Globalising and Localising the Great War

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This network was funded from June 2014 to June 2016.

The Globalising and Localising the Great War (GLGW) research network was founded to commemorate the First World War (FWW) centenary through the production of groundbreaking research. It comprised scholars, both young and established, who study the War in a global rather than merely European context, and whose chronological focus is not confined to the period 1914-18. Established in late 2013, as a joint initiative between the Changing Character of War Programme (Pembroke College) (http://www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/) and the Oxford Centre for Global History (Faculty of History) (http://global.history.ox.ac.uk/), GLGW continued through into mid 2019 in order to commemorate the entirety of the conflict and peace process.

Since its inception, it has hosted several international conferences and workshops, established an extensive seminar series, formed collaborative intra- and inter-university relationships and worked with local communities on public engagement events. It has successfully fundraised for two JRFs, three graduate scholarships, and three externally funded research projects.

GLGW culminated in 2019 with a three-day international academic conference, ‘A World Transformed: The First World War and its Legacy’, and an Oxfordshire public engagement exhibition, ‘Oxford: The War and the World’. An online exhibition and public engagement events were also planned. Together these events highlighted the continuing legacy and consequences of the First World War for contemporary society.

For further information, please visit the website (http://greatwar.history.ox.ac.uk/).

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Globalising and localising the Great War

 
 
Globalising and Localising the Great War Seminar – a series of 39 seminars were held Thursdays between 13.00 and 14.30 in the History Faculty. (January 2015 - June 2018) 
 
Dr. Roderick Bailey - "Dealing with the Baby-killers: British handling and interrogation of captured Zeppelin crews, 1916-18" (January 2015) 
 
Claire Morelon - "Catholics in Central Europe and the First World War" (February 2015) 
 
Andrew McCarthy & Amanda-Jane Doran - "The Huns have got my Gramophone!" (March 2015) 
Globalising and Localising the Great War |Contact name: Aoife O'Gorman 
 
Médecins Hors-La-Loi: The Practice of "Illegal" Medicine in Algeria During the First World War (January 2016)  
part of the Globalising and Localising the Great War Graduate Seminar Series 
 
The ‘Green Cadres’ and the Collapse of Austria-Hungary In 1918 (January 2016) 
 
Driving the Mandate: Automobility, World War One and Global Fordism in French Syria-Lebanon, 1916-1934 (February 2016) 
 
Internment and the Fall of the German Empire 1914-1920 (February 2016) 
 
Performing Propaganda: Music and National Identity in Paris and London, 1914-1918 (February 2016) 
 
China’s New Culture Movement in 1919 – A Roundabout Ramification of World War I (February 2016) 
 
Violence as Spectacle: Exhibiting the Great War in The British Empire (March 2016) 
 
Complicity, Criminality and Resistance Beyond the Trenches: French Conduct and Perceptions in the Occupied Nord in the First World War (March 2016) 
 
Inventing the Front: Cognition and Reality in the Great War (October 2016) 
Speaker:  Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford) 
 
Learning to Move on the Parade Ground in the British Army 1914-1918 (October 2016) 
Speaker: Jean-Philippe Miller-Tremblay (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales) 
 
Tabriz Under Two Rival Empires: Ottomans and Russians During the Great War (October 2016) 
Speaker: Fatemeh Masjedi (Zentrum Moderner Orient) 
 
Victorious in Name Only: The Portuguese Republic and its Empire At War, 1916-1918 (November 2016) 
Speaker: Professor Felipe Rebeiro de Meneses (Maynooth University) 
 
Scholarly Identities in War And Peace: The Paris Peace Conference and the Mobilization of Intellect (November 2016) 
American Social Justice Movements and World War One 
Speaker: Tomás Irish (Swansea University) 
 
Rescuing Maritime Strategy from the Continental Commitment: Julian Corbett's Analysis of Gallipoli and Jutland in the Official History of Naval Operations (November 2016) 
Speaker: Professor Andrew Lambert (King's College London) 
 
Kde Domov Muj and Wacht am Rhein: Singing Loyalty and Disloyalty in Habsburg Bohemia During the First World War (December 2016) 
Paper given by Dr Tamara Scheer (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Historical Social Science/Institute for East European History, University of Vienna) 
 
Enmity or Empathy? Jacques Rivière’s L’allemand (January 2017) 
Paper given by Arabella Hobbs (University of Pennsylvania) 
 
The Fortress: A Case Study of Total War in The East, 1914-15 (February 2017) 
Paper given by Professor Alexander Watson (Goldsmith’s University)  
 
