The First World War: Nursing programme announced

This year’s Women’s History Network Midlands Region Conference entitled ‘The First World War: Nursing’ will take place at the University of Worcester (City Campus) on Saturday, 21 November 2015, 10.30am – 4.00pm in CHG 009.

Provisional Conference Programme

10.30am               Registration and Coffee – Charles Hastings Building Reception

Keynote address (CHG 009):

11.00am               ‘Le Petit Paradis des Blessés: Nurses, Nursing and Internationalism on the Western Front (1915-1918)’ – Professor Christine E. Hallett, The University of Manchester

Remembering and Representing Edith Cavell (1865-1915) (CHG 009):

11.45am               ‘The Politics of Remembrance: The Commemoration of Edith Cavell in France and Belgium’ – Professor Alison S. Fell, University of Leeds

12.15pm               ‘Representations of Edith Cavell in Children’s Literature’ – Professor Jean Webb, University of Worcester

12.45pm               The Cavell Nurses’ Trust – Steven Moralee

1.00–2.15            Sandwich Lunch / Exhibition (Cavell Nurses’ Trust) – ‘The Life and Memory of Nurse Edith Cavell’ (The Boardroom/CHG012) / Tour of The Infirmary Medical Museum

2.15-4.00              Panel Discussions:        

Panel 1 – V.A.D. [Voluntary Aid Detachment] Nurses (CHG 009)

2.15pm                 ‘I should be about as jealous of a V.A.D. member as a captain of an Atlantic liner would be of a man who could paddle a canoe’: The Response of the British Red Cross Society to Criticisms of VAD Nurses – Dr Rosemary Wall, University of Hull

2.45pm                 ‘Dairymaids and Shop Girls, Mothers and Nuns: V.A.D.s in Southam, Warwickshire’ – Dr Val Brodie MBE, Independent Scholar

3.15pm                 ‘The Patricia Young V.A.D. Album: Service and the Red Cross Bureaucracy in World War I’ – Cathy Kawalek, Independent Scholar

Panel 2 – Nursing in Europe (CH 1003)

2.15pm                 ‘Duty, Pride, and Sacrifice: Themes in the Letters of American Nurses in World War One’ – Dr Kelley H. Pattison, Western Michigan University

2.45pm                 ‘Family and Performance in the Front: Reconstituting the Fantasy of the Family in German Front Hospitals’ – Samraghni Bonnerjee, Postgraduate Researcher, University of Sheffield

3.15pm                 ‘Two Extraordinary World War I Nurses: Georgiana Fyfe and Grace Charlotte Vulliamy’ – Dr Katherine Storr, Independent Scholar

Panel 3 – Trauma, Death and Therapy (CH 1008)

2.15pm                 ‘Nursing Soldiers with Psychological Trauma during the First World War’ – Dr Claire Chatterton, Open University

2.45pm                 ‘Commemorative Gestures: Nurses Writing Death in the Great War’ – Dr Alice Kelly, Postdoctoral Writing Fellow, University of Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

3.15pm                 ‘Spa Wars and New Frontiers: Nursing and Physical Therapy, 1914-1918’ – Dr Jane Adams, University of Warwick

 

Conference Fee: £15

Concessions [unwaged/retired/postgraduate students]: £7.50

University of Worcester and local School/College students: Free

For further details, please contact: Dr Wendy Toon

w.toon@worc.ac.uk or 01905-855305