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SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, OCT 17th

4:00pm // Opening session – French

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4:00pm // Bienvenue par Cécile Vanderpelen-Diagre (ULB)

 

4:15pm // Conférence par Jean-Yves Le Naour : Faites des enfants, pas de politique! Natalisme, suffrage universel et retour à l'ordre dans la France de l'après-guerre

 

5:15pm // Drink

THURSDAY, OCT 18st

From 9 am onwards: registration – welcome

 

9:30am // Introduction by Henk de Smaele (University of Antwerp)

 

9:45am // Keynote: Ana Carden-Coyne (Manchester University): The ‘Queer Carnival’ of the First World War: Intimacy, Devotion and Sex before Identity

 

10:45am // Coffee - Tea

 

11:15am // Session 1: Intimacies at the front and beyond

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Chair: Florent VERFAILLIE (Cegesoma: Study Center War and Society - State Archives of Belgium)

 

  • Argha BANERJEE (St Xavier’s College, Kolkata): Intimate Encounters: Indian Soldiers at the Front

 

  • Dominiek DENDOOVEN (Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper): Western women, Eastern Men. How their passage in Europe influenced the Asian rank and file’s perception of and attitude towards women during the First World War

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  • Michael HAMMOND (University of Southampton): Forbidden Zones: Sex, Death and Slang in the War Nurse Production Cycle of the 1930s

 

12:45pm // Lunch

 

2:00pm // Session 2: Sexual violence

 

Chair: Laurence VAN  YPERSELE (Université Catholique de Louvain)

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  • Taline GARIBIAN (Oxford University): Rape of war under medical scrutiny during the First World War

 

  • Stefan HOCK (Georgetown University): A “Moral Sickness”: Medical Discourses on Sex and Sexuality in Turkey After the First World War

 

  • Isa BLUMI (Stockholm University): Reclaiming Purity: The Interminable Concern about Sexual Violence in Postwar Ottoman Lands

 

3:30pm // Coffee - Tea

 

4:00pm // Session 3: Men: real, queer and impersonated

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Chair: Wannes DUPONT (University of Antwerp)

 

  • Lorenzo BENADUSI (European Culture University of Rome / University of Bergamo): The return home: veterans’ masculinity in Italy from postwar to Fascism

 

  • Rachel HOPE CLEVES (University of Victoria): The Sod's Push: Norman Douglas's World War I Exile and the New Sexual Immorality

 

  • Julian WALKER (British Library): The influence of the portrayal of transgressive sexuality in popular magazines in the First World War

 

7:00pm // CONGRESDINER

 

FRIDAY, OCT 19st

9:30 am // Keynote: Heike Bauer (Birkbeck, University of London): At War: Nationalism and Modern Homosexual Rights

  • With an introduction by Kaat Wils (KU Leuven)

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10:30am // Coffee - Tea

 

11:00am // Session 4: Womanhood and motherhood redefined

 

Chair: Amandine LAURO (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

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  • Shaul BAR-HAIM (University of Essex): Modernity as a crisis of motherhood: the ‘maternalizing movement’ in interwar Britain

 

  • Kathy J. COOKE (University of South Alabama): Rejecting ‘Superwomen’: From Race Betterment to Scientific Eugenics in Post-Great War America

 

  • Maarten LANGHENDRIES (KU Leuven): Félicie Dubois: female maternal care in a period of conflict

 

12:30pm // Lunch

 

2:00pm // Session 5: Love and Peace

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Chair: Marnix BEYEN (University of Antwerp)

 

  • Natalia PUSHKAREVA (Russian Academy of Sciences): Sexuality and Sexual Reform in Russia after the First World War: From sexual anarchy to attempt to restore the tradition

 

  • Tiina KINNUNEN (University of Oulu): Ellen Key on gender, war and peace

 

  • Brigitte RATH (Independent Researcher, Austria): Towards New Ideals of Love

 

3:30pm // Coffee - Tea

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4:00pm // Final session: conclusions and final discussion by Stefan Dudink (Radboud University)

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