Thursday, 12 November 1998 - Conference Sessions

Location - (unless otherwise noted)
Arts and Administration Building
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Memorial University of Newfoundland, Elizabeth Avenue
Time Room A-1043 Room A-1046 Misc. Locations
8:30 a.m. -
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Registration Desk and Displays open
(Arts Atrium)
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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Official Opening:
Reid Theatre, Arts Building
Dr. David Facey-Crowther, Conference Chair
Dr. Arthur May, President, MUN


Keynote Address

Professor Paul Fussell,
"The Fortunate Fall of the Newfoundland Regiment"
10:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
Break
10:10 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. The Politics of War
Patricia O'Brien
Gale Warren
Preparing for War
Bernard Ransom
Nelson Sherren
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11:10 a.m. - 11: 30 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. War and Society
Terry Bishop- Stirling
Robert Hong
Alternate Perspectives
Roger Sarty
Gerhard Bassler
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12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
A-1043: Stuart Pierson, History Dept. MUN "War and Film"
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Women At War
Mary Philpott
Margot Duley
Location is Everything
Louise Dawe
Edward Hollett
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3:00 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Break
3:10 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. War and Religion
Larry Dohey
Jason Churchill
The St.John's Homefront
Paul O'Neill
Wendell Head
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4:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:30m. - 5:30 p.m. The Sounds of War
Duglas Dunsmore -
Anita Best
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Friday, 13 November 1998 - Conference Sessions

Location - (unless otherwise noted)
Arts and Administration Building
,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Elizabeth Avenue
Time Room A-1043 Room A-1046 Misc. Locations
8:30 a.m. -
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Registration Desk and Displays open
(Arts Atrium)
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Keynote Address
Writing about War
David Macfarlane and Kevin Major
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10:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
Break
10:10 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. The Cost of War
John FitzGerald
David Parsons
The Literary Legacy
Elizabeth Miller
Joan Ritcey
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11:10 a.m. - 11: 30 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Monuments for the Living
Bert Riggs
Malcolm MacLeod
The Aftermath
Dean Oliver
Daniel Mackenzie
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12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
A-1043: Presentation Hollingshurst Film Beaumont Hamel
Arts and Culture Centre Gallery:(1:00p.m.) - Laura Brandon Lecture on Maurice Cullen *
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. How We Remember: The Imperial Experience
David Facey-Crowther
Marie Wood
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3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Reid Theatre, Arts Building
Department of Veterans Affairs
Hon.Frederick Mifflin
- David Panton, Andy Powter, Arlene King
Beaumont Hamel Presentation

*Laura Brandon is Curator of War Art at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. Her illustrated lecture will discuss the programme known as the Canadian War Memorials and the contribution made to that collection by Newfoundland born artist Maurice Cullen. Although born in Newfoundland, Cullen was one of the first artists sent from Canada to the Western Front. The Canadian War Museum has thrity-three paintings from Cullen.

The public is also invited to view a film narrated by Newfoundland's Gordon Pinsent, Canvas of Conflict, Art of the Great War that features art from the Canadian War Museum's collection.

For further information contact Caroline Stone at the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador by phone:(709) 737-2427; fax: (709) 737-2007 or e-mail: cstone@morgan.ucs.mun.ca


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