The War to End All Wars Program
Thursday, October 27: Faculty Club |
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| 5:00-5:30 pm | Reception | |
| 5:30-6:45 pm | Keynote Address: The Redefinition of Battle: Verdun and the Somme, 1916 |
Sir Hew Strachan
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| Friday, October 28: Fawcett Center Ballroom |
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| 8:00-8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30-8:35 am | Welcome | Peter Mansoor |
| 8:35-8:40 am | Poetry Readings: To Germany by Charles Hamilton Sorley (1885-1915) Read by Benito Lara, MFA actor and The Dancers (During a Great Battle, 1916) by Edith Sitwell (1887 – 1964) Read by Mandy Mitchell, MFA actor |
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| 8:40-9:50 am | The Military History of World War I, 1914-1918 | Peter Mansoor |
| 9:50-9:55 am | Poetry Reading: The Song of Mud by Mary Borden (1886—1968) Read by Blake Edwards, Joe Kopyt, and Ambre Shoneff, MFA actors |
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| 9:55-11:05 am | Financing the First World War | Jennifer Siegel |
| 11:05-11:20 am | Break | |
| 11:20-11:25 am | Poetry Reading: Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg (1890—1918) Read by Linnea Bond, MFA actor |
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| 11:25-12:35 pm | War, Death, and Remembrance in 1914-1918 | Bruno Cabanes |
| 12:35-2:00 pm | Lunch—Documentary film: “The Somme” | |
| 2:00-2:05 pm | Poetry Reading: Picnic, July 1917 by Rose Macaulay (1881—1958) Read by Zack Meyer and Sara Perry, MFA actors |
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| 2:05-3:15 pm | WWI and the Emerging Laws of War | John Quigley |
| 3:15-3:30 pm | Break | |
| 3:30-3:35 pm | Poetry Reading: Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen (1893—1918) Read by Kahla Tisdale, MFA actor |
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| 3:35-4:45 pm | Shell Shock: Core Insights of the Recent Historiography | Mark Micale |
| 4:45-4:50 pm | Closing Remarks | Peter Mansoor |
| 5:15-6:00 pm | Reception | |
| 6:00-8:00 pm | Symposium Banquet Lecture: Experiencing World War I | Jennifer Keene |