Events
Legacies of War seminar: ‘Dying for the nation: death, grief and commemoration in interwar Britain’
Professor Lucy Noakes, University of Essex ‘Dying for the nation: death, grief and commemoration in interwar Britain’ All seminars begin at 17.15 in the Grant Room (3.11), 3rd floor, Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds.
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LoW Seminar Series: Dr Cristina Savettieri “‘Beautiful Wounds: Male Bodies in Distress in the Italian Literature of the Great War”
Lecture about wounded male bodies in Italian literary and visual representations of the First World War.
LoW Seminar Series: Panikos Panayi, “The Global War Against the German ‘Enemy Alien’: Internment in the British Empire, 1914-1920”
During WWI, the British Empire interned tens of thousands of German enemy aliens. The lecture explores the system of incarceration which stretched from Sydney to Newfoundland.
At the Engländerlager Ruhleben: British ‘Enemy Aliens’ in the First World War
Over 5,000 British civilians were interned near Berlin between 1914 and 1918. Drawing on personal documents from Leeds University’s Liddle Collection, Claudia Sternberg introduces some of the internees and their families and considers life in the camp, European mobility before the war and conditions at the time of repatriation.
Film showing: The Hallfmoon Files
Films will be introduced briefly before each screening. Non-English language films are shown in the original; whether subtitles are available is stated below.
Weekly screenings on Tuesdays, 6pm, in Room G.04
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
(University Road, campus map 38)
You are welcome to bring a drink or snack.
Film showing: La victoire en chantant/Black and White in Colour
Films will be introduced briefly before each screening. Non-English language films are shown in the original; whether subtitles are available is stated below.
Weekly screenings on Tuesdays, 6pm, in Room G.04
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
(University Road, campus map 38)
You are welcome to bring a drink or snack.
Military Tribunal Appeals: Training Workshop in York
On 5 December the Clements Hall Local History Group, who have HLF funding for a First World War project, host a training workshop in York.
At the Engländerlager Ruhleben: British ‘Enemy Aliens’ in the First World War
Over 5,000 British civilians were interned near Berlin between 1914 and 1918. Drawing on personal documents from Leeds University’s Liddle Collection, Claudia Sternberg introduces some of the internees and their families. It also considers life in the camp, European mobility before the war and conditions at the time of repatriation.
Seminar Series: Berkan Ulu ‘Achilles Meets Mehmetcik: Heroism in British, Anzac and Turkish Poetry during the Gallipoli Campaign (1915)’
Talk about the construction and deconstruction of ideas of heroism in Gallipoli-related poetry from Turkey, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Film showing: Krieg ist das Ende aller Plane
Films will be introduced briefly before each screening. Non-English language films are shown in the original; whether subtitles are available is stated below.
Weekly screenings on Tuesdays, 6pm, in Room G.04
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
(University Road, campus map 38)
You are welcome to bring a drink or snack.
Film showing: Morgenrot
Films will be introduced briefly before each screening. Non-English language films are shown in the original; whether subtitles are available is stated below.
Weekly screenings on Tuesdays, 6pm, in Room G.04
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
(University Road, campus map 38)
You are welcome to bring a drink or snack.