This conference played host to over a score of Network members who participated as discussants, presenters and chairs. It was a wonderful occasion for so many members to meet face to face, some for the first time, and to share their research relative to this academic ‘perspective’.
Members participated in over a dozen panels and these included a very important one on the definition of military welfare history. The panel also sought to better inform others within the academy about this ‘new’ field of scholarship.
Roundtable: ‘Military Welfare History: A State of the Field (or Subfield? Or Bridge between Fields? Or, What is it, Exactly?)’
Featuring:
Dr Paul Huddie, University College Dublin
Prof Jennifer Mittlestadt, Rutgers University
Dr Anndal Narayanan, Virginia Tech University
Nick Bailey, University of Leeds
Another was:
Panel: ‘Driving and Maintaining Military Morale’
Featuring:
Dr Paul Huddie, University College Dublin (Chair)
Nicholas Bailey, University of Leeds
‘Each officer attending the parade may feel satisfied that his former comrades are still animated by their old and invincible
spirit’: representing the morale of ex-servicemen in the British Corps of Commissionaires during the late Victorian period’
Mary Brazier, University of Wolverhampton
‘”Flying Stress”: How Psychologists and Psychiatrists supported the development of doctrine in the Royal Air Force prior to
and during the Second World War’
Abby Whitlock, Independent Scholar
‘The “Super-cultural USO” : Wartime Amenities, Morale, and American Identity at the National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C.’
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