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Talks

“Trial of the Nation. A comparative approach to French social mobilization in the First World War”

“Impossible Neutrality, Improbable Belligerence, 1914-1918”

“On the Road to ‘Total War’. Exile and Resettlement in Western Europe, 1914-1918.”

“On the Road to ‘Total War’. Exile and Resettlement in Western Europe, 1914-1918.”

“Who owns the battlefield: cultural history or military history?”

“The social and cultural history of the war”

“1914-18: Communautés locales en guerre. De l’histoire comparée à l’histoire européenne”

“From solidarity to oblivion: The reception of Belgian refugees in Europe, 1914-1918”

“A litmus test of wartime social mobilization: The reception of Belgian refugees in Europe, 1914-1918”

« Les mobilisations sociales à l’épreuve de l’exil belge. Etude comparée France – Grande-Bretagne."

« Imperial societies and local communities at war: the WWI experience of England and France »

« En-deça et au-delà des Nations: enjeux et limites d’une histoire comparée des communautés locales en guerre », paper presented at « La Grande Guerre aujourd’hui : actualité de la recherche. European conference in First World War Studies »

“1914-18: Local communities at war. A comparative study of the English and French experiences.”

“Mirroring societies at war: pictorial humour in the British and French popular press during the Great War.”

« Hommes du Sud et gens du Nord, entre solidarité nationale et confrontation. L’accueil des réfugiés de la Première Guerre mondiale dans la France méridionale. »

“A civil victory. State and community in Britain and France, 1914-1918”

« 1914-1918: Communautés locales et mobilisations nationales en France et en Angleterre. Approche comparative de l’histoire sociale des représentations. »

• « Briser l’Union Sacrée ». Conflits sociaux et mobilisation nationale en France, 1914-1918 »

• “France, America, and the history of the First World War”

Uneasy balance: reflections of a First World War historian on scholarship and memory

The history of the First World War has, in the last two decades, been profoundly renewed. The internationalization of the academic debate has spurred a comparative turn in a field where conventional academic boundaries – between the military, cultural and social histories of the war – have successfully been challenged by scholars committed to interdisciplinary approaches. In the meantime, growing popular interest in the experience of the Great War has, across former belligerent nations, accompanied this academic renewal. While collective memory has become a topic of choice for many historians, First World War specialists can attest that their object of study has lost none of its contemporary relevance. The Centenary of the outbreak of the conflict in 2014 now looms large in the mind of historians increasingly preoccupied, in a challenging financial and institutional context, with the wider impact of their scholarship. This seminar will explore some aspects of the perennially problematic relationship between history and memory. This talk will address the continuing significance of the conflict in contemporary Britain and in Europe; it will highlight the tensions between the historian’s intellectual agenda and the social demand formulated by the State, pressure groups, and the lay audience; it will finally invite a collective discussion on the place of historical scholarship in the public sphere.

 

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