The re-kindling of annual commemorations of the First World War in particular, and the upsurge in memorialisation in general, are demonstrative of renewed interest in 1914-18.
This renewal is mirrored in the vitality of academic activity in this area. This is illustrated both by the large increase in publications, and by shifts in methodology and areas of study. Indeed, Pierre Nora has suggested that the Great War has undergone the kind of reappraisal applied to the French Revolution a decade ago.
Nowhere have these shifts been better illustrated than in the Historial de la Grande Guerre at Péronne in France. It epitomises what could be dubbed the second upheaval of the Great War: the academic upheaval which has meant that isolated study of the military, cultural, social or economic facets of the war is no longer possible. Amidst such reappraisals, how are the newest scholars responding?

This conference aims to bring together an international group of young scholars - postgraduate and postdoctoral - who work on the Great War in order to assess the influence of these historiographical shifts upon our work, to foster international collaboration and comparative history, to share our preliminary or more polished findings, and to scrutinise our works in progress in a broader context.

This conference, to be held at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Lyon on the 7th and 8th September 2001, will address the following themes in four consecutive sessions:

1- Waging war: To what extent have cultural and military historians truly colonized each other's areas as the epigraph to the Cambridge University Press series "Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare" suggests? Can the social history of war be studied without a thorough engagement with events at the front or vice versa? Does the recent and provocative Niall Ferguson's Pity of War point to an original and proper way to combine military, economic, diplomatic, political and cultural history?

2- Communities at war: From the individual to the state, how did the different levels of social organisation deal with the conflict and its consequences? What kind of solidarities, discrimination & mobilisation processes were at work in 1914-18? What relationship was established between military and civilian needs? Can new light be shed in this way upon the economic and political life of the belligerent societies?

3- The First World War and the intimate: The "totalizing logic" of the Great War meant that it pervaded the most intimate spheres of the belligerent societies. How did the conflict impinge on sexual morality and gender relationships, on individuals and families? From shellshock to home front anxieties and mourning process, how were the variegated sufferings faced? How did contemporary medical science and practices cope with the war?

4- Intellectual responses to the war: What kind of artistic, literary & scholarly responses did the war provoke? Where did the dividing line run through these different responses? What should be deemed as paramount: degree and qualities of participation in the war effort, nationality, or intellectual generation?

The official languages of the conference will be English and French.

Vendredi 7 Septembre 2001 Friday 7 September 2001

9 am/ 9 h Opening of conference / Ouverture des débats Jean-Jacques Becker, Université de Paris X - Nanterre (sous réserve - to be confirmed)

PREMIÈRE SEANCE - FIRST SESSION FAIRE ET MENER LA GUERRE - WAGING WAR Sous la présidence de / Chair : Dennis Showalter, Colorado College, American Society of Military History

9.30 - 9.55 Dr Susan Grayzel, (University of Mississippi), " Militariser les civils: rapports de genre et réactions culturelles face aux bombardements aériens durant la Première Guerre mondiale " 'Militarizing Civilians: Gender and Cultural Responses to Aerial Bombardment during the First World War'

9.55 - 10.20 Michelle Moyd, (Cornell University, New York), "Le racisme allemand durant la campagne d'Afrique de l'Est" 'German racism in the East Africa campaign'

10.20 - 10.45 Andrew Parsons, (King's College, London), " La réponse britannique à la guerre chimique en 1914-1918 " 'The British response to Chemical Warfare in WW1'

10.45 - 11.00 Pause - Break

11.00 - 11.25 Dr Anne Duménil, (Université de Picardie), " Souffrance combattante et justice militaire dans l'armée allemande de la Grande Guerre " 'Combatant's suffering and military justice in WWI German army'

11.25 - 11.50 Dr Helen McCartney, (J.S.C.S.C., GB), " Identité municipale et consentement à la guerre " 'Civic identity and motivation in war' 11.50 - 12.15 Dr Michael Neiberg, (U.S.A.F.), " Les relations entre civils et militaires français et américains durant la Grande Guerre " 'US & French civil-military relations in the Great War '

12.15 - 12.45 Discussion. Animateur / Discussant : Dr Adrian Gregory, Pembroke College, Oxford University

1 o'clock Déjeuner - Lunch DEUXIEME SEANCE - SECOND SESSION LES COMMUNAUTES FACE A LA GUERRE - COMMUNITIES AT WAR Sous la présidence de / Chair : John Horne, Trinity College, Dublin

2.30 - 2.55 Dr Matthew Stibbe, (Liverpool Hope University College), " Ruhleben. Le récit d'internés civils britanniques en Allemagne durant la Première Guerre mondiale. " 'Ruhleben. The Story of British Civilian Internees in Germany during the First World War'

2.55 - 3.20 Dr Eric Lohr, (Harvard University), " Le nationalisme économique russe pendant la Première Guerre mondiale : la campagne contre la présence de sujets ennemis dans l'économie impériale. " 'Russian Economic Nationalism during WW1: the campaign against Enemy Aliens in the Imperial Economy'

3.20 - 3.45 Pierre Purseigle (Université de Toulouse), " En-deça et au-delà des Nations: enjeux et limites d'une histoire comparée des communautés locales en guerre " 'Below and beyond the Nations: towards a comparative history of local communities at war.'