Ego-Documents and Official History: Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria’s Diary and the Battle for Memory, 1914-39 (February 2017) 
Art, Propaganda, and the First World War 
Paper given by Dr Jonathan Boff (University of Birmingham)   
 
Worcestershire’s Women: Local Studies and the Gender Politics of the Great War and its Legacy (March 2017) 
Paper given by Dr Maggie Andrews (University of Worcester)   
 
From Bandage Wallahs to Knights of the Red Cross (March 2017) 
The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War 
Talk: with Dr Jessica Meyer (Leeds) 
 
The First World War and the Avengers of 1870 (November 2017) 
Talk: with Dr Emma Login (Historic England) 
 
Relating to the Dead (November 2017) 
Seminar on 'Relating to the Dead: Mass Grave Excavations, DNA and the Construction of Memory at Fromelles' with Dr Layla Renshaw (Kingston University) 
 
Conflicting Memories (November 2017) 
Seminar on 'Conflicting Memories: From Remembrance Poppy to Worker Bee' with Dr Matthew Leonard (University of Bristol and Cirencester College) 
 
When The War is Over: Burying The War Dead In 1919 (January 2018) 
Seminar with Dr. Romain Fathi (Flinders University / Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po) 
 
The Health of Nation: Influenza and Nationhood in Australia at the end of the First World War (January 2018) 
Seminar with Hannah Mawdsley (Queen Mary University London / Imperial War Museum) 
 
The Role of Forensic Anthropology in Identifying the Missing (February 2018) 
Seminar with Dr. Nicholas Márquez-Grant (Cranfield Forensic Institute) 
 
Travelling to War: Journey, Distance and Encounter in the Experiences of Troops from New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies (February 2018) 
Seminar with Dr. Anna Maguire (King's College London) 
 
Patriotism and Social Order: Armed Associations in Habsburg Austria, 1900-1918 (March 2018) 
Seminar with Dr. Claire Morelon (University of Padova) 
 
Travelling to War: Journey, Distance and Encounter in the Experiences of Troops from New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies (April 2018) 
Speaker: Dr. Anna Maguire (King's College London) 
 
Undergraduate Researchers and the History of London at War (April 2018) 
Speaker: Dr. Dan Todman (Queen Mary University of London) 
 
The Nervous Flyer: Nerves, Flying and the First World War (May 2018) 
Speaker: Dr. Lynsey Shaw Cobden (Air Historical Branch RAF) 
 
Globalising and Localising the Great War (May 2018) 
Speaker: Dr. Joanne Stober (Canadian War Museum) 
 
A Space of Conflict? Commemorating the First World War at London's Imperial War Museum (May 2018) 
Speaker: Dr. James Wallis (University of Essex) 
 
Globalising and Localising the Great War: The view from the battlefields (May 2018) 
Speaker: Dr. Paola Filippucci (University of Cambridge, Anthropology & Archaeology) 
 
Civilians in ordeal: From local situations to globalised war (June 2018) 
Speaker: Prof Annette Becker (Paris-Nanterre) 
 
Making Celluloid War Memorials (June 2018) 
Making Celluloid War Memorials: The battle reconstruction films of British Instructional Films, 1919-1929 
Speaker: Prof Mark Connelly (University of Kent) 
 
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Children of the Great War (April 2015) 
Film screening and Q&A 
The film is based on memories and experiences of children and grandchildren of those who lived through the First World War.  The material was collected and collated by the reminiscence arts charity Age Exchange as part of their project ‘Children of the Great War’. The screening was preceded by a short presentation about the project and followed by a Q & A with the artists involved. 
 
How to Write the Great War? (May 2015) 
A conference on Francophone and Anglophone Poetics 
 
The Great War: Rethinking the Centenary (October 2015) 
Master class | lecture - followed by discussion. 
Speaker: Professor John Horne, Professor of Modern European History (Trinity College Dublin).  As visiting Professor at Balliol College, Professor Horne led a guided discussion on the current trends in historiography relating to the First World War. 
 
An Army Without a Face: The Ottoman Army and the First World War (October 2022) 
Lecture: Mesut Uyar, Associate Professor of Ottoman military history at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Specialising in late Ottoman and modern Turkish military history and war studies, his publications include “The Ottoman Defence Against the Anzac Landing 25 April 1915” (2015) and “A Military History of the Ottomans” (2009, co-authored with Edward Erickson). 
 
