We are very pleased to announce that our conference on 'War, Medicine, and Emotion', which had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is now due to take place on 24th and 25th of November at the National Army Museum, London. The presentations will be a mixture of in-person and online and 15 spaces are available for non-speakers who would like to attend. Registration is free and the event is fully-catered. Please follow this link to sign up or contact Dr James Kennaway for further details. A full programme can be found below:
Wednesday 24 November
9:30-10:00 – Registration, etc.
10:00-11:30 – Panel 1
Emotions in World War Two
Anastasia Zaplatina – “Venereal Diseases in the Red Army: Moral standards, Sexuality and Gender Order, 1941-1945”.
Christine Slobogin – “Percy Hennell Goes to War: Emotional Perspectives in World War II Photographic Projects”.
Frances Houghton –“What’s Up, Doc? The Emotional Life of RN Medical Officers at Sea during the Second World War”.
11:30-11:45 – Tea break
11:45-13:15 – Panel 2
Military Emotions, Nationality and Colonialism
Julien von Reitzenstein – “Unveiling the Crime of the Strasbourg Skull Collection”.
Arnab Chakraborty – “Medical Care from Military to Civilian Domain: Colonial Madras in the First World War”. (online)
James Kennaway, “‘The Strength to Endure’: Surgical Fortitude, Race and Empire in British India, 1757–1914” (online)
13:15-14:15 – Lunch
14:15-15:45 – Panel 3
Emotions and War since 1945
Alice Tofts – “Emotion in Institutional, Individual and Familial Memories of the Holocaust”.
Angela Potter – “Medical Monuments: United State Veterans Administration Hospitals in a changing Therapeutic Landscape, 1945-1977”. (online)
Muira McCammon – “The Afterlives of Gitmo Guards: Navigating Hierarchies of Trauma Claims in the Security State” (online).
15:45-16:00 – Tea break
16:00-17:30 – Keynote – Jessica Meyer: '"Enough to break the spirit of war in any man": The emotional labour of military medical servicemen in the First World War'
18:00 – Dinner – 11 Pimlico Road
Thursday 25 November
9:00-10:30 – Panel 4
War and Emotion: Germans and Britons
Sebastian Pranghofer – “Fear, Greed and Ambition in the Management of Infectious Diseases during the Seven Years War in North-West Germany”. (online)
Louise Bell – “‘The only thing I Dread is Losing a Limb – I’d far rather be Killed’: Limbless men in Britain after the First World War”.
Tom Thorpe – A Brotherhood in Comradely Arms? The Extent and Nature of Emotional Bonding in the Trenches”.
10:30-10:45 – Tea break
10:45-12:15 – Panel 5
Emotions in the Wake of World War One
Jason Bate – “New Emotional Experiences of Recovery and Family Reflections in Post-First World War Britain” (online).
Diana Novaceanu – “A New Art for a New Man: the Medicalized Body of the Weimar Republic” (online).
Jana Jankuliakova – “Bodies in Pain: Depiction of War Injuries in the Works of German Expressionist Artist Max Beckmann, 1914-1918” (online).
12:15-13:15 – Lunch
13:15-14:45 – Panel 6
Nineteenth-Century Military Emotions
Nebiha Guiga – “The Emotions of Surgery on Napoleonic Battlefields”.
Aris Sarafianos – “The Battle of Waterloo and Reality-Sensations in Art and Surgery”.
Amy Milne-Smith – “Men and Trauma: Forgotten stories of Victorian soldiers and mental health” (online).
14:45-15:00 – Tea break
15:00-16:30 – Panel 7
Gender, Emotion and War
Katerina Piro – “Emotions and Fertility: Experience from Germany during World War II”.
Chloe Nahum – “‘Such are the dreams of English women today’: Dreams and the Female Civilian in the First World War”.
Anna Gehl – “‘Not being a Man, I Wanted to do the Next Best Thing’: Gender, Shell Shock and the First World War”.
16:30-16:45 – Tea break
16:45-18:00 – Round Table (Brown, Kennaway, Mayhew, Furneaux)
18:00 - Wine Reception
Image: Operation to Remove a Tumour, 1817 (Wellcome)
