*CFP* "SHARING WAR MEMORIES - FROM THE MILITARY TO THE CIVILIAN", WAR MEMORIES CONFERENCE 2020/21

War Memories (2020/21)

Sharing War Memories – From the Military to the Civilian

22, 23 & 24 June 2021 (Le Mans University)

 

War narratives are subject to emphases, orientations and points of view that give a particular flavour to wars fought by populations (anonymously, individually and/or hidden in an organisation, secret or not) and by the military (from high command to the ‘unknown soldier’). Such accounts evolve with the benefit of hindsight, the writing of history textbooks and the constant (re)interpretations of archives (new or not) and the official version a country wishes to put forward according to its political agendas and visions of patriotism, citizenship and human rights, or its diplomatic or international policy objectives. The narratives of wars vary with the context and the need for men and women to express their inner feelings when faced with the torments and human atrocities of war; they also reflect the place of individuals within a group and the implications of group cohesion within the larger community.

*CFP* "20 YEARS LATER: LOOKING BACK AT 9/11", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

20 Years Later: Looking Back at 9/11, International Conference

October, 7-8, 2021

University of Toulouse, Jean Jaurès, Francia 

Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, the Universities of Toulouse and Montpellier in the South of France are joining forces to organize an international interdisciplinary conference on these events. Its aim is to analyze, not only the events and their short-term consequences with a two-decade hindsight, but also the many ways in which those events have been perceived, represented, commented upon, co-opted or rewritten along the years. It also invites reflections upon the way in which some of these responses, representations or co-optations have been in their turn received, commented upon and used in this 20-year period. The scope of the conference is interdisciplinary, as it welcomes contributions from scholars specializing in history (contemporary, political, institutional, military), geopolitics, international relations, sociology, psychology, law, economics, media and communication studies, literature, film studies, art, architecture, and popular culture. The conference is meant as a place for fruitful cross reflections on images, discourses, facts that have been seen, heard, told thousands of times, with varied intentions and perspectives. Joint paper proposals by two or three specialists from different fields are particularly welcome. Two interdisciplinary round tables will also be organized. 

*CFP* “WAR MEMORIES: SHARING WAR MEMORIES. FROM THE MILITARY TO THE CIVILIAN”, LE MANS UNIVERSITY 2020 CONFERENCE

War Memories.

Sharing War Memories. From the Military to the Civilian 

24-26 de junio de 2020

Le Mans University, Francia

With keynote speeches by:

Jonathan Bignell (Professor of Television and Film, Reading University, United Kingdom)

Keynote provisional  title: Television and Ephemerality: Remembering and Forgetting War

Daniel Palmieri (Historian, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland)

Keynote provisional title: Now, the World without me. Humanitarians and Sexual Violence in Time of War.

Stéphanie Bélanger (Professor, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario)

Keynote provisional title: Voice or Loyalty? Dealing with Memories in the Armed Forces