A Hundred Years of Bombing from Above
The conference takes place over three days. Please find a list of all confirmed events on this page.
Programme
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Opening Lecture
From 6:30 pm until 8:00 pm on Thursday 10th November, 2011
- Keynote Lecture: Bombing Savages: In Law, in Fact, in Fiction - Sven Lindqvist
Session one: Law, Violence, Legitimacy
From 10:00 am until 12:00 pm on Friday 11th November, 2011
- Creating a Cordon Sanitaire: U.S. Strategic Bombing and Civilians in Korea - Prof. Alexander B. Downes
- Kobe 1945, the Unnatural History of Restoration - Dr. Hiroki Ogasawara
Session two: Colonialism, Airpower and Race
From 1:00 pm until 3:00 pm on Friday 11th November, 2011
- The Day that Buenos Aires was bombed - Dr. Miguel Mellino
- ‘The Colonial Guernica’ – 8 February 1958: The Bombing of Sakiet as an International Turning Point in the Algerian War of Independence - Prof. Martin Evans
- Trust Your Senses?: Militarism and Multiculture - Prof. Les Back
Session three: Writing, Poetry and Peace Monuments
From 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm on Friday 11th November, 2011
- Sylvia Pankhurst, The Stone Bomb and Eric Benfield - Prof. Patrick Wright
- Virginia Woolf: 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid" - Prof. Michèle Barrett
- 'In a blitz you notice people's virtues': Louis MacNeice, Virginia Woolf, and the cultural response to bombing - Prof. Daniel Swift
Session four: Shock, Rubble, Clearance
From 10:00 am until 1:00 pm on Saturday 12th November, 2011
- Pyschoanalysis and the Blitz - Prof. Daniel Pick
- Bombers and Bombing in Britain's postcolonial melancholia - Prof. Paul Gilroy
- Bombed Out - Dr. Nirmal Puwar
Closing Lecture
From 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm on Saturday 12th November, 2011
- Closing Lecture: From a view to a kill: drones and late modern war - Prof. Derek Gregory
- Response - Eyal Weizman - Prof. Eyal Weizman