The Great War and the Moving Image
An international conference organised by the University of Kent in conjunction with the University of Southampton and in association with the Imperial War Museum.
This interdisciplinary conference will explore the Great War through all forms of moving images including cinema, television and computer games. It will bring together international scholars and heritage professionals to examine the ways genres have translated across media and how images were received, creating popular understandings of the war and feeding into wider commemorative processes. The moving image will be examined in terms of circulation, distribution and representation.
This will be the first major international conference of its kind to explore these issues and it aims to identify further research synergies, forming the basis for future collaboration.
Conference Rates:
Registration fee: £40 (£25 for postgraduates)
Day rate: £30 per day (£20 for postgraduates)
Optional Waitress Dinner on Tuesday and Wednesday @ £33.50 per night
Single en-suite Bed and breakfast accommodation is available at £35 per night.
For any Registration/Payment queries please contact: Sheena Butterworth via eventregistrations@kent.ac.uk
Conference Venue: Grimond Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ , UK
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Programme:
Tuesday 15th April 2014: The Moving Image in the Great War
0930 Registration in the foyer of the Grimond building
1000 Coffee
1030 Welcome from Professor David Welch (University of Kent) and an introduction to the theme of the conference
1100 Panel I - Supporting the War Effort
Chair: Prof David Welch (University of Kent)
Britain Prepared and Holland Neutral: two examples of using the new film medium to support the war effort - Natalia Borowska (AMU Poznań)
Putting the moral into morale: wartime cinema and the YMCA - Dr Emma Hanna (University of Greenwich)
Official newsreels and World War I - Dr Luke McKernan (Lead Curator, Moving Image, The British Library)
1300 Lunch
1400 Panel II - Soldiers–Fall In!
Chair: Prof Adrian Smith (University of Southampton)
'Going to the pictures’ on the Western Front - Prof James Chapman (University of Leicester) & Prof Krista Cowman (University of Lincoln)
Dumb, Drunk and Dancing Sailors: The Role of Naval Comedy Films during the 'Cult of the Navy’ and the First World War - Dr Victoria Carolan (Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich)
Soldiers as Audiences During the Great War - Dr Amanda Laugesen (Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University)
1600 Tea
1615 Panel III - Reporting the Battlefield
Chair: Prof Mark Connelly (University of Kent)
British soldiers at the cinema 1914-1918 - Dr Nick Hiley (University of Kent)
Official Combat film and images of the Horrors of War - Dr Toby Haggith, (Imperial War Museum)
Rethinking Gallipoli on film: With the Dardanelles Expedition: heroes of Gallipoli - Michael Kosmider (Preservation Officer in the Film and Sound section at the Australian War Memorial)
1900 Reception (Conference Suite, Darwin College)
1930 Dinner (Darwin College)
followed by:
Screening: 28MM Pathé Kok: The Great War ( Grimond Lecture Theatre 1)
The first presentation in Britain of 9 digitized films, originally on the rare 28mm gauge. The opportunity of EFG1914 brought these particular war reports, pioneers of home - cinema, to the attention of Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique and Deutsches Filminstitut. A digitization plan was set up to meet technical challenges, bringing both collections into a joint programme. In July 2013 the digitized films were first presented at Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna with a 10’ introduction and live piano accompaniment. In October 2013, advanced historical research resulted in an alternative mode of screening performance in Brussels: without live music, but with commentary on the history of the film gauge as well as the events shown. - Anke Mebold (Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF Frankfurt) and Bruno Mestdagh (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique)
Wednesday 16th April 2014: National Identity and Popular Memory of the Great War
0900 Panel IV - The British Experience
Chair: tbc
Theatrical reality and creative reconstruction - Philip Dutton (Curator in the Imperial War Museum’s Department of Exhibits)
Am I the Lion or the Donkey? – The role of the player and representations of the First World War in computer games - Dr Chris Kempshall
The 'Scrap of Paper’: Wartime Bigamy and Marriage in 1920s British films - Dr Lawrence Napper (King’s College London)
1100 Coffee
1130 Panel V - The European Experience
Chair: tbc
Liminal Landscapes? Italy and the Great War - Dr Maurizio Cinquegrani (University of Kent)
Images of the First World War in the Russian cinema - Dr Victor Avdeev (Moscow State University)
1300 Lunch
1400 Panel VI - The North American Experience
Chair: tbc
Beyond the Tango: National Identity and Popular Memory of the War in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) - Dr Mark Glancy, (Queen Mary University of London)
War Relic and Forgotten Man: Richard Barthelmess as Celluloid Veteran in Hollywood 1922 - 1933 - Dr Michael Hammond, (University of Southampton)
Hello to All That: 1927, Paris, the American Legion, and a Buffalo - Professor Susan Brewer (University of Wisconsin)
1600 Tea
1630 Panel Discussion: “Local Tracks” - Traces of the Cinema Cultures in Four Midsize Cities in Europe, Britain and the United States, 1914 - 1918
Chaired by Dr Michael Hammond (Southampton)
Leen Engelen (LUCA & Leuven University)
Leslie Midkiff DeBauche, (University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point)
Klaas Zwaan, (Utrecht University)
1900 Reception (Conference Suite, Darwin College)
1930 Dinner (Darwin College)
followed by:
Screening: Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
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Contact:
Zoë Denness
School of History
Rutherford College
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent CT2 7NX
UK
T: +44 (0)1227 827052