University of Mississippi,
The Center for Civil War Research and the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History
in conjunction with WAR-Net
2015 Conference on “Gender, War, and Memory in the Anglo-American World.”
The Center for Civil War Research and the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History
at the University of Mississippi seek papers for a conference to be held October 1-3,
2015 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. This conference will be hosted
in conjunction with WAR-Net, and it will be the first conference WAR-Net has
sponsored outside of the UK.
The conference uses the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the U. S. Civil War, the
100th anniversary of the First World War, and 75th anniversary of the Blitz as an
opportunity to bring together scholars of gender, memory, and war on both sides of
the Atlantic. The conference will broadly consider these themes in the United
States, the British Isles, and the former British Empire during each of these conflicts
as well as in their aftermath. We encourage submissions from a wide range of
disciplines that address the cultural, economic, military, political, social and literary
dimensions of these subjects. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: the
memory of emancipation and the end of slavery; memorialization of the military and
civilian experiences of war; the role of gender in constructing postwar nationalism
and patriotism; wartime literary and cinematic constructions of gender;
photography/visual representation and memory; the cultural legacies of internal
dissent and anti-war activism; gender and questions of wartime and postwar health
(including mental well-being), medicine, injury and mortality; gender, religion and
morality in the aftermath of war; the impact during and after the war of refugees
and displaced persons; the trope of war as a catalyst for sexual expression or
repression; representing wartime in postwar culture and media; gendered
commemorations of civil and military leadership as well as of ordinary participants
at local, regional, and national levels.
Confirmed keynote speakers include: Professor Susan-Mary Grant of Newcastle
University (UK), author of The War for a Nation: the American Civil War; Professor
Michael Roper of the University of Essex (UK), author of The Secret Battle: Emotional
Survival in the Great War; Professor Kimberly Jensen of Western Oregon University,
author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War; Professor
Leisa Meyer of the College of William and Mary, author of Creating G.I. Jane:
Sexuality and Power in the Women’s Army Corps During World War II; Professor Gill
Plain of St Andrews University (UK), author of Women’s Fiction of the Second World
War: Gender, Power and Resistance and Professor Anne Sarah Rubin (University of
Maryland, Baltimore County), author of Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March
and American Memory.
We encourage submissions from scholars at all career stages, including graduate
students. To submit a proposal, send a brief CV and a 600-word abstract to
civilwar@olemiss.edu no later than June 15, 2015.
Questions should also be directed to civilwar@olemiss.edu. For more information
about the conference and the Center for Civil War Research, visit
http://www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu/conference2015.html
For more information about WAR-Net, visit:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/warnet/