King’s College London and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joint International Conference
War, Demobilization and Memory:
The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions
London, Thursday, 30 May – Saturday, 1 June 2013
Program
For a Conference Report click here
Thursday, 30 May 2013
King’s College London, Strand, The Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
5:00 pm:
WELCOME: Adam Sutcliffe (Head of the KCL Department of History), Mervyn Frost (Head of the KCL Department of War Studies) and Lloyd Kramer (Chair of the UNC Department of History)
INTRODUCTION: Michael Rowe (King’s College London, Department of History)
KEYNOTE: David Bell (Princeton University, Department of History)
The Birth of Militarism in the West, 1780-1815
MODERATION: Michael Rowe (King’s College London, Department of History)
DISCUSSION
7:00 pm: RECEPTION
8:00 pm: DINNER
Friday, 31 May 2013
UNC Winston House European Study Center London, 3 Bedford Square
9:00 am – 7:30 pm
WELCOME: James L. Leloudis (UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History, Associate Dean for Honors; Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence and the UNC Winston House London)
INTRODUCTION: Karen Hagemann (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
9:00 – 12:15 am: Session I: DEMOBILIZING ARMIES: THE MILITARY AND CULTURAL LEGACY OF WAR
MODERATION: Karen Hagemann (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
PARTICIPANTS:
- Leighton S. James (University of Swansea, Department of History)
War Veterans in the Central European Armies and Societies after 1815
- Andrew Lambert (King’s College London, Department of War Studies)
The Cultural Construction of the American-British War of 1812
- Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State University, Department of History)
Arms for Revolutions: Demobilization after 1815 and Latin American Independence
10:45 – 11:15 am: Coffee Break
COMMENT: Wayne E. Lee (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
DISCUSSION
12:15 am – 1:15 pm: Lunch Break
1:15 – 3:30 pm: Sessions II: RESTORING POST-WAR ECONOMIES
MODERATION: Michael Rowe (King’s College London, Department of History)
PARTICIPANTS:
- John Maass (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
North Carolina and the New Nation: The 1780s Reconstruction and Reconciliation Efforts
- Katherine Aaslestadt (West Virginia University, Department of History)
Immediate and Enduring Costs of War: The Economic and Social Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars in the Hanseatic Cities and Saxony
- David Todd (King’s College London, Department of History)
The Restoration of the Economic Old Regime in France and its Colonies, 1814–1830
- Janet Hartley (London School of Economics, International History)
Russia in the Napoleonic Era: War, Economy, and Utopianism
COMMENT: Geoffrey Ellis (Oxford University, Faculty of History)
Abstract & Bio
DISCUSSION
3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 – 7:00 pm: Session III: DEMILITARIZING AND RE-ORDERING SOCIETIES
MODERATION: Andrew Lambert (King’s College London, Department of War Studies)
PARTICIPANTS:
- Cassandra Pybus (University of Sydney, Department of History)
Enterprising Women: Race, Gender and Power in the Revolutionary Caribbean
- Christine Haynes (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of History)
Making Friends Out of Enemies: The Allied Occupation of France, 1815–1818
- John A. Davis (University of Connecticut, Department of History and Institut d’études avancées (IEA) Paris)
War and Peace in Italy, 1812-1815
- Alexander M. Martin (University of Notre Dame, Department of History)
Moscow after Napoleon: Reconciliation, Rebuilding, and Contested Memories
6:00 – 6:15 pm Coffee Break
COMMENT: Alan Forrest (University of York, Department of History)
DISCUSSION
7:00 pm: RECEPTION
OPENING: Lloyd Kramer (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History) and
Andrew Lambert (King’s College London, Department of War Studies)
8:00 pm: DINNER
Saturday, 1 June 2013
UNC Winston House European Study Center London, 3 Bedford Square
9:00 am – 5:30 pm
9:00 – 12.30 am: Session IV: THE CONFLICTED AFTERMATH OF WAR IN POLITICS AND POLITICAL CULTURE
MODERATION: Alan Forrest (University of York, Department of History)
PARTICIPANTS:
- Stefan Dudink (University of Nijmegen, Institute for Gender Studies)
Domestic Masculinity in Pre- and Post-war Dutch Political Culture
- Michael Rowe (King’s College London, Department of History)
The Post-war Political Culture in German Central Europe
- Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)
Gender in the Political Discourse of Post-Liberation Spanish South America and Spain
- John Bew (King’s College London, Department of War Studies)
The High Politics of Post-war Reconstruction in Britain
10:45 – 11:15 am: Coffee Break
COMMENT: Lloyd Kramer (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
DISCUSSION
12:15 am – 1:15 pm: Lunch Break
1:15 – 3:30 pm: Session V: POST-WAR CULTURE AND CONTESTED POST-WAR MEMORIES
MODERATION: Stefan Dudink (University of Nijmegen, Institute for Gender Studies)
PARTICIPANTS:
- Gregory T. Knouff (Keene State College, Department of History)
Seductive Sedition: New Hampshire Loyalists’ Memories of the American Revolution
- Alan Forrest (University of York, Department of History)
Remembering the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in France and Britain
- Karen Hagemann (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
War, History, and Memory: The Anti-Napoleonic Wars in Nineteenth Century German Historiography
- Matthew Brown (University of Bristol, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)
Creating National Heroes: The Memories of the Spanish American Wars of Independence
COMMENT: Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick, School of Comparative American Studies)
DISCUSSION
3:30 – 4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm: Session VI: FINAL ROUNDTABLE
MODERATION: Karen Hagemann (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
Concluding Comment: Michael Broers (University of Oxford, Faculty of History)
BRIEF COMMENT:
- Lloyd Kramer (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
-
Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College London, Department of History)
- Arthur Burns (King’s College London, Department of History)
DISCUSSION
