Legacies of War Seminar Series

For our final seminar of this term, Dr. Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds) will be discussing her Wellcome Trust funded postdoctoral research into masculine identity in relation to the experiences of male care givers in the British armed forces during the First World War.

On Thursday, March 21st, a team of students from the University of Leeds will be presenting ‘Voices of the Past: Chronicles of a Lost Generation’, a free writing workshop open to all with a zeal for anything pertaining to the Great War.

This debate is part of the ongoing Exhibiting Research series, organised by The Courtauld Institute of Art’s MA Programme Curating the Art Museum in collaboration with the Research Forum.

Continuing this term’s theme of ‘race and religion’, Dr. Santanu Das, reader in English Literature at King’s College London, will be joining us to discuss his forthcoming book on India, the British Empire and the First World War.

Adrian Gregory (Pembroke College, Oxford) joins us to discuss religious aspects of the First World War.

In this session of the Legacies of War Seminar series, Simone Pelizza presents a sample of his doctoral study into the work of the founding father of geopolitics, Sir Halford Mackinder.

In this lecture, Rob Thompson examines the impact of society and ‘civilianism’ upon the development and prosecution of battles on the Western Front through a case-study of the operational role of engineering and logistics during the notorious Third Battle of Ypres, 1917.

Krisztina Robert’s talk entitled ‘Local Patriots, Public Enemies, National Heroines, Comrades-in-Arms: the military-civil relations of the Women’s Corps, 1914-1919’ will take place in room 3.11, Michael Sadler Building.