3rd Global Conference (2004)

Monday 18th October – Wednesday 20th October 2004
Salzburg, Austria

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.1.4)

Monday 18th October

From 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher

14.15
Session 1: Generals, Civil Society & Military Culture
Chair: Rob Fisher

Andrew Wilson
“Inventing the General”: A Re-appraisal of the Sunzi bingfa

Mark Perry
The New Minutemen: Civil Society and the Evolution of Military Culture

15.45
Coffee

16:15
Session 2: Business, Economics and War
Chair: Asa Kasher

Monika L Riez
Budapest and the Great War: A Brief Overview

Albrecht Fritzsche
The Similarities of Business and War and the Idea of Being the Best

17.30
Notices/Announcements
Wine Reception

Tuesday 19th October
09.30
Session 3: Children, Humour and War
Chair: Bill Doll

Dorothea Flothow
‘Train Yourselves to Defend Your Country’: Children’s Novels in the First World War

John Horn
Through Comic Eyes: Punch, the British Army, and Pictorial Humour on the Western Front 1914-1918

10.45
Coffee

11.15
Session 4: Writing, Rumour and News
Chair: Andrew Wilson

Tammy M. Proctor
“Gone Home”: Boy Scouting and the Writing/Re-Writing of the War in Britain, 1914-1920

Martha Hanna
What did the Home front Know? Rumor and Real News in Rural France, 1914-1918

12.30
Lunch

14.30
Session 5: Future Warfare and the Rise of Cyberwar
Chair: Agnes Maillot

Bill Doll
Future Warfare Operations

Markku Jokisipilä
From Traditional Warfare to Cyberwar: Information War and Dissemination of Propaganda on the Internet in the Light of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

15.45
Coffee

16.15
Session 6: Position Paper/Case Study

Asa Kasher
Comradeship Facing Death

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 20th October
09.30
Session 7: Identity, Memory and Conflict Resolution
Chair: Dorothea Flothow

Brigitte Le Juez
War Survivors’ Fractured Identities in Hiroshima mon Amour

Agnes Maillot
Memory and conflict resolution in Northern Ireland

10.45
Coffee

11.15
Session 8: Political Modernity and Public Consciousness
Chair: Monika Riez

Sinkwan Cheng
Terrorism in the Context of Political Philosophy

Alexandre Fedorovski
Dehumanization of Public Consciousness as One of the Causes of Modern American Wars (Results of the Sociological Analysis)

12.30
Development Meeting
Rob Fisher

13.00
Lunch and Conference Close