Program

DETAILED PLAN

Week One

DAY ONE	date: 7 July
Morning Session	Morning: arrival of the participants, check -in 12.00 – 14.00 Registration, opening ceremony
Evening session	Time: 17.30-19.30 excursion to Porto
	20.00- Social dinner

DAY TWO	date: 8 July Women at war instructor(s) Prof. Ingrid Sharp, University of Leeds
Morning Session	time: 9.30 – 11.00 topic: Interactive lecture to introduce the topic and identify research questions.
Break	11.00-11.30
Morning Session	time: 11.30-13.00 format: discussion assignments: Text (Extracts): Olive Schreiner Women and Labour Chapter IV Women and War Ruddick, Sara 1980 Maternal Thinking: Feminist Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, (Summer, 1980), pp. 342-367
Lunch	13.00-14.00
Afternoon Session	Time: 14.00-15.30 topic: Women’s duty in wartime and their ‘responsibility’ for the war format: lecture assignments: Text: Ingrid Sharp (2007) ‘Blaming the Women: Women’s ‘Responsibility’ for the First World War’ . In: A.S. Fell and I.E. Sharp (eds.) The Women’s Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-1919, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.86-109. Questions: What is the effect of war on gender roles? Is there a correlation between gender, mothering or feminist consciousness and attitudes to war? In what ways did organised women respond to the war? How could a shared emphasis on gender difference based on maternalism lead to opposite reactions – fervent support for or wholehearted opposition to the war? Did women’s organisations abandon feminist goals during the war or did they use their wartime service to further women’s advancement? Was women’s emancipation furthered as a result of the war? Suggested reading: Grayzel, S. (1999) Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War. Chapel Hill, NC. Higonnet et al (eds) (1987) Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars New Haven; London: Yale University Press. Tylee, Claire (1990) The Great War and Women’s Consciousness Basingstoke Macmillan

DAY THREE	date: 9 July Men at war Prof. Ingrid Sharp, University of Leeds
Morning Session	time: 9.30 – 11.00 topic: Men at War: ‘hegemonic masculinities’ format: interactive lecture: assignments: text: Tosh, John (2004) ‘Hegemonic Masculinity and the History of Gender’ in Masculinities in Politics and War. Gendering Modern History
Break	11.00-11.30
Morning Session	time: 11.30-13.00 topic: Constructions of the soldier in the First World War format: lecture assignments: Joanna Bourke ‘The experience of killing’ in Bourne, J, Liddle, P and Whitehead, I (eds) The Great World War 1914-45 1. Lightning Strikes Twice London pp.293-309
Lunch	13.00-14.00
Afternoon Session	Time: 14.00-15.30 Format: Case study: Gender and war: alternative masculinities? assignments: Questions: What is the relationship between masculinity and war? How is martial masculinity constructed and reinforced? What alternative masculinities arise during wartime? What motivates soldiers to fight? How can wartime and post-war sexual violence against women be explained?

DAY FOUR	date: 10 July Representations of war Prof. Ingrid Sharp, University of Leeds
Morning Session	time: 9.30 – 11.00 topic: Gendered representations of war to identify the ways in which gender is used in mobilizing the nation for war and in cultural demobilisation and cultural memory after the war format: interactive lecture:
Break	11.00-11.30
Morning Session	time: 11.30-13.00 format: Discussion and group work assignments: Commemoration Wartime Propaganda Press and popular culture Visual arts Film Text: Claudia Siebrecht 2011 ‘Imagining the Absent Dead: Rituals of Bereavement and the Place of the War Dead in German Women’s Art during the First World War’ German History Vol. 29 No 2 pp. 203-223
Lunch	13.00-14.00
Afternoon Session	Time: 14.00-15.30 Format: Case study: Käthe Kollwitz and Otto Dix assignments: Text: Ingrid Sharp (2011) ‘Käthe Kollwitz’s Witness to War: Gender, Authority and Reception.’ Women in German Yearbook Vol 27 pp.87-107 Questions How is war represented and for what purposes? Who has the authority to speak about war? Whose experience is commemorated? How were women’s wartime experiences represented and remembered? How were men’s wartime experiences represented and remembered? What does the work of Otto Dix and Käthe Kollwitz tell us about the experience of war? Suggested reading: Dora Apel: "Heroes" and "Whores": The Politics of Gender in Weimar Antiwar Imagery The Art Bulletin, Vol. 79, No. 3. (Sep., 1997), pp. 366-384. McGreevy, Linda. 2003 Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great War. New York: Peter Lang. Jay Winter (1995) Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. Cambridge. Horne, J. (ed.) (2010) A Companion to World War I. Oxford.

