1919 in Global Context Workshop
As a follow-on event to Dr Hassett's book launch in Marsh's Library on 21st November, UCD History is delighted to announce that it will be holding a workshop entitled 1919 in Global Context on Friday 22nd November at Marsh's Library, Dublin 8 from 10:30am to 5pm.
To register please follow this link to Eventbrite: (opens in a new window)bit.ly/1919Global
Workshop Schedule
10:00-10:30
Conference registration and coffee
10:30-10:40
Welcome and introduction
Hussein Omar & Jennifer Wellington
10:40-12:00
From war to peace?
Jennifer Wellington, ‘Remobilising for peace in the British Dominions’
Susan Grayzel, ‘Women and violence in the postwar moment’
Mark Jones, ‘Making the atrocities go away: foundation violence and the Weimar Republic’
Chair: John Horne
12:00-12:15 - break
12:15-13:15
Reordering the world: radical perspectives on the new world order
Hussein Omar, ‘Conscript and Sacrifice: the political theology of 1919’
Sarah Dunstan, ‘“Nationalists of Wilsonian Kind”: State Sovereignty, International Law and the Disenchantment of Self-Determination.’
Chair: Robert Gerwarth
13:15-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:15
Global revolt and the search for solidarity
Stephan Fender, ‘Radical Labour Politics in the Mexican Revolution’
Conor Mulvagh, ‘Establishing legitimacy at home and abroad: Sinn Féin and the Irish counter-state in 1919'
Dónal Hassett, ‘Strikes, Socialists and Settlers: The Limits of Class Politics in Colonial Algeria’s Postwar Moment’
Chair: Jennifer Keating
15:15-15:30 – Coffee
15:30-16:45
Faith, culture, and revolution: ideas in flux
Adrian Gregory, ‘Religious ideas in 1919’
Elisabeth Forster, ‘1919 – the year that changed China’
Jenny Bond, ‘“Our Responsibility”: Missionary school girls and the May Fourth Movement in Shanghai, 1917-1929’
Chair: Fionnuala Walsh
16:45-17:00
Closing remarks
Jennifer Wellington
