21-23 May, 2015

The Arts & Humanities Research Institute at King’s, in conjunction with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, staged an international conference on the Cultural Legacies of World War I, held at King’s from 21-23 May 2015. 

The conference covered a wide range of aspects of how the First World War changed the world, such as its geopolitical aftermath (and its current repercussions in the Middle East); how people thought about future wars; the war’s impact on social history, the arts and popular cultures, and on science, technology, nursing and medicine. 

Report: At the ‘Aftermath’ conference at KCL on the Cultural Legacies of WW1 there were two panels devoted to FMF, with six papers by:

       Andrew Frayn
       Nur Karatas
       Andrea Rummell
       Krisztina Sárdi
       Suzanne Steele
       George Yeats

List of Other Speakers included: 

Dr Santanu Das, Department of English, King’s College London

Prof. David Edgerton, Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King’s College London

Dr Kate McLoughlin, University of Oxford 

Prof. Anne Marie Rafferty, Professor of Nursing Policy at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London 

Dr Eugene Rogan, Director, The Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford

Prof. Sir Simon Wessely, Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London

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