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The Herrenhausen Symposium "The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, continuities and memories" takes place in Hanover from May 8-10, 2017. It focuses on the relation between global history and social history, highlighting actors and regions, and it systematically engages with the issue of diverse periodizations. In discussing linkages between experience, historiography, and commemoration, the symposium aims at unsettling the notion of a static and clearly defined "end" of the First World War, a construct mainly based on European developments.
While the armistice of November 11, 1918 marked the end of fighting on the Western Front, the case was different in other parts of the world, particularly in the former Russian and Ottoman Empires as well as in East Africa, where armed conflicts related to the destruction and re-formation of political orders persisted, in some parts even for several years. These struggles affected daily life and biographical trajectories as well as local perceptions, representations and interpretations of the War. Which events or developments marked the "end" of the war? How did the processes which marked the end of the War differ regionally, and how did prisoners of war, demobilized soldiers, women, or children from and in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East perceive and experience the "end"? How did this "end" influence new networks, social movements, society, economic processes, or ecological developments? And how were these questions discussed by contemporary intellectuals in Asia, Africa or the Middle East?
With the centennial of the outbreak of the War in 1914 and the increasing temporal distance it conveys, the nature of remembrance, too, is changing. The centennial in 2014 was marked by extensive commemoration activities in many parts of the world, not only on various political levels but also in the media, in the fields of literature and in the arts. The symposium asks whether and how they shaped contemporary dialogues on commemoration, not only in Asia, Africa, or Latin America but also in Europe. Can the loss of "Zeitzeugen" be compensated by the use of electronic and other media? And: does this make transnational commemoration easier (or more difficult)? We are particularly interested in issues and questions of what could be called "non-memory", forgotten or submerged memories. What is written out of historical narratives and what is being rediscovered? In this respect, the symposium will also discuss questions of changing memories and contested commemorations.
PROGRAM
The program for the Symposium "The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, continuities and memories" can be found in the download area and on our website: https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/events/calendar-of-events/details-of-events...
Session 1: Post-War Political Frameworks, Networks and Movements
Session 2: New Fault Lines, New Wars
Session 3: The Shaping of Cultural Memories
Session 4: Humanitarianism
Session 5: Ecological Impacts of the War
Session 6: Reversed Attitudes
Session 7: Remembrance without "Zeitzeugen"?
Session 8: Sharing History: Museums and Exhibitions
Session 9: New Historiographies
Session 10: Towards a New Chronology
TRAVEL GRANTS
The Volkswagen Foundation offers travel grants for PhD students researching on the First World War in an outer-European perspective. Applicants can win one of six travel grants to take part in the Herrenhausen Symposium "The Long End of the First World War" in Hanover, Germany. The deadline for applications is November 1, 2016. Successful applicants will get the chance to discuss their research with senior scholars in a special PhD session on May 8, 2017 and shortly present their main argument in the plenum. Their posters on the PhD project will be displayed during the symposium. The grants include travel expenses to and from Hanover, visa fees (if applicable), as well as accommodation in Hanover. Please read the pdf in the download area or on our website.
REGISTRATION
If you would like to attend the conference, please register by clicking on the registration link on our website: https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/events/calendar-of-events/details-of-events... There are no fees for attendance but registration is essential.
LANGUAGE
The conference language is English.
VENUE
The conference is held at Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover, Germany.
Information on participating / attending:
If you would like to attend the conference, please register by clicking on the registration link on our website: https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/events/calendar-of-events/details-of-events... There are no fees for attendance but registration is essential.
Date:
05/08/2017 13:00 - 05/10/2017 18:00
Registration deadline:
05/07/2017
Event venue:
Herrenhausen Palace / tagungszentrum Schloss Herrenhausen
Herrenhäuser Str. 5
30419 Hannover
Niedersachsen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Social studies
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
07/01/2016
Sender/author:
Jens Rehländer
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event54787
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