DAY FIVE	date: 11 July The Great War and Its Legacies instructor(s) Nikolai Vukov Associate Professor, Ph.D. Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Morning Session	time: 9.30 – 11.00 topic: Introductory presentation on the main themes and issues covered by the course; general overview on the legacy of the Great War and on the national and gender policies in public commemorations
Break	11.00-11.30
Morning Session	time: 11.30-13.00 format: discussion assignments: Text: Gillis, J. R., “Memory and Identity: the History of a Relationship”. – In: Gillis, J. R., ed. Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994, 3-24.
Lunch	13.00-14.00
Afternoon Session	Time: 14.00-15.30 topic: Interactive lecture on mourning and memory after the Great War format: lecture assignments: Text (extract): Winter, J. M., Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. Questions: What are the major legacies of the Great War? How did the war influence the practices of memory and commemoration? What new forms in maintaining the memory of the dead evolve after the Great War? What are the grounds for viewing the Great War as enabling the development of “modern memory”? Suggested readings: Mosse, G., Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Sherman, D., The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Winter, J. M., E. Sivan (eds.), War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

DAY SIX

WEEKEND

date: 12 July

Excursion to Lisbon

DAY SEVEN

WEEKEND

date: 13 July

Excursion to Santiago de Compostela

WEEK TWO

DAY EIGHT	date: 14 July Memory, Monuments and Public Rituals after the Great War instructor(s) Nikolai Vukov Associate Professor, Ph.D. Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Morning Session	time: 9.30 – 11.00 topic: the Unknown Soldier and the Silence of Commemoration format: Interactive lecture:
Break	11.00-11.30
Morning Session	time: 11.30-13.00 format: discussion assignments: Texts: Inglis, K. S., “Entombing Unknown Soldiers: From London and Paris to Baghdad” – History and Memory, vol. 5, № 2, Fall/ Winter 1993, 7-31. Gregory, A., The Silence of Memory: Armistice Day, 1919-1946 (The Legacy of the Great War). Oxford: Berg, 1994.
Lunch	13.00-14.00
Afternoon Session	Time: 14.00-15.30 topic: Monuments and Memory in Interwar Europe format: Presentation and discussion: assignments: Text: Prost, A., “Monuments to the Dead,” In: Nora, P., L. Kritzman, (eds.), Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past. Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, 307-330. Questions: How was grief coped with after the war through commemorative practices? What was the role of the different mourning communities (veterans, widows, orphans, etc.) in post-war commemorations? How did the memory of the dead influence the identity of the living? What was the role of public commemorations to the Great war in shaping public rituals during the 20^th century? Suggested readings: Gillis, J. R., ed., Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994. Koselleck, R., “War Memorials: Identity Formations of the Survivors,” In: Practice of Conceptual ; History. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2002, 285-326. Mosse, G., “National Cemeteries and National Revival: The Cult of the Fallen Soldiers in Germany,” Journal of Contemporary History 14 (1979). Sherman, D., “Monuments, Mourning and Masculinity in France after World War I,” Gender and History 8 (1), 1996, 82–107;

DAY NINE	date: 15 July National and Gender Identities after the Great War instructor(s) Nikolai Vukov Associate Professor, Ph.D. Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Morning Session	time: 9.30 – 11.00 topic: National and Gendered Transcripts of War Memory format: Interactive lecture:
Break	11.00-11.30
Morning Session	time: 11.30-13.00 format: discussion assignments: Text: Bucur, M., “Edifices of the Past: War Memorials and Heroes in Twentieth Century Romania”. In: Todorova, M., ed., Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory. London: Hurst, 2004, 158-179.
Lunch	13.00-14.00
Afternoon Session	Time: 14.00-15.30 topic: The Legacy of the Great War format: Round-table discussion assignments: The discussion will approach the following topics: Cultural demobilization and remobilization; Post-war violence and reconciliation; Memorial landscapes and cultural practices of remembrance; Anniversaries and the ‘everlasting’ memory of the Great War Questions How were national and gender identities influenced by the war? What were the contestations between different groups on the legacies of the war? What was the role of women in public commemorations? How were post-war commemorations paralleled with violence of the post-war years? Suggested readings: Kantorowicz, E., The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997). Mosse, G., “Two World Wars and the Myth of the War Experience,” Journal of Contemporary History 21 (1986). Sharp, I., M, Stibbe, eds., Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, 1918–1923. Brill, Leiden, 2011.

