The Arts & Humanities Research Institute at King’s College London, in conjunction with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, is staging an international conference on the Cultural Legacies of World War I, to be held at King’s Strand Campus from 21-23 May 2015.
The conference will cover a wide range of aspects of how the First World War changed the world, such as its geopolitical aftermath (and its current repercussions in the Middle East); how people thought about future wars; the war’s impact on social history, the arts and popular cultures, and on science, technology, nursing and medicine.
Confirmed Keynote speakers include:
- Professor Bill Balthrop and Professor Carole Blair, Professors of Rhetorical Studies, University of North Carolina
- Dr Santanu Das, Department of English, King’s College London
- Professor David Edgerton, Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London
- Dr Kate McLoughlin, University of Oxford
- Professor Anne Marie Rafferty, Professor of Nursing Policy at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery,King's College London
- Dr Eugene Rogan, Director, The Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford
- Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
For the draft programme and further details, please see:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/WW1.aspx
