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Call for Papers - The Great War and the Moving Image

Published: 21 November 2012Origin: History
University of Southampton

An international conference organised by the University of Kent in conjunction with the University of Southampton and in association with the Imperial War Museum will take place at the University of Kent, Canterbury on 15-16 April 2014.

The aim of the conference is to explore the Great War through all forms of moving images including cinema, television and computer games. We are particularly interested in the way genres have translated across media and how images were received creating popular understandings of the war and feeding into wider commemorative processes. The conference is particularly interested to explore the moving image in terms of circulation, distribution and representation.

While the conference is mainly historical in focus, we would like to encourage interdisciplinarity, especially the cross-fertilization of history with the wider military and media communities. This will be the first major international conference of its kind to explore these issues and will, we hope, identify further research synergies forming the basis for future collaboration.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Home Front
  • Combat filming
  • The Colonial context
  • The European context
  • Landscape and battlefield
  • The ‘other’ (women, orphans etc)
  • The wounded, disfigured and disabled
  • Battlefield tourism
  • Cinematic culture
  • The relationship between cinema and other forms of popular culture
  • Multi-national productions


Proposals (no more than 300 words in length) should be submitted, together with a short CV, by 30 April 2013 to either:

Professor David Welch
School of History
Rutherford College
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent
CT2 7NX
United Kingdom
d.a.welch@kent.ac.uk

Professor Mark Connelly
School of History
Rutherford College
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent
CT2 7NX
United Kingdom
m.l.connelly@kent.ac.uk

Professor Adrian Smith
History
Building 65
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
United Kingdom
a.a.smith@soton.ac.uk

Dr Michael Hammond
Department of English
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
United Kingdom
m.k.hammond@soton.ac.uk

 

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