Waterloo: The Battle that Forged a Century
Conference Schedule
Venue: Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand
Campus, King’s College London
Tickets and further information:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/events/eventsrecords/waterloo200.aspx
Contact Daniel Whittingham (daniel.whittingham@kcl.ac.uk) or Jonathan Krause
(jonathan.krause@kcl.ac.uk) for more details.
Day 1, Wednesday 11 September
Registration (with tea & coffee): 08:30 – 09:30 (The Terrace)
Welcome and Introductory Remarks: 09:30 – 09:40
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Official welcome from King’s College, London
Introductory remarks by Antony Beevor
Keynote 1: 09:40 – 10:55 (Chair: Major General (Ret.) Mungo Melvin)
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Professor Jeremy Black (University of Exeter): The Battle of Waterloo
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Panel 1 (France): 11:00 – 12:30 (Chair: Professor William Philpott)
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Professor Christine Haynes (University of North Carolina, Charlotte): War After
Waterloo: The Allied Occupation of France, 1815 – 1818
Dr Jean-Marc Largeaud (Université Francois-Rabelais, Tours): Remembering Waterloo:
French Memories of the Battle
Professor Alan Forrest (University of York): Waterloo and its Place in the Napoleonic
Legend
Lunch: 12:30 – 13:30 (The Terrace)
Keynote 2: 13:30 – 14:45 (Chair: Dr John Bew)
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Adam Zamoyski: The War After Waterloo
Panel 2 (Waterloo and Military History): 14:50 – 16:20 (Chair: Professor Sir Hew Strachan)
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Dr Huw Davies (KCL): The British Army After 1815
Professor Beatrice Heuser (University of Reading): Clausewitz, Jomini and Rühle von
Lilienstern
Dr Daniel Whittingham (KCL): Waterloo and British Military History, 1815 – 1915
Tea and Coffee: 16:20 – 16:45 (The Terrace)
Keynote 3: 16:45 – 18:00 (Chair: Antony Beevor)
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Professor Sir Hew Strachan (University of Oxford): Framing the First World War: the
role of Napoleon and Waterloo
Reception: 18:00 (Chapters)
Day 2, Thursday 12 September
Tea and Coffee: 08:30 – 09:00 (The Terrace)
Panel 3 (Britain): 09:00 – 10:30 (Chair: Professor Jeremy Black)
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Professor William Anthony Hay (Mississippi State University): The Paradoxes of
Victory: Waterloo's Political Consequences in Britain and Abroad
Professor Bruce Collins (Sheffield Hallam University): Britain and the Continental
Commitment, 1815 – 1848
Dr Patrick Geoghegan (Trinity College Dublin): Waterloo: an Irish Defeat, 1815 – 1847
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Tea and Coffee: 10:30 – 11:00 (The Terrace)
Panel 4 (Prussia, Russia and Central Europe): 11:00 – 12:30 (Chair: Professor Andrew
Lambert)
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Dr Michael V. Leggiere (University of North Texas): The Cult of Personality: Blücher,
Waterloo, and the Prusso-German Army
Professor Alan Sked (LSE): Austria's role in the Napoleonic Wars and European
Diplomacy under the Metternich System
Dr Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University (Shreveport)): ‘With God, Faith
and Bayonets!’ Russia and the Napoleonic Wars
Lunch: 12:30 – 13:30 (The Terrace)
Panel 5 (Art, Culture and Education): 13:30 – 14:30 (Chair: Major General (Ret.) Mungo
Melvin)
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Dr Neil Hitchin: The Cultural Legacy of Waterloo?
Dr Anthony Seldon (Wellington College): The Lack of a Waterloo Legacy in British
Schools
Panel 6 (Society and Revolution): 14:35 – 15:35 (Chair: Professor Brian Holden Reid)
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Professor Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge): ‘Heat and Centre of the Strife’.
The Struggle for La Haye Sainte
Dr Michael Rapport (University of Glasgow): Imperial Armageddon: Global
Interpretations of the ‘French Wars’ and their Legacy
Tea and Coffee: 15:35 – 16:00 (The Terrace)
Keynote 4: 16:00 – 17:15 (Chair: Dr Alan James)
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Professor Andrew Lambert (KCL): Sea Power, Strategy and the Scheldt
Closing Remarks: 17:15 – 17:30
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Professor Sir Michael Howard
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