panel 2: Arts
·       Richard Galliano Valdiserra (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
‘Mowgli in the Dolomites’: Landscape and Ethnographic Representations of the Italian Front by Rudyard Kipling in 1917
Discussant: Camillo Zadra (Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Rovereto)
·       Stephanie Seul (University of Bremen)
‘“To witness how nature is perishing is impossible to bear”: Landscape portrayals of the Austro-Italian front in the wartime reports of the Austrian war correspondent and photographer Alice Schalek’
Discussant: Franziska Heimburger (L'ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
 
13.00-14.30    Lunch, hosted by the Fondazione Bruno Kessler
 
14.30-16.30    Panel 3: Military
·       Nicholas Murray (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)
‘The Changing Landscape of Trench Stalemate’
Discussant: Dennis Showalter (Colorado College)
·       Laura Rowe (University of Exeter)
‘‘Like a cinema through glasses’: Seascapes and the Experience of War for Royal Naval Personnel in the Great War’
Discussant: Mark Jones (Freie Universität Berlin and University College Dublin)
·       Mauricio N. Vergara (University of Padua)
‘Analysis of defensive lines in the Tyrol Front (the Eastern Alps)’
Discussant: Paolo Plini (CNR-Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Rome)
·       Christoph Nübel (Humboldt University, Berlin)
‘Warscapes. Managing space on the Western Front, 1914-1918’
Discussant:  Jeffrey Grey (USNW Canberra)
 
 
 
Friday 11 September 2015 – Visit to Asiago Plateau
 
Keynote Address: Nicholas Saunders, Title TBC (University of Bristol)
 
Transfer via coach/ minibus from Trento, departing am, arriving Padova pm – all costs to be covered by local sponsors
−      visit to Austro-Hungarian border fortress, keynote speech
−      lunch hosted by the Comune di Asiago
−      visit to the Asiago War Memorial/Ossuary
−      scenic drive across battlefield to Padova
−      conference dinner at Villa Giusti, location of the signing of the Armistice, 3 November 1918
 
 
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Saturday 12 September 2015: University of Padua
 
9.00-9.15        Welcome:
President of the University Committee for the Great War Centenary
 
9.15-10.45      Panel 4: Environment
·       Tait Keller (Rhodes College, Memphis)
‘War Lands the World Over: Industrial Agriculture and the Great War’
Discussant: Pierre Purseigle (University of Warwick and Yale University)
·       Jeffrey Reger (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
‘“Lamps never before dim are being extinguished from lack of olive oil”: Palestine in war and peace under Ottoman and British rule, 1910-1920’
Discussant: Brian Black (Penn State University Altoona)
·       Richard Tucker (University of Michigan)
‘Global Environmental Impacts of Mining and Forestry for the First Great Industrial War’
Discussant: Giorgio Sacchetti (University of Padua)
 
10.45-11.15    Break
 
11.15-13.00    Panel 5: Built Environment
·       Sandra Camarda (University of Luxembourg)
‘Land of the Red Soil: War Ruins and Industrial Landscape in Luxembourg, 1914-1918’
Discussant: Annette Becker (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
·       Ross Wilson (University of Chicester)
‘Parades and patriotism: streetscapes of New York during the First World War’
Discussant: Jennifer Keene (Chapman University, Orange, California)
·       Tim Fox-Godden (University of Kent)
‘Sites of Memory Beyond Mourning? Remembrance and place in the war cemeteries of the old Western Front’
Discussant: Edward Madigan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
 
13.00-14.00    Lunch
 
14.00-15.30    Panel 6: Science
·       Pascal Ndjock Nyobe (University of Douala, Cameroon)
‘Rain and bad weather in time of war: Strategic Challenges of Climatic and Environmental Factors during the Great War in Cameroon, 1914-1916’
Discussant: Nicola Labanca (University of Siena)
·       Meg Rosenberg (Keck Institute for Space Studies, Los Angeles)
‘From Ypres to the Moon: WWI Battlefields and the Impact Hypothesis for Lunar Crater Formation’
Discussant: Aldino Bondesan (University of Padua)
 
·       Oliver Stein (Freie Universität Berlin)
‘Scientists in Uniform: The German Military and the Investigation of the Ottoman Landscape, 1914-1918’
Discussant: John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)
 
15.30-15.45                Break
 
15.45-17.15                Concluding round table
Brian Black (Penn State University Altoona)                                
Patrizia Dogliani (University of Bologna)
Nicola Labanca (University of Siena)
Jenny MacLeod (University of Hull)
 
17.15-17.30                Conference Conclusion