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War, Society and Culture

Guernica by Picasso

Venue: Hybrid: Online-via zoom & Pollard N301, IHR
Time: Wednesday 17:30
Convenors: Timothy Bowman (Kent), Ambrogio Caiani (Kent), Mark Connelly (Kent), Stefan Goebel (Kent), Richard Grayson (Oxford Brookes), Heather Jones (UCL), Erica Wald (Goldsmiths)

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Term 1- Autumn 2023

Picking Your Battles: The Presentation of War and Conflict in UK Museums

Peter Johnston (Imperial War Museum)

Online- via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

A “heartbreaking reality”: Coping with Home-Loss in Urban Britain during the Second World War

Jacinta Mallon (University of Kent)

Online- via Zoom

The Centenary of the First World War, 2014–18: Digital and Physical Spaces

Helena Power (University of Kent), Louise Rodwell (University of Essex)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2024

Propaganda and Neutrality in the Twentieth Century

Edward Corse (Kent), Marta García Cabrera (Gran Canaria)

Online- via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Jewish POWs, Nazi captors: What was it like to be a Jewish POW in a Nazi POW camp?

Yorai Linenberg (Birkbeck)

Online- via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Soft Power in a Rough Neighbourhood: The Political Appropriation of Military Bands and their Music in Ireland in the Early Twentieth Century

David Hammond (independent scholar)

Online- via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

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