• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Thursdays at 4pm
• Web Address: http://greatwar.history.ox.ac.uk/

Thursday 8 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Master Class with Professor John Horne: “The Great War: Rethinking the Centenary”
  TBA

Thursday 22 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - “An Army Without A Face: The Ottoman Army and the First World War”
  Mesut Uyar (University of New South Wales, Canberra)

Thursday 12 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - “Geographies of warfare and territories of belligerence in the era of the First World War”
  Pierre Purseigle (University of Warwick )

Monday 7 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Postgraduate Workshop on “Connecting Approaches on the First World War in the Wake of the Centenary”
  TBA

Thursday 21 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Médecins hors-la-loi: the practice of "illegal" medicine in Algeria during the First World War
  Hannah-Louise Clark (Trinity College, Oxford University)

Thursday 28 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Green Cadres’ and the Collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918
  Jakub Benes (University College, Oxford University)

Thursday 4 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Driving the Mandate: Automobility, World War One and Global Fordism in French Syria-Lebanon, 1916-1934
  Simon Jackson (University of Birmingham)

Thursday 11 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Internment and the Fall of the German Empire 1914-1920
  Mahon Murphy (Trinity College Dublin)

Thursday 18 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Performing Propaganda: Music and National Identity in Paris and London, 1914-1918
  Rachel Moore (New College, Oxford University)

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - China’s New Culture Movement in 1919 – A Roundabout Ramification of World War I
  Elisabeth Forster (Oxford China Centre, Oxford University)

Thursday 3 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Violence as Spectacle: Exhibiting the Great War in the British Empire
  Jennifer Wellington (University College Dublin)

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Complicity, Criminality and Resistance Beyond the Trenches: French Conduct and Perceptions in the Occupied Nord in the First World War
  James Connolly (University of Manchester)

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Inventing the Front: Cognition and Reality in the Great War
  Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Learning to Move on the Parade Ground in the British army, 1914-1918
  Jean-Philippe Miller-Tremblay (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales)

Thursday 27 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Tabriz under two rival empires: Ottomans and Russians during the Great War
  Fatemeh Masjedi (Zentrum Moderner Orient)

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Victorious in name only: The Portuguese Republic and its empire at war, 1916-1918
  Dr Felipe Rebeiro de Meneses (Maynooth University)

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - ISFWW Conference
  Various Speakers

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Scholarly identities in war and peace: the Paris Peace Conference and the mobilization of intellect
  Tomás Irish (Swansea University)

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Rescuing Maritime Strategy from the Continental Commitment: Julian Corbett's analysis of Gallipoli and Jutland in the Official History of Naval Operations
  Professor Andrew Lambert (King’s College London)

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Kde domov muj and Wacht am Rhein: Singing Loyalty and Disloyalty in Habsburg Bohemia during the First World War
  Dr Tamara Scheer (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Historical Social Science/Institute for East European History, University of Vienna)

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Enmity or empathy? Jacques Rivière’s L’Allemand
  Arabella Hobbs (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Fortress: A Case Study of Total War in the East, 1914-15
  Professor Alexander Watson (Goldsmith’s University)

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Ego-Documents and Official History: Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria's Diary and the Battle for Memory, 1914-39
  Dr Jonathan Boff (University of Birmingham)

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Worcestershire's Women: local studies and the gender politics of the Great War and its legacy
  Dr Maggie Andrews (University of Worcester)

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - From Bandage Wallahs to Knights of the Red Cross: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War
  Dr Jessica Meyer (Leeds)

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Music and Morale in the British Army, 1914-1918’
  Dr Emma Hanna (University of Kent)

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Diagnosis Psychopath? The Medicalization of Conscientious Objectors in Germany during the First World War’
  Dr Rebecca Bennette (Middlebury College)

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Underperforming or overachieving? The French army in 1917’
  Professor William Phillpott (King’s College, London)

Thursday 1 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Session on Women in Ireland during the First World War
  Dr Fionnuala Walsh (Trinity College Dublin), Professor Senia Paseta (Tutorial Fellow in History, Oxford)

Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Enemy Rule: seeing the First World War through the lens of military occupations’
  Sophie De Schaepdrijver (Pennsylvania State University)

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - ‘The Wartime Hunt for Traitors and the Future of Austria-Hungary’
  Professor Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton/All Soul’s)

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - How many beginnings? Entering the Great War, 1914-1917
  Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Know your enemy: British perspectives of German First World War propaganda
  Dr. David Monger (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Saturday 21 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Workshop – Constance Coltman: Pioneer of Women in Christian Ministry
  Various Speakers

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - We cannot keep silent’: the international humanitarian network behind the British Parliamentary Report on the Armenian Genocide
  Dr David Monger (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Merciless Humanitarians: Atrocity propaganda, liberalism & the FWW in Britain & Australia
  Dr. Emily Robertson (Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW)

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The First World War and the Avengers of 1870: Memorialising a global conflict in eastern France
  Dr. Emma Login (Historic England)

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Empires and Occupations: The Global Dynamics of the Illiberal Wartime State during the First World War
  Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Relating to the Dead: Mass Grave Excavations, DNA and the Construction of Memory at Fromelles
  Dr. Layla Renshaw (Kingston University)

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Conflicting Memories: From Remembrance Poppy to Worker Bee
  Dr. Matthew Leonard (University of Bristol & Cirencester College)

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - War as Revolution, 1914-1923
  Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - When the war is over: Burying the war dead in 1919
  Dr. Romain Fathi (Flinders University / Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po)

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Health of Nation: Influenza and Nationhood in Australia at the end of the First World War
  Hannah Mawdsley (Queen Mary University London / Imperial War Museum)

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Role of Forensic Anthropology in Identifying the Missing
  Dr. Nicholas Márquez-Grant (Cranfield Forensic Institute)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Symposium – Egypt in the First World War, 1911-1924
  Various Speakers

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Travelling to War: Journey, Distance and Encounter in the Experiences of Troops from New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies
  CANCELLED
  Dr. Anna Maguire (King's College London)

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Symposium – Constructing Messages of War
  Various Speakers

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Patriotism and Social Order: Armed Associations in Habsburg Austria, 1900-1918
  Dr. Claire Morelon (University of Padova)

Thursday 19 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Travelling to War: Journey, Distance and Encounter in the Experiences of Troops from New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies
  Dr. Anna Maguire (King's College London)

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 'I didn’t really feel like Dan taught us anything': Undergraduate researchers and the history of London at war
  Dr. Dan Todman (Queen Mary University of London)

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Nervous Flyer: Nerves, Flying and the First World War
  Dr. Lynsey Shaw Cobden (Air Historical Branch RAF)

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Joanne Stober (Canadian War Museum)

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Symposium: Constructing Messages of War
  David Nash, Vincent Trott, Sarah Wearne, Susannah Wright

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - A Space of Conflict? Commemorating the First World War at London's Imperial War Museum
  Dr. James Wallis (University of Essex)

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Globalising and Localising the Great War: The view from the battlefields
  Dr. Paola Filippucci (University of Cambridge, Anthropology & Archaeology)

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Civilians in ordeal: From local situations to globalised war
  Prof Annette Becker (Paris-Nanterre)

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Making Celluloid War Memorials: The battle reconstruction films of British Instructional Films, 1919- 1929
  Prof Mark Connelly (University of Kent)

Wednesday 19 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - GLGW Conference 2019: 'A World Transformed: The First World War and its Legacy’
  Various Speakers