#  Arts & Humanities Research Council: "Conference: Beyond the Western Front in WWI" 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 24, 2015** 

 02:00PM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Adolphus Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room**  



 

 



 

Sponsors: [Arts and Humanities Research Council](http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/Home.aspx)**2:00 – 3:30 p.m. "Ideas and Books: Informational and Literary Warfare"**

Introduction: **Charles S. Maier** (Harvard University)  
 “Germany in the Ether: News and Propaganda around the World,”   
 **Heidi J.S. Tworek** (Harvard University)  
 “The Experimental Gas War on the Eastern Front in June 1915, as depicted in André Malraux’s Les Noyers de l’Altenburg,”  
 **Nicole T.N. Jordan** (University of Illinois at Chicago; Center for European Studies, Harvard University)  
 Commentator: **Thomas Weber** (University of Aberdeen; Center for European Studies, Harvard University)  
**3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break**

**4:00 – 5:30 p.m. "Travelers and Soldiers: Women and Men at War"**

Introduction: **Margaret Higonnet** (University of Connecticut)  
 “Indian Sepoys in German POW Camps, Europe, and Other Fronts,”  
 **Santanu Das** (King’s College, London)  
 “British Women of the Eastern Front: Travel Writers and Romantics?”  
 **Angela K. Smith** (Plymouth University)  
 Commentator: **Michelle Mann** (Brandeis University)Contacts**:** **Margaret Higonnet,** <margaret.higonnet@uconn.edu>; **Heidi Tworek**, <hevans@fas.harvard.edu>

 

 



 

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