Alternate spaces of the Great War

该项目旨在探索一些不太为人所知的伟大战争经验的领域，汇集了来自英国，欧洲和美国的一系列研讨会的学者调查不熟悉的方面和战争的空间。我们计划在各种各样的学者之间产生对话，他们都在研究大战的“备用空间”，而不是那些空间，如西部战线，这些空间一直在流行的想象中定义战争的文化和神话。该项目旨在将大战理解为第一次真实的国际战争;一场由帝国驱动的冲突，要求或使参与者能够调查新的领土并占据替代空间，以以前被忽视的方式推动社会和文化体验的界限。2014 - 2018年期间，将举行重要的第一次世界大战一百周年纪念活动。虽然知识界重新审视标志性的和熟悉的战争景观是很重要的，那些在过去一百年中为建立神话和记忆中的战争做出了最大贡献的景观，但同样重要的是，到2018年，我们所做的不仅仅是重述旧故事。关于这场战争还有许多其他的故事有待探讨，它们将成为本研究的重点。这些可能包括妇女、平民、更多样化的族裔群体和流离失所者的故事。这个项目关注的是推动战争的宏大叙事的边界，寻找战争的替代空间，以期在我们纪念停战之前呈现1914-1918年的新话语。尽管学术兴趣持续，但仍有许多未探索的战争空间;空间，声音和景观被推到边缘，从属于帮助塑造我们国际文化的更大叙事。在殖民地的“其他”空间的战争经历，跟随军队的许多护士旅行者的旅程，从1914年起成长起来的战争出版业，引导战争的声音，都是需要进一步探索的领域。虽然第一次世界大战呈现了最终的破碎世界，在随后的几十年里，对这场战争的理解创造了另一种国际社会。一百年过去了，该社区努力联合收割机，并发展对战争的共同记忆;无论这些记忆是关于胜利还是失败，是关于殖民统治者还是被殖民者的记忆，都将尽可能多的来自世界各地的学者聚集在一起，这个网络寻求通过在一个历史时刻共享记忆来建立和发展这个社区，当这种记忆处于文化社区的最前沿时，思维它将包括对战争遗产的审查，并将以多种方式传播辩论。该项目将围绕一系列三个专题讨论会展开，每个专题讨论会将讨论一个特定的主题。这些主题是开放的和跨学科的，但将促进机会连接不同的和交替的伟大战争的经验链。第一次研讨会的主题是“旅程”，第二次是“祈祷”，第三次是“声音”，开辟了在一系列学科中扩大网络的可能性;历史，文学研究，艺术史，性别研究，出版和书籍的历史。其目的是制作一个编辑的论文集，主要来自前两个研讨会和一个期刊的特刊，重点是对战争及其遗产的书的历史和遗产的观点。

The project aims to explore some of the less well known areas of a Great War experience, bringing together scholars from Britain, Europe and the United States for a series of symposia investigating unfamiliar aspects and spaces of the war. We plan to generate dialogure across a diverse range of scholars who are all working on 'Alternate Spaces' of the Great War, rather than those spaces, such as the Western Front, that have always defined the cultures and mythologies of the War in the popular imagination. The project aims to understand the Great War as the first real international war; a conflict driven by empires that required, or enabled participants to investigate new territories and occupy alternate spaces, pushing the boundaries of social and cultural experience in ways that have been previously overlooked. The period 2014 - 2018 will see a significant commemoration of the centenary of the First World War. While it is important for the intellectual community to revisit the iconic and familiar landscapes of war, those that have made the greatest contributions to the establishment of the War in myth and memory during the last hundred years, it is equally important that by 2018 we are doing more than just retelling the old stories. There are many other stories of the War waiting to be explored and they will form the focus of this study. These may include the stories of women, of civilians, of more diverse ethnic groups, of the displaced. This project is concerned with pushing the boundaries of the grand narratives of War, seeking out the alternate spaces of the War with a view to presenting new discourses of 1914-1918 before we commemorate the armistice. Despite continued scholarly interest, there remain many unexplored spaces of War; spaces, voices and landscapes that have been pushed to the margins, subordinated to the larger narratives that have helped to shape our international culture. The War experiences in the 'other' spaces of the colonies, the journeys of the many nurse-travelers who followed the troops, the industry of War-representation in publishing that grew up from 1914 onwards, channeling the voices of War, are all areas that cry out for further exploration.Although the First World War presented the ultimate fractured world, over the subsequent decades the quest to understand the War has created an alternate kind of international community. One hundred years on, that community strives to combine and develop the shared memories of the War; whether those memories are of victory or of defeat, or those of colonial rulers or of the colonised, bringing together scholars from as many parts of the world as possible, this network seeks to build on and develop that community through shared memory at a historical moment when such memory is at the forefront of cultural community thinking. It will include an examination of the Heritage of the War and will disseminate the debates in a number of ways. The project will be built around a series of three symposia, each of which will address a particular theme. These themes are open and inter-disciplinary but will facilitate the opportunity to connect varient and alternate strands of Great War experience. The theme for the first symposium will be 'journeys' and for the second 'landscapes', and the third will be 'voice', opening up the possibility of expanding the network over a range of disciplines; histories, literary studies, art history, gender studies, publishing and the history of the book. The intention is to produce an edited collection of essays drawn principally from the first two symposia and a special edition of a Journal to focus on the book history and heritage perspectives on the war and its legacy.