On February 13th 2014, the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies organizes a workshop on ‘War expectations’ at the NIAS in Wassenaar. This workshop will function as a first step in the establishing of an international network.
The workshop will lead to the formation of a NIOD based research project on ‘war expectations’, a multi-disciplined approach on the cultural dynamics behind war and violence in twentieth century Europe.
In the workshop, NIOD hopes to deepen the understanding of the dynamics of war expectations, and their effects on society and political decision making. Participants from various disciplines will shed a light on different questions, e.g. How do cultural notions on war come to the fore in a society and how do they take shape in various contexts?
The first part of the workshop will focus on the First World War, since it brought such an important shift in the thinking about war and the expectations of how the next one would be.
In the second part of the workshop participants discuss how the dynamics of war expectations evolved after the First World War. Author Arnon Grunberg concludes the second part and will speak about how the war myths that grew out of the Second World War still function today: mostly to disguise hard realities about war and human nature.
This workshop is by invitation only.
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NIOD / NIAS Workshop ‘War Expectations’
February 13th 2014, NIAS, Wassenaar
Program
10.00 – 10.15 Introduction by Ismee Tames
10.15 – 10.30 Ewoud Kieft – War enthusiasm in 1914
10.30 – 11.00 Mark Antliff – Anarchist Antimilitarism: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Violence in the art and life Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)
11.00 – 11.20 Wim Klinkert – War expectations and the military
11.20 – 11.50 Discussion
11.50 – 12.00 Coffee
12.00 – 12.20 Frans Ruiter – Paratexts of War Fiction
12.20 – 12.40 Wilbert Smulders – Secured Unsecurity: about the (im)possibility of the literary imagination of War Traumas
12.40 – 13.00 Discussion
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Jay Winter – Beyond glory: Writing war in the twentieth century
14.30 – 14.50 Hans Jaap Melissen -Title to be announced
14.50 – 15.10 Bob de Graaff – War without end
15.10 – 15.40 Discussion
15.40 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 – 16.30 Keynote speech by Arnon Grunberg – Tomorrow, the World!
16.30 – 17.00 Discussion
17.00 – 18.00 Drinks
Participants
1. Ismee Tames
2. Ewoud Kieft
3. Jay Winter
4. Mark Antliff
5. Arnon Grunberg
6. Frans Ruiter
7. Wilbert Smulders
8. Bob de Graaff
9. Wim Klinkert
10. Hans Jaap Melissen
11. Peter Romijn
12. Marjan Schwegman
13. Madelon de Keizer
14. Martijn Eickhoff
15. Hinke Piersma
16. Wil Hansen
17. Arnold Heumakers
18. Chrisje Brants
19. Kees Brants
20. Patricia Leighten
21. Maia Bijl
22. Joris van Bladel
23. Lotte Kaatee