Conference: Business As Usual?

Business As Usual?: Institutional Impact in the First World War

Wednesday, 2 March 2016 in the Senate Room, University of Glasgow. All welcome.

This day conference brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to examine the role of institutional involvement in an individual’s experience of the First World War. We seek to understand how overarching corporate entities with localised institutional identities impacted participation in the First World War and how the war changed or redefined these discrete communities.

Tickets £25. To register visit Eventbrite

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09.00-09.15 Registration and tea

09.15-09.30 Welcome by Tony Pollard (University of Glasgow)

09.30-11.05 4 papers and 15 minutes for combined questions [Communities/Schools Session]

• Deborah Butcher (University of Glasgow) Red, White, Blue and Orange: the impact of the First World War upon Orangewomen’s political and charitable activity and their institutional role
• Burcin Cakir (Glasgow Caledonian University) Mobilization and Paramilitary Organisations in the Ottoman Army: the Youth League of 1916
• Sean Brady (Trinity College Dublin) Mobilising Il Pennisi: A Sicilian Secondary School in the Era of the Great War, 1914-1922
• David Clarke (Stewart’s Melville College) Daniel Stewart’s College and the Great War: Never Unprepared

11.05-11.20 tea

11.20-12.30 3 papers and 10 minutes for combined questions [University Education Session]

• Susannah Waters and Michelle Kaye (Glasgow School of Art), “From the service of Venus to the worship of Mars”: the Glasgow School of Art during the First World War
• Kenneth Baxter (University of Dundee) ‘Dying they have fulfilled the best traditions of our land’: University College Dundee and its fallen
• Charlotte Methuen (University of Glasgow) Glasgow’s Faculty of Divinity in WWI

12.30-13.15 Lunch (not provided)

13.15-14.50 4 papers plus 15 minutes combined discussion [Industries Session]

• Euan Loarridge (University of Glasgow) A Lost Mining battalion? The 10th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the Mining Industry of Central Scotland
• Nicola Macrae (University of Glasgow) The Challenges of the Organ Building Profession during the First World War
• Mike French (University of Glasgow) Changes and continuities in white-collar work during World War I: employment, earnings and enlistment at J&P Coats’ offices
• Jim Tomlinson (University of Glasgow) Women in ‘juteopolis’ in World War One

14.50-15.05 tea

15.05-16.40 4 papers plus 15 minutes combined discussion [Benevolent Societies Session]

• John Williamson (University of Glasgow) Fighting on all fronts: the amalgamated Musicians Union during the First World War
• Stacey Clapperton (University of Glasgow) ‘Artists who wish to help other artists and artists who need to help themselves’: the role of the Artists’ General benevolent Institution in the First World War
• Vince Gillen (McLean Museum and Art Gallery) The Watt Institute, Greenock. A cultural institution of the Great War
• Tracey Berg Fulton (Carnegie Museum of Art) ‘The situation is not without its anxieties’: the Carnegie Institute in the First World War

16.40-17.00 Concluding remarks by Tony Pollard with general discussion and questions