Columbia University will host a conference about the origins and impact of the First World War.
The conference will take place on the 17th-18th October 2013.
The keynote address will be made by Professor Dominic Lieven, University of Cambridge.
It is being organised by the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Balassi Institute: Hungarian Cultural Center New York, Flanders House New York, French Cultural Services in New York, Goethe Institute New York, and the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
Further Details
The conference will be held at:
Columbia University,
Room 1501 International Affairs Building,
420 West 118th St #1,
New York, NY 10027
To register to attend for Thursday 17th October, click here.
To register to attend for Friday 18th October, click here.
Agenda
Thursday 17th October
5:30pm:
Russia and the Origins of World War I: Time to Reconsider?
Introduced by: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia) and Jack Snyder (Columbia)
Keynote lecture: Dominic Lieven (Cambridge)
Friday 18th October
9:00am – 9:15am:
Welcome by Timothy Frye (Columbia) and Volker Berghahn (Columbia)
9:15am – 10:45am:
Panel I: The Origins of World War I – An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Chair: Alan Timberlake (Columbia)
Speakers: Jack S. Levy (Rutgers), The Role of Preventive Logic in German Decision-Making in 1914
Stig Foerster (Berne), The Great Dilemma. The German General Staff and the Prospect of a Long War
Volker Berghahn (Columbia), The Role of International Big Business in the July Crisis of 1914
10:45am – 11:15am:
Coffee Break
11:15- 12:45pm
Panel II: The Eastern Powers and the Origins of World War I
Chair: István Deák (Columbia)
Speakers: Guenter Kronenbitter (Augsburg), A Game of Hazard. Decision-Making in Vienna, June-July 1914
Peter Bihari (Budapest), Rationalization of the War in Hungarian Public Opinion
Jack Snyder (Columbia), Paradoxes of Russian Strategy in 1914
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Panel III: The Experience of Violence – An Interdisciplinary Dialogue I
Chair: Kimberly Marten (Barnard)
Speakers: Annette Becker (Paris), Violence against Invaded and Occupied Women on the Western and Eastern Front
Jay Winter (Yale), The Experience of Shell Shock in World War I and Its Legacies
Michael Matthews (US Military Academy, West Point), Soldier’s Heat, Shell Shock, Combat Fatigue, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Bio-Behavioral Disorder or Social Construction?
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Panel IV: The Experience of Violence – An Interdisciplinary Dialogue II
Chair: Tarik Amar (Columbia)
Speakers: Antoon Vrints (Gent), Beyond Victimization: Violence as a Manifestation of Domestic Tensions in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918
Ana Antic (London), Reading Total War from Psychiatric Patients Files
Jan Szkudlinski (Gdansk), Here Starts Half-Asia. German Experiences on the Eastern Front in 1914
5:30pm – 6:45pm
Panel V: International Law and Modern Warfare
Chair: Michael Doyle (Columbia)
Speakers: Isabel Hull (Cornell), International Law and the First World War
Kazimierz Lankosz (Krakow), World War I: Violations of the Laws of War, Postwar Developments and Lessons for Today
Source: Harriman Institute website