Geographies of Warfare and Territories of Belligerence in the Era of the First World War (November 2015) 
Master class | lecture - followed by discussion.  
Speaker: Associate Professor Pierre Purseigle (Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin and University of Warwick) 
 
Connecting Approaches on the First World War in the Wake of the Centenary (December 2015) 
One-day workshop held at the Maison française in Oxford (hosted by the University of Oxford and Paris Sorbonne) to facilitate discussion between doctoral students and early career researchers from Oxford and the Sorbonne (Paris 1) who work on the First Word War and to produce fresh perspectives on the conflict. 
 
Wharton in Wartime (February 2016) 
A roundtable discussion to mark the publication of Alice Kelly's critical edition of Edith Wharton's First World War reportage Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). 
Featuring: 
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford) 
Dr Shafquat Towheed (Open University) 
Dr Alice Kelly (TORCH, Oxford) 
 
End of a Paradigm? The Cultural History of the Great War (February 2016) 
Lecture:  Professor John Horne, emeritus Professor of Modern European History and Director of the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, and a member of the Executive Board of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne.  
 
The Geometry of Memory (April 2016) 
Discussion with Professor Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. 
 
Nineteen Fourteen and the Enigma of Casual History (May 2016) 
The Second Oliver Smithies Lecture with Professor John Horne. John Horne is emeritus Professor of Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin and Visiting Professor at Balliol College.   
 
The Indian Sepoy in Cultural History: Words, Images, Music (May 2016) 
A discussion with Dr Santanu Das, Reader in English Literature at King's College London.   
 
The Dynamics of War and Peace: Drama, Poetry, Music And Dance (May 2016) 
A multi-media performance combining theatre, dance, poetry, music, visual art and dialogue with the audience to bring to life the volatile dynamics of war and the potent potential for peace.   
Dr Rama Mani (Founder, Theatre of Transformation; Faculty member, Geneva Academy; Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford)  
Dr Annette Idler (Director of Studies, Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford, and Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, the Graduate Institute, Geneva) With participation of Valerio Benevento (dance) and art work by Tanisha Bhana. 
 
Silence(s) and the Great War (May 2016) 
A roundtable symposium brought together scholars from the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University to discuss methodological approaches to written sources on the First World War.  
 
Making Time Move: Temporal Structures and Visions of the Future in WWI Internment Camps (May 2016) 
A graduate seminar | Lecture -  with Dr Iris Rachamimov, Associated Professor at Tel Aviv University, teacher in modern history, and the Israeli Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College. 
 
Comparative History of the First World War: Current Challenges; Future Horizons (June 2016) 
Discussion with Dr Heather Jones, Associated Professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. 
 
66 Men of Grandpont (June 2016) 
A film screening of 66 Men of Grandpont 1914-1918: A Short Documentary Film by Simon Haynes and Liz Woolley. (A community history project commemorating the 66 men who are named on the First World War memorial in St Matthew's Church in Grandpont, South Oxford.) 
 
Commemorating the New Zealand Soldiers Buried at Botley Cemetery (October 2016) 
Event in the presence of the New Zealand High Commissioner His Excellency The Right Honourable Sir Lockwood Smith KNZM, accompanied by Brigadier Evan Williams, NZ Defence Advisor, New Zealand Defence Force. 
 
International Society for First World War Studies Conference (November 2016) 
The 9th Conference for International Society for First World War Studies.  Papers which addressed aspects of some of the following themes: 
  • communication and time (including methods and posthumous communication) 
  • the war’s effect upon conceptions of age groups, life cycles, and rites of passage 
  • processes of evolution, development, learning curves, and cycles of learning 
  • institutional measures to control time (such as differing calendars, curfews, time zone boundarychanges, and the introduction of Daylight Savings Time) 
  • war generations, e.g. ‘lost generations’ 
  • military coordination and precision 
11/11 (November 2016) 
An evening of music, poetry and film to commemorate the men from South Oxford who fought in the First World War. 
 
Oxford at War 1914-1918 Roadshow (November 2016) 
An online memorial to Oxford during World War I.  The roadshow was an opportunity to Share family memories and local history. 
 
A Weekend to Remember /The Men Who Went to War (November 2016) 
A weekend event to commemorate the Battle and honour some of the Oxford men who died fighting there.   
A concert and Commemorative Exhibition 
Film: The Battle of the Somme – made in 1916, with original score 
Talks: Dr Kate Tiller (Reader in English Local History at Kellogg College) – Who are we remembering? 
War memorials and local history 
Liz Wade – The Men of St Margaret’s 
Alison Bickmore – The Men of St Giles’ 
Liz Woolley – The Men of St Matthew’s, Grandpont 
Film: 66 Men of Grandpont 1914-18 – new documentary about this innovative community history project  
 
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The RAI Goes to the Movies: An Amercian First World War Centenary Series. A film series exploring what the American people were watching during and after the First World War. 
 
