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BEYOND THE WESTERN FRONT
IN WORLD WAR I
Friday, April 24, 2015
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Lower Level Conference Room
2 - 3.30 p.m. Ideas and Books: Informational Warfare and Cultural Reckonings
Introduction: Charles S. Maier (Harvard)
Heidi J. S. Tworek (Harvard)
“Germany in the Ether: News and Propaganda around the World”
Nicole Jordan (University of Illinois at Chicago)
“The Gas War on the Eastern Front in June 1915,
Depicted in André Malraux’s Les Noyers de l’Altenburg”
Commentator: Thomas Weber (University of Aberdeen)
3.30 - 4 p.m. Coffee Break
4 - 5.30 p.m. Travelers and Soldiers: Women and Men at War
Introduction: Margaret Higonnet (University of Connecticut)
Santau Das (King’s College, London)
“Indian Sepoys in German POW Camps, Europe, and Other Fronts”
Angela K. Smith (University of Plymouth)
“British Women of the Eastern Front: Travel Writers and Romantics?”
Commentator: Michelle Mann (Brandeis University)
Contacts: Heidi Tworek, [email protected]
Margaret Higonnet, [email protected]
Sponsored by University of Plymouth and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University