20 May 2023, ‘Homecoming’ after War: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, University of Warwick
Owing to the theme of this conference, it was an unofficial meeting of a dozen MWHN members from both sides of the Atlantic. Papers were presented by then current and some soon-to-be members. Namely:
1. Dr Amy Carney (Pennsylvania State University) ‘Where is Home? The Experience of a German-Jew in the American Army’
2. Professor Alison Fell (University of Liverpool) ‘Female Combatants, Demobilisation and Post-War Memory Cultures’
3. Dr Michael Robinson (University of Liverpool) ‘The ‘Prematurely Aged Ex-Serviceman’ Debate of the 1930s: A Tri-National Case Study’
4. Nick Bailey (University of Leeds) ‘Military masculinity, disability and civilian transition within the Corps of Commissionaires in Victorian and Edwardian Britain’
5. Dr Robin Bates (University of Cambridge/University of Warwick) ‘Veterans in a New Field? Veterans’ Rights in the Post-Civil War United States, 1865-1907’
6. Rose Miyonga (University of Warwick) ‘We Can Never Go Back: Homecoming, Loss, and Claim-Making in post-Mau Mau Kenya’
7. Dr Elena Racheva (University of Oxford) ‘From Outsiders to Heroes: the Relations between War Veterans, the Russian State, and Society’
8. Dr Sofya Anisimova (University College Dublin) ‘Disabled Officers of the Russian Imperial Army in Soviet Russia and in exile, 1917-1985’
9. Dr Eamonn O’Keeffe (University of Cambridge) ‘No Common Man: Searching for Shadrack Byfield’
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