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Péronne | Verdun
The "Face" of First World War Battlefields and Battles
The centenary in 2016 of the two iconic battles of the First World War – Verdun and the Somme – leads us to reconsider battles and battlefields in the historiography of the First World War. Since John Keegan’s pioneering Face of Battle (1976), generations of historians have expanded our understanding of the experience of combat, as well as our knowledge of the literary and artistic representations of the battlefield. The way we think about the legacy of battles in the memory of the First World War around the world, too, has changed. Our week in Verdun and Péronne will not only give us time to reflect on the current state of research on the battles of the First World War and discover the most recent advancements in battlefield archeology and environmental history of warfare, but also confront these readings with on-the-ground visits to the sites studied.
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Saint-Remy-la-Calonne
Conference, symposium - History
The faces of the Great War
Ce colloque international, le second organisé au cœur de cette ligne de front, poursuit le projet initial de patrimonialisation et de valorisation d’un site emblématique où les traces de vie et de mort des combattants stigmatisant encore le paysage meurtri par le sang et les armes, sont toujours livrées à l’épreuve du temps et montrent, s’il en est, les signes de leur inexorable disparition. Ligne de front, paysage meurtri d’une époque où tout bascule dans l’éphémère, ce colloque aura pour objectif de focaliser l’attention sur les visages de la première guerre mondiale, de la trace des combats aux meurtrissures des corps, tout ce qui fait mémoire par-delà les strates du temps et des abîmes de l’oubli.
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