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Many Faces of War Interdisciplinary Conference

Upcoming Conference

War and Disease: The Many Faces of War VII

October 20-22, 2022
Hybrid at South 啵啵直播秀 State University, Brookings, SD

Schedule

Thursday, Oct. 20

9:15-10:30 a.m. 鈥 War and Peace
  • 鈥淧erforming War Dead: Performances of Immaterial Remains Repatriations during the Interwar Period" - Anna Rindfleisch, King鈥檚 College London
  • Prussia Envy and U.S. Army Peacetime Alienation: A Snapshot (1900-1917) - Alexander Reineke, Ruhr-University Bochum

 

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 鈥 Early Modern Europe
  • Medical Topography and Military Medicine in the French Mediterranean, 1760-1860 - Ben Goff, Florida State University
  • Experts in corruption? Two failed agents for sick and hurt seamen at Portsmouth (Britain) during the War of Austrian Succession. - Matthew Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan

 

Noon-1:30 p.m. 鈥 Lunch
  • Lunch

 

1:30-2:30 p.m. 鈥 Soldiers鈥 activities and disease
  • American soldiers, Army policy, and venereal disease in World War Two- Jessica Luepke, University of North Texas
  • Unit 731: Imperial Japan鈥檚 Facility of Rape for the sake of Research - Antony Sudol, University of London

 

2:45-4:45 p.m. 鈥 New Perspectives on Warfare in Ancient Greece
  • The Dogs of War?: Reevaluating Dogs in Greek Warfare- Jenna Rice, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  • War and Agriculture in Hellenistic Thessaly - Jake Morten, Carleton College
  • Catharsis and History in the (re)tellings of the Battle of Thermopylae - Jeffrey Rop, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Friday, Oct. 21

9:15-10:30 a.m. 鈥 Plagues and Pandemics
  • Thucydides' Narrative of the Plague of Athens: A map for the Peloponnesian War? - Jaime Gonzalez-Ocana, Brunswick School
  • Pandemics and the Army: Weighing the Risks- W. Sanders Marble, Senior Historian, U.S. Army Medical Department Center of History & Heritage

 

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 鈥 War at sea
  • The Role of Symbolic Capital in Battleship Procurement - Jordan Houchins
  • HENRY BREAULT: The Man, the Hero, & the Icon of the Enlisted Submarine Community- Ryan C. Walker, University of Portsmouth

 

1:30-3:15 p.m. 鈥 War in all its forms
  • Unfounded Optimism, Deliberate Decisions and Soldier Waste: The U.S. Army European Theater of Operations and Cold Weather Injuries in the Winter of 1944-45 - Paul Cook, US Army Center of Military History
  • The Politics of Disease: Biological Warfare Allegations in the Korean War- John L. Minney, Air Command and Staff College
  • Weather as an Offensive Weapon in Warfare: Operation POPEYE, 1967-1972- Kent Sieg, historian at the 557th Weather Wing, U.S. Air Force

 

3:30-4:45 p.m. - Early US warfare
  • 鈥淪low Violence:鈥 Rethinking Warfare and Captivity in the American Civil War - Kalea McFaden, Texas Tech University
  • 鈥淪ervicing the Troops: Prostitutes as Vectors of Disease and Spies in the Revolutionary War鈥 - Matthew Cerjak, University of Chicago

Saturday, Oct. 22

9:15-10:30 a.m. 鈥 Health concerns
  • Malaria Outbreak during the War In Sri Lanka, 1991 to 2002: Public Health Interventions as a Catalyst for Peace? - KJu谩rez Moyr贸n Miguel Fernando, Secretar铆a de Salud de la Ciudad de M茅xico
  • Narrative review of the state of art of penetrating neck trauma- W. Sanders Marble, Senior Historian, U.S. Army Medical Department Center of History & Heritage

 

10:45 a.m.- noon 鈥 1918 Influenza
  • The Invisible Enemy: The Canadian Army Medical Corps, Pandemic Influenza, and the Fight Against the Flu- Renee Davis, Historian of Military Heritage for the Department of National Defense鈥檚 Directorate of History and Heritage, Canada
  • 鈥淜rieg und Seuchen geh枚ren zussamen鈥: The German Sixth Army and its Interactions with the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the First World War- Srijita Pal, University of Southern California

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