3.45 - 4.00 Pause - Break

4.00 - 4.25 Susanne Terwey, (Simon-Dubnow-Institute for Jewish Culture and History, Leipzig), " Juifs allemands. Juifs et Allemands. Tous les Juifs sont-ils allemands ? La combinaison de l'antisémitisme et de la germanophobie en Grande-Bretagne durant la Grande Guerre. " 'German Jews. Jews and Germans. Are all Jews German? The Combination of Anti-Semitism and Germanophobia in Great Britain during the Great War'

4.25 - 4.50 Emmanuelle Cronier (Paris I - Sorbonne), " La schizophrénie des permissionnaires " 'The schizophrenia of soldiers on leave' 4.50 - 5.15 Stefan Goebel, (Magdalene College, University of Cambridge), " 'Le charbon et l'épée' : l'arrière et son industrie en Allemagne durant la Première Guerre mondiale. " '"Coal and Sword": Forging the Industrial Home Front in Germany during the First World War'

5.15 - 5.45 Discussion

7.30 - 9 Dîner - Conference Dinner

Samedi 8 Septembre 2001 Saturday 8 September 2001

TROISIEME SEANCE - THIRD SESSION LA GRANDE GUERRE DE L'INTIME / THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE INTIMATE Sous la présidence de / Chair : Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Université de Picardie

9 - 9.25 Dr Jean-Yves LeNaour (Université de Toulouse), " Moralisation et déstructuration sociale : le paradoxe de la guerre " 'Moralization and social deconstruction : the war's paradox'

9.25 - 9.50 Jessica Meyer (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge), " L'identité héroïque masculine en Grande-Bretagne face au Shell Shock (choc traumatique) 1914-19. " 'Shell Shock and the Heroic Masculine Identity in Britain 1914-19'

9.50 - 10.15 Dr Tammy Proctor, (Wittenberg University, Ohio), " La Dame Blanche : rapports de genre et espionnage durant la Grande Guerre. " 'La Dame Blanche: Gender and Espionage in the Great War'

10.15 - 10.30 Pause - Break

10.30 -10.55 André Loez (EHESS), " Les larmes des combattants: une histoire " 'The fighters' tears : a history'

10.55 - 11.20 Santanu Das, (St John's College, University of Cambridge), " 'Kiss me Hardy " : Intimité, rapports de genre et Geste dans les tranchées de la Grande Guerre. " '"Kiss me Hardy": Intimacy, Gender and Gesture in the First World War Trenches'

11.20 - 11.45 Dr Hans-Georg Hofer, (University of Freiburg), " La médecine viennoise durant la guerre face au Shellshock (choc traumatique), aux rapports de genre, et à la multi-ethnicité. " 'Shellshock, Gender and the question of multi-ethnicity in Viennese War Medicine'

11.45 - 12.15 Discussion. Animatrice / Discussant : Dr Gail Braybon, University of Brighton

12.30 - 1.30 Déjeuner - Lunch QUATRIEME SEANCE - FOURTH SESSION LES REPONSES INTELLECTUELLES ET SYMBOLIQUES A L A GUERRE / INTELLECTUAL RESPONSES TO WAR Sous la présidence de / Chair : Christophe Prochasson, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

1.30 - 1.55 Ismee Tames (Nyfer, Pays-Bas), " Les intellectuels néerlandais dans la guerre. " 'Dutch intellectuals at war'

1.55 - 2.20 Dr Aaron Cohen (CSU, Sacramento), " La mémoire de la Première Guerre mondiale en Russie. 1917-1939 " 'Meta-myth-making: the Memory of Russia's First World War 1917-1939'

2.20 - 2.45 Dr Olivier Compagnon, (Université de Toulouse), " 14-18 comme agonie de la civilisation: les élites latino-américaines face à la Grande Guerre " '1914-18: the death throes of civilization: Latin-American elites and the Great War.'

2.45 - 3.00 Pause - Break

3.00 - 3.25 Dan Todman, (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge), " Sans peur et sans reproche : la mort de Sir Douglas Haig, Janvier 1928 " 'Sans peur et sans reproche: the death of Sir Douglas Haig, January 1928'

3.25 - 3.50 Dr Jenny Macleod, (Menzies Centre, KCL), " Persistance et renouvellement de la romance de guerre : la Grande-Bretagne, l'Australie, et Gallipoli. " 'The persistence and renewal of the romance of war: Britain, Australia and Gallipoli'

3.50 - 4.15 Thomas Ort (New York University), " Karel Capek et la 'Génération Tchèque' de 1914 " 'Karel Capek and the Czech Generation of 1914'

4.15 - 4.45 Discussion 4.45 - 5 Pause - Break

5pm Débat - Debate entre/between Professor Jay Winter, Columbia University (N.Y.) et/and Professor Arthur Marwick, Open University : 'Modernism, Tradition and the Great War'

6.30 Conclusions - Closing remarks : Antoine Prost, Université de Paris I - Sorbonne

For further information and registration, check out our conference website http://www.kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/ click on Latest News

Or contact Dr Jenny McLeod or Pierre Purseigle at wwi_studies@yahoo.com