and the Cultures of Victory and Peace (1919-1933)
Friday, 23rd / Saturday 24th October 2009:
Trinity College Dublin, Arts Building, 6th Floor, Room C6002
The Great War created a new social group throughout Europe: ex-servicemen. Whilst the associations and ideas that linked this group suggest a transnational phenomenon, thus far veterans have been primarily examined in a national framework. The aim of this workshop is to consider ex-servicemen at an international and transnational level, especially by focusing on the former Allied powers.
Through a study of `cultures of victory' throughout Europe, the workshop will consider the emergence of an inter-Allied veteran internationalism embodied i.e. by the Fédération Interalliée des Anciens Combattants (FIDAC). The `cultures of victory' were then partly transformed by a process of cultural demobilization into one of attempted reconciliation and peace, in which it established an uncertain and contested juncture with ex-servicemen' s organizations from the defeated powers. This process is embodied by the Conférence Internationale des Associations de Mutilés et Anciens Combattants (CIAMAC), which became the unofficial ex-servicemen' s organization of the League of Nations. By exploring the attitudes of `victorious' inter-Allied veterans to `defeated' veterans of the Central Powers, the workshop will also consider the scope and limits of internationalism in the post-war decade, with particular reference to the former Allied countries in Eastern and Western Europe.
Programme
Friday 23rd October 2009
2pm Registration and Introduction
Julia Eichenberg (TCD) / John Paul Newman (UCD)
2:30pm Panel I Commemorating Victory and the Soldiers' Sacrifice.
Chair: Stefan Malinowski (UCD)
Niall Barr (King's College London): British Commemoration of Veteran Volunteers
John Paul Newman (UCD): Serbia and the Allied Victory
4-4:30pm Tea & Coffee
4:30-6pm Panel II Apolitical Politics?
Chair: Anne Dolan (TCD)
Antoine Prost (CHS Paris): The Victory of French Citizens-Soldiers
Martina Salvante (EUI Florence): Some Observations on the Italian Association of War Disabled and its International Involvement
6pm wine reception
8pm conference dinner
Saturday 24th October 2009
9:30 am Panel III Forgotten Allied Veterans: Eastern Europe and Ireland
Chair: Balasz Apor (TCD)
Katya Kocurek (London): "Jacob Flanders-Czech style": Internalizing wartime `victories' and the rise of militarism amongst legionary-veterans in 1920s Czechoslovakia
Eva Morrison (TCD): Identity and Allegiance among Irish Great War Veterans, 1919-1928
11-11:30am Tea & Coffee
11:30am Panel IV Veterans Transnationalism
Chair: William Mulligan (UCD)
Thomas Davies (City University London): Veterans and Disarmament
Julia Eichenberg (TCD): " A very efficient medium for propaganda" – Veterans Internationalism and the League of Nations
1pm Conclusions by John Horne (TCD) and discussion
1:30 pm lunch and end of workshop
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