Many Faces of War Interdisciplinary Conference

9:15-10:30 a.m. – War and Peace

• “Performing War Dead: Performances of Immaterial Remains Repatriations during the Interwar Period" - Anna Rindfleisch, King’s 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. – 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. – Lunch

• Lunch

1:30-2:30 p.m. – Soldiers’ activities and disease

• American soldiers, Army policy, and venereal disease in World War Two- Jessica Luepke, University of North Texas
• Unit 731: Imperial Japan’s Facility of Rape for the sake of Research - Antony Sudol, University of London

2:45-4:45 p.m. – 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

9:15-10:30 a.m. – 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. – 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. – 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

• “Slow Violence:” Rethinking Warfare and Captivity in the American Civil War - Kalea McFaden, Texas Tech University
• “Servicing the Troops: Prostitutes as Vectors of Disease and Spies in the Revolutionary War” - Matthew Cerjak, University of Chicago

9:15-10:30 a.m. – Health concerns

• Malaria Outbreak during the War In Sri Lanka, 1991 to 2002: Public Health Interventions as a Catalyst for Peace? - KJuárez Moyrón Miguel Fernando, Secretaría de Salud de la Ciudad de México
• 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 – 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’s Directorate of History and Heritage, Canada
• “Krieg und Seuchen gehören zussamen”: The German Sixth Army and its Interactions with the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the First World War- Srijita Pal, University of Southern California