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 20th 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 20th 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

 

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