Although historians dealing with war will inevitably be called to concentrate their attention on violence, often the understanding of how violence itself was perceived, understood, imagined and experienced by combatants and civilians is neglected. Much still needs to be said about how war was shaped by and, in turn, influenced, modern perceptions of violence.

Considering war, as John Keegan has put it, first and foremost as 'a cultural act', this international two-day conference calls attention to the ways in which warfare violence was imagined and understood during the modern era, focusing on the distance between expectations and experiences of war; on the distance between - or coincidence of - 'imagined' and the 'real' wars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Conference Venue:  University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL SSEES), Room 347, 16 Taviton Street, London EC1H 0BW, UK

Please see the attached PDF file below for the full programme

Please note that admission to this event is free without a ticket.

Please email Dr. Matthew D'Auria (m.dauria@ucl.ac.uk) to register.

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Contact:

Dr Matthew D'Auria

Research Associate

UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society

m.dauria@ucl.ac.uk