13th November 2013, Innovation Centre, Rennes Drive, University of Exeter 9.00 | Coffee and registration |
9.10-9:30 | Presentation of the project: 1914 FACES 2014 David Houston Jones |
9:30 – 10:30 | Speaker 1 Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birbeck) – ‘The Rhetoric and Representation of Facial Injury in WWI Britain’. Chair: David Houston Jones |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
11.00-12.00 | Speaker 2 Marjorie Gehrhardt (Exeter), ‘”Rebuilding Men”: Facially Injured Soldiers at The Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup’. Chair: Suzannah Biernoff |
12:00 – 1:00 | Speaker 3 Dr Sarah Bulmer (Exeter), ‘Injury Politics in Contemporary Britain: Rethinking the body and war’. Chair: Suzanne Steele |
1:00 – 2:00 | Lunch |
2:00-3:00 | Speaker 4 Dr Tim Rees (Exeter), The Hidden Face of War? ‘Deformity’ and the Public Gaze before the First World War’ Chair: Laura Rowe |
3:00-4.00 | Speaker 5 Dr Sophie Delaporte (UPJV, Amiens), ‘Portraits de gueules cassées’. Chair: Marjorie Gehrhardt |
4.00 – 4:30 | Coffee |
4:30- 5:30 | Speaker 6 Kerry Neale (Australian War Memorial), Faces from the ‘uttermost ends of the earth’. Chair: Tim Rees |
5:30 | Close |