Приглашение на конференцию "The First World War at Sea: Conflict, culture and commemoration"

Е-мейл Оргкомитета: research@rmg.co.uk

Организаторы: National Maritime Museum

This conference will explore the First World War at sea through wide-ranging themes designed to provide a forum for interdisciplinary research and new perspectives on the subject. Focused on both the Royal Navy and the merchant marine, the conference will also place the experience of the maritime war within the historical context of the years preceding and following the conflict.

Social history:

·         The human experience of maritime conflict

·         Explorations of the war at sea from perspectives of class, rank, race, age, gender or sexuality

·         Explorations of the war at sea from imperial and global

Operational history:

·         The ‘undramatic’ duties of naval warfare: blockade, minelaying, reconnaissance, trade protection, power projection

·         The navy’s wartime roles around the globe

·         The wartime duties of the merchant marine

·         Technology and the war at sea

Institutional history:

·         The wartime training of naval officers and ratings

·         The impact of war on naval hierarchies and ideas of leadership

·         Institutional lessons learned, and the RN in the Second World War

·         The impact of the war on the merchant marine

Cultural history:

·         Public opinion and media coverage relating to the navy/merchant marine before, during and after the conflict

·         Cultural constructions of maritime heroism, and their relationship to pre-war touchstones, from Nelson to Scott

Memory and commemoration:

·         Remembering the war at sea: memorials, memoirs and material culture

·         Family history and the legacy of maritime war

·         Restoring the naval heroic: cinema, novels, pageants and museums

·         Themes, events and people that commemoration left unremembered

Веб-сайт конференции: http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/16096