Shoulder Arms (February 2017) 
Film: 'Shoulder Arms' 
Introduced by Dr Alice Kelly 
 
The Big Parade (February 2017) 
Film: 'The Big Parade' (1925) 
Introduced by Dr Michael Hammond 
 
Wings (May 2017) 
Film: 'Wings' (1927, dir. William Wellman) 
Introduced by Jack Doyle 
 
Sergeant York (May 2017)  
Film: 'Sergeant York' (1941, dir. Howard Hawks) 
Introduced by Professor Adrian Gregory. 
 
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The Rothermere American Institute hosted 'The United States and World War One'. A series of special lectures to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War One in 1917. 
 
Deeds not Words (February 2017) 
American Social Justice Movements and World War One  
Professor Jennifer Keene (Chapman University) 
 
O Say Can You See? (February 2017) 
This lecture is on '"O Say Can You See"? Art, Propaganda, and the First World War' with Professor David Lubin (Wake Forest University) 
 
The Nye Commission and America's Entry into World War One (April 2017) 
Lecture with Professor Christopher Capozzola (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
 
America and the Treaty Of Versailles (May 2017) 
Lecture with Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford). 
 
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Music and Morale in the British Army, 1914-1918 (May 2017) 
Lecture with Dr Emma Hanna (University of Kent) 
 
Demonstration of Cabinet (May 2017) 
A demonstration of Cabinet, an Oxford Internet Institute project with Dr Kathryn Eccles and Jamie Cameron (Oxford Internet Institute). Producing First World War content for Cabinet. 
 
Diagnosis Psychopath? (May 2017) 
The Medicalization of Conscientious Objectors in Germany during the First World War 
Lecture with Dr Rebecca Bennette (Middlebury College)   
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Two sessions on women in Ireland during the First World War with
Dr Fionnuala Walsh (Trinity College Dublin) on 'Public money turned to disgraceful purposes’: the soldiers’ wife in wartime Ireland, 1914-1918' 
Professor Senia Paseta (University of Oxford) “New issues and old”: Women, War and Politics in Ireland, 1914-18 
 
Underperforming or Overachieving? The French Army in 1917 (May 2017) 
 
Women in Ireland During the First World War (June 2017) 
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Enemy Rule (June 2017) 
Lecture with Dr Sophie De Schaepdrijver (Penn State University) on 'Enemy Rule: seeing the First World War Through the Lens of Military Occupations'. 
 
The Wartime Hunt for Traitors and the Future of Austria-Hungary (June 2015 
Lecture with Professor Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton/All Soul’s) 
 
The First World War and the Americas (July 2017) 
As part of the First World War Centenary programme The National Archives hosted a conference on the Americas, which addressed the impact of the conflict across the length and breadth of the two continents. 
Programme 
Keynote lecture:  Prof Ian Beckett, University of Kent 
‘1917: Year of Decision’ 
Session 1: ‘Associated Powers’ 
Dr Sam Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University 
‘The Great War and the Great Republic: the American Experience of the First World War’ 
Dr Rory Miller, University of Liverpool 
‘War, Business and Uncertainty in South America: A Bumpy Ride on the Periphery’ 
Session 2: ‘Empire’ 
Dr Bonnie J. White, Memorial University of Newfoundland 
‘‘Sorrow, Gratitude, and Pride’: Newfoundland's Cultural Memory of the Great War’ 
Dr Kent Fedorowich, UWE Bristol 
‘‘The True North Strong and Free’? Canada's War at Home, 1914-1919’ 
Dr Richard Smith, Goldsmiths, University of London 
‘‘That our national and allied hopes be speedily realized’: West Indian war experiences and aspirations during 1917' 
 
The Changing Character of War Programme (July 2017) 
Speakers include: Dr John Peaty, Dr Neil Faulkner, Gp Capt John Alexander, Maj Dr Paul Knight and CCW Director, Dr Rob Johnson 
 
Apparitions at Fatima, 1917-2017: A Century After the “Miracle of the Sun” (October 2017) 
Event featured historical and scientific commentary on the apparitions, including discussions of current events in Portugal and the Vatican as well as the upcoming Hollywood film, Fatima, starring Harvey Keitel and Sonia Braga. 
Speakers included: 
  • Manus Henry, Associate Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford 
  • Patrick Houlihan, Research Fellow in History, University of Oxford 
 
How Many Beginnings? (October 2017) 
Seminar with Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & the University of Oxford) 
 
Know Your Enemy (October 2017) 
Seminar with Dr David Monger (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) 
 
100th Anniversary of Ordination of Constance Coltman (October 2017) 
A commemorative event on the 100th anniversary of the ordination of Constance Coltman at Mansfield and Somerville Colleges, Oxford, celebrating her life as the first English woman to be ordained as a minister.   
 
