Trinity College Dublin
Centre for War Studies Seminar Series, 2010-11
Methodologies in the Study of War in the Twentieth Century
Spring Sessions:
Friday, January 28th, Seminar 3: ‘Violence: Legitimacy and Illegitimacy’:
Daniel Steinbach (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Whites behind Wire - Questions of
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Nationalism, Internationalism and Racism in Colonial Africa during the Great War.’
Mahon Murphy (London School of Economics), ‘Imagined Communities: Life in
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German POW Camps in Japan during the First World War.’
o Arts Building, Room 3106, 16.00-18.00.
Thursday, February 3rd, Seminar 4: ‘Organisation: Control and Chaos’:
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Peter Grant (Cass Business School, City University, London), ‘Transforming
Managerial Change in the First World War: The Mobilization of Charity in Great Britain’
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Bjarne Bendtsen (University of South Denmark), ‘The image of the “profiteer” in the
formulation of “war experiences”: The case of neutral countries during the Great War.’
o Arts Building, Room A.6009, 16.00-18.00.
Thursday, February 17th, Seminar 5: ‘Belligerency and Neutrality’:
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Kevin O’ Sullivan (University College Dublin), ‘Small States, Foreign Aid and
the Cold War.’
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Samuel Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam), ‘European Neutrals and the Economic
War (1914-1918): Towards a comparative framework.’
o Arts Building, Room A.6009, 16.00-18.00.
Friday, March 11th, Seminar 6: ‘Everyday life: Continuity and Disjuncture’:
Marco Mondini (University of Padova), ‘Paper Heroes: Letters from the Italian Front
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during the First World War and the Construction of a Masculine Ideal Warrior.’
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Franziska Heimburger (EHESS, Paris), ‘ “Intercrossings intrinsic to the subject”:
Military Language Policy and Usage as a way of approaching the Allied coalition during
the First World War.’
o Long Room Hub Seminar Room, 14.00- 16.00.
Friday, March 25th, Seminar 7: ‘Victory and Defeat’:
Felix Römer (University of Mainz), ‘Military Ethos in the Face of Defeat. The German
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Wehrmacht, 1944/45.’
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Second Speaker TBC
o Arts Building, Room 5033, 14.00-16.00.
Friday, April 1st, Seminar 8: ‘Remembrance and Amnesia’:
Tobias Temming (University of Münster), ‘Remembrance and Amnesia or Identity and
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Trauma? Visual History of anti-fascist resistance in German and Dutch post-war cinema,
1945 - 1965.’
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Benjamin Möckel (University of Göttingen), ‘The Social Construction of Silence in
Post- World War Two Germany.’
o Long Room Hub Seminar Room, 14.00- 16.00.