The University of Leeds is planning a major international conference to consider and debate the various forms and expressions of resistance to the First World War within and across national contexts. It will coincide with the introduction of conscription in Britain, but will explore national, international and transnational aspects of resistance to the First World War.

There will be panels on:

-  the cultural representations of pacifism and the mobilization of art and literature to oppose the war

-  memory and commemoration of anti-war activism, including during the centenary

-  Classicists' resistance to war

-  links and continuities with present-day organisations such as the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

-  groups and individuals committed to the international reconciliation of former enemies

-  the global dimensions of war resistance

-  ideological, feminist, political and religious motivations for opposing the war

-  the costs of war in terms of human suffering and trauma

-  Conscientious Objection and its international legacies

-  pacifism in the inter-war period.

Offers of individual papers, panels or round tables are welcome.

Please send these (500 words and 1 page cv) to i.e.sharp@leeds.ac.uk

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Contact:

Ingrid Sharp

University of Leeds

i.e.sharp@leeds.ac.uk