CultCommWar Workshop Four: American Wars, American Memory
Friday 30 November, 10.30-17.30
Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
A one-day interdisciplinary workshop considering the distinctively American practices and politics of war
Funded by the British Association of American Studies and the US Embassy
Free and open to all, including lunch, coffee and a wine reception. Please register and join us!
Schedule:
10.30: Participants arrive (coffee)
10.45-12.45: Postgraduate and ECR Morning Seminar on Live Commemoration:
Kristin O’Donnell (Brighton) – on Pages of the Sea
Jan Tattenberg (Oxford) – Germans at the Cenotaph! Nationalism on the Armistice Centenary
Dr. Layla Renshaw (Kingston) – on the commemorations of migrant deaths
12.45-1.45pm: Lunch
1.45-2pm: Brief Introduction to the Series – Dr. Alice Kelly
2-3.30pm: Roundtable on American War Memory (Chair: Dr Ashley Garber)
Professor Robert Cook (Sussex) – Union Veterans and the Fading Struggle to Remember the War of the Rebellion
Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin) – Remembering America’s Great War a Hundred Years On: the Pershing Park Project
Dr Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan) – World War II and American Memory Diplomacy
3.30-4pm: Coffee
4-5.30pm: Keynote: Sarah Wagner – Bringing Them Home: The Identification and Commemoration of Vietnam War MIAs
(Chair: Dr Layla Renshaw)
5.30-6.30pm: Wine Reception
CultCommWar (@CultCommWar) is an interdisciplinary seminar series which considers the practices and politics of war memory across time. You can read more about the series on the British Academy website and the Oxford Arts blog, and in this Times Higher Education article about how the series has sought to champion emerging and early career scholars.