INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 'Body Counts: The Administration of Military Losses and Casualties in East & South-east Asian Wars, 1930s-1970s'
Convened by Benoît Pouget (Aix-Marseille University and at Sciences Po Aix), Mark Harrison, & Jeong-Ran Kim (OCHSMT)

This international workshop is supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council research grant (‘Medicine and Conflict, c.1945-c.1980: The United Kingdom and the Savage Wars of Peace’, AH/T013656/1), the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (203132/Z/16/Z), the Netherlands Institute for Military History, the Service Historique de la Défense and the Maison Française d’Oxford.

This conference examines war losses and casualties during East and South-east Asian conflicts from the 1930s to the 1970s, focusing on military (and POW) casualties. These conflicts were marked by the juxtaposition of hybrid military strategies and tactical configurations; a variety of local, regional, and international actors (including non-state groups); and a high degree of violence within fluid categories of imperial/anti-imperial, civil, and global warfare. The workshop seeks to draw connections between these conflicts and regions by examining the administration of war losses and casualties, including the transfer of skills, knowledge, material, and personnel associated with these practices.

mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/international-workshop-body-counts-administration-military-losses-and-casualties-east-south
Date: 15 November 2023, 13:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: Maison Française d'Oxford
Organiser contact email address: communications@mfo.ac.uk
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Anne-Sophie Gabillas