Remembering and Reimagining World War I
The St. Clare’s Seminar Series provides an opportunity for students to explore a stimulating range of issues and ideas linked together by a common theme. In its centenary, this Autumn we will be focusing on the First World War with a series of seminars at our Bardwell Campus on Tuesday afternoons; the schedule is as follows:
Tuesday 16 September
A Lost World: The Difficulty of Commemorating World War I
Dr Maurice Walsh, Kingston University, London
Tuesday 23 September
Highlights and Shadows: Exposing the Truth in War Photography
David Chaplin, St. Clare’s College, Oxford
Tuesday 30 September
Can There Be a Just War?
Dr Matthew Kirkpatrick, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Tuesday 7 October
J.R.R. Tolkien and the Great War: from the Middle Ages to Middle Earth
Paul Sinclair, St. Clare’s College, Oxford
Tuesday 14 October
‘No gift to set a statesman right’: The Real Power of WWI Poetry
Dr Edward Clarke, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford
Tuesday 28 October
Forgetting the First World War: Patriotism, Politics, and the Loss of Memory
Karen Heath, St. Anne’s College, Oxford
Tuesday 4 November
The Art of Remembering and Reimagining the Home Front
John Rolfe, St. Clare’s College, Oxford
Tuesday 11 November
The Role of the First World War in the Identity of Newfoundland
Victoria Staveley, St. Clare’s College, Oxford
Tea and coffee will be provided at each seminar, and there will be a wine reception to follow.