DAY TEN	date: July 16, 2014 instructor: Nona Shakhnazaryan CISR, research fellow
Morning Session	time: 9.30 – 11.00
	topic: Between History and Memory: Network, Minorities and Rescue (A Case Study of the Ottoman Empire during World War I)
	instructor(s) Nona Shahnazarian
	format: Lecture
	Objective: this session will touch upon the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the onset of the 20^th century provided by a hundred years of genocide and ethnic cleansing in southeastern Europe and Anatolia.
	assignments: the students shall find some other historical parallels and prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break (last 15 minutes of the session)
Break	11.00 -11.30
Morning Session	11.30 – 13. 00
	Topic: Feedback on the alternative definitions of genocide, war crime, ethnic cleansing in particular and other lecture’s topic like individual memory and social trauma
	Format: Free discussion of the topics explored in the lecture
	Objective: During the session participants will have the opportunity to go deeper into theoretical framework of global historical issues that disturb people and countries in modern time. Participants are invited to put questions and to debate with the instructor and with each other the paradoxes and contradictions of the topic.
Lunch	Time: 13.00-14.00
Afternoon Session	14.00-15.30
	Topic: War, gender, patriarchy in comparative perspective
	Format: Lecture
	Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main topics of the aggravation of patriarchal values during the modern era wars even though the shift of gender roles is there.

DAY ELEVEN	date:17 July, 2014 instructor(s) Prof. Francisco Reimão Queiroga, Fernando Pessoa University
Morning Session	time: 9.00 – 10.30
	topic: The Portuguese participation in the First World War. Historical and social framework.
	format: Lecture
	Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main topics of the historical circumstances in which Portugal became involved in the First World War.
	assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break (last 15 minutes of the session)
Break	10.30 -11.00
Morning Session	11.00 – 12. 30
	Topic: Feedback on the lecture’s topic
	Format: Free discussion of the topic explored in the first session
	Objective: During the session participants will have the opportunity to put questions and to debate with the instructor and with each other the topic presented in the first part of the session.
Lunch	Time: 12.30-13.30
Afternoon Session	13.30-15.00
	Topic: The social impact of war: man who depart, women who wait.
	Format: Lecture
	Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main topics of the Portuguese social structure and gender roles within labour classes at the first few decades of the XXth century.

DAY TWELVE	date:18 July, 2014 instructor: Fatima Mariano – Researcher of the Institute of Contemporary History of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Morning Session	time: 9.30 – 11.00
	Topic: The Portuguese female organizations that supported the victims of war
	instructor(s) Fátima Mariano
	format: Lecture
	Objective: During this session participants will know how Portuguese women have mobilized do help not only the soldiers who went to war, but also their families.
	Assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break (last 15 minutes of the session)
Break	11.00 -11.30
Morning Session	11.30 – 13. 00
	Topic: Feedback on the lecture’s topic
	Format: Free discussion of the topic explored in the first session
	Objective: During the session participants will have the opportunity to put questions and to debate with the instructor and with each other the topic presented in the first part of the session.
Lunch	Time: 13.00-14.00
Afternoon Session	14.00-15.30
	Topic: War nurses: The first Portuguese women to incorporate the Army
	Format: Lecture
	Objective: During this session participants will contact with the main topics related to the training of the first Portuguese nurses who were sent to war front and how they became the first Portuguese women to incorporate the Army

DAY THIRTEEN	date: 19 July instructor(s) Prof. Olga Shnyrova, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo Center for Gender Studies
Morning Session	time: 9.30 – 11.00 topic: Feminism, suffrage and war in Russia
Break	11.00-11.30
Morning Session	time: 11.30-13.00 topic: Presentations of participants according to their research interests
Lunch	13.00-14.00
Afternoon Session	Time: 14.00-15.30 topic: Presentations of participants
Social Dinner	20.00-

DAY FOURTEEN	date: 20 July
Morning Session	time: 9.30 – 12.00 Final round table Commemoration of war in Europe: comparative analysis. Discussion of the concept of the collective monograph.
Break	12.00-12.30
Morning Session	time: 12.30-13.30 Closing ceremony