The International Humanitarian Network Behind the British Parliamentary Report on the Armenian Genocide (October 2017) 
Seminar given by Dr David Monger from University of Canterbury, New Zealand. 
 
Merciless Humanitarians (November 2017) 
A seminar on 'Merciless Humanitarians: Atrocity Propaganda, Liberalism, and the FWW in Britain and Australia' with Dr Emily Robertson 
 
Empires and Occupations (November 2017) 
The History of War seminar series on 'Empires and Occupations: The Global Dynamics of the Illiberal Wartime State During the First World War' with Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oxford) 
 
Conscription and its Malcontents in The First World War (November 2017) 
A conference on "Conscription and its Malcontents in the First World War". This will include academic panels on new research and roundtable discussions. 
 
War as Revolution, 1914-1923 (November 2017) 
The valedictory lecture as finale of Professor John Horne's (Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oxford) Leverhulme Visiting Professorship 
 
Anglo/Belgian Research Exchange (November 2017) 
A closed workshop 
 
Egypt in the First World War, 1911-1924 (February 2018) 
Symposium 
Speakers & discussants: Hussein Omar, Christopher Rose, Aaron Jakes, Marilyn Booth, Khaled Fahmy, Eugene Rogan 
 
Constructing Messages of War (March 2018) 
Symposium 
This afternoon symposium explored how messages about the First and Second World Wars are conveyed through print culture, material culture, and teaching. 
Speakers:  
Hanna Smyth (University of Oxford): Messages and the Missing: Battlefield Commemoration and the Construction of Identity. 
Dr Vincent Trott (Oxford Brookes/The Open University): The Divided Marketplace: Publishers and the First World War, 1919-1930. 
Sarah Wearne (author): Messages from the Grave. 
Dr Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes): Internationalist Messages of War: The League of Nations Union in the Interwar Years. 
 
Symposium: Constructing Messages of War (May 2018) 
This symposium explored how messages about the First and Second World Wars are conveyed through print culture, material culture, spiritualism and teaching. 
Speakers: 
David Nash (Oxford Brookes): The Birth of Strange England: Esoteric Worlds and Popular Voices after 1917 
Vincent Trott (Oxford Brookes/Open University): The Divided Marketplace: Publishers and the First World War, 1919-1930 
Sarah Wearne (author): Messages from the Grave 
Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes): Internationalist messages of war: The League of Nations Union in the interwar years 
 
Oxford: The War and the World, 1914-1919 (November 2018 - March 2019)) - toured to five venues. 
An exhibition to commemorate Oxford during the First World War.  While some citizens left Oxford and travelled to other countries during the First World War, others stayed behind and experienced the city’s increasingly international connections; individuals from across the UK and the world joined them here because of the conflict. All these people were involved in, and contributed to, the war in different ways, and twelve of them were commemorated in this exhibition. 
 
GLGW Conference 2019 (June 2018) 
Highlights: 
Keynote 1 – Prof. Margaret Macmillan, University of Oxford 
“Making Peace is Harder than Waging War—Georges Clemenceau” 
Panel 1 – First World War and Global Religions project 
Panel 2 – Hunger Draws the Map project 
Keynote 2 – Dr. Adrian Gregory, University of Oxford 
“The First World War as Millenarian Moment” 
Panel 3 – GLGW-affiliated postdocs, 2015-present 
Panel 4 – GLGW Graduate Students (2014 and prior cohorts) 
Keynote 3 – Prof. John Horne, Trinity College Dublin 
Panel 5 – GLGW Graduate Students (2015 cohort) 
Panel 6 – GLGW Graduate Students (2016 and subsequent cohorts) 
Panel 7 – Collaborators 
Panel 8 – Roundtable 
Keynote 4 – Prof. Sir Hew Strachan, University of St. Andrews 
“Peacemaking and civil-military relations 1918-1923" 
 
 
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