The Great War, A Hundred Years On: Origins, Lessons, and Legacies of the first World War
- When? November 6-8, 2014.
- Where? Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville GA.
- Deadline: April 28, 2014.
The
sponsoring organizations at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) invite papers from
scholars examining topics related to the Great War. As the
conference is commemorating the outbreak of World War I in 1914, papers
exploring its origins will form one point of focus for the conference. But
the organizers also envision panels investigating other major topics that fit
within the wider theme of the lessons and legacies of the Great War broadly
construed, including—but not limited to—collective memory and memory politics,
gender and minority experiences, trauma and “brutalization,” cultural
approaches to the war and its representation, and the broader impact of the
conflict on the non-Western world. Presentations dealing with
approaches to teaching the Great War in the classroom are also greatly
encouraged. The committee will consider proposals for individual
papers or entire panels (3-4 papers) that will be peer-reviewed by an
interdisciplinary group of scholars interested in these questions. The
organizers plan to undertake the publication of selected papers in either a
scholarly journal or in book form after the conference.
