MRMC 2015

(RE)DISCOVERING THE GREAT WAR
MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH OF MODERN CONFLICTS
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Day 1 - 22.5.2015 - Ljubljana
8:00 - 8:20
Registration and coffee
8:20 - 8:55
Introduction
8:55 - 9:20
Rupert Gietl
Conflict Archaeology of the First World War on the Carnic ridge
9:20 - 9:45
Allan Kilpatrick
Scotland at War – discovering the legacy of war
Wouter Gheyle, Timothy Saey,
Stephanie Verplaetse, Nicolas
The World War I conflict landscape in Belgium - A confrontation
9:45 - 10:10
Note, Jean Bourgeois,
between past and present through non-invasive survey techniques
Marc Van Meirvenne, Veerle Van
Eetvelde, Birger Stichelbaut
Timothy Saey, Wouter Gheyle,
Birger Stichelbaut, Jean
A non-invasive geophysical approach to characterize
10:10 - 10:35 Bourgeois, Stephanie Verplaetse,
World War I battlefields
Veerle Van Eetvelde, Nicolas
Note, Marc Van Meirvenne
Coffee and poster section
10:35 - 11:05
11:05 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:55
11:55 - 12:20
Matjaž Ravbar
Mateja Breg Valjavec, Daniela
Ribeiro, Matija Zorn
John B Winterburn
Lunch
12:20 - 13:20
13:20 - 13:45
Uroš Košir
13:45 - 14:10
Marko Štepec
14:10 - 14:35
Verena Perko
14:35 - 15:00
Jože Hudales, Boštjan Kravanja
Legacies of the Soča Front - From Garbage to Heritage
(1915 - 2015)
The heritage of the Soča/Isonzo front and the collective memory
Contemporary museological approaches to the interpretation of war
themes: heroes and little people
Heritage of the First World War:
Representations and Reinterpretations
Coffee and poster section
15:00 - 15:15
15:15 - 15:45
16:00
Aerial photography in Great War - Development in
Austro-Hungarian Air Force
Applicability of historical aerial photographs in landscape change
studies on Isonzo Front
Re-discovery Through Words, Pictures and Landscape
Nicholas Saunders
summary and discussion
Departure to Goriški museum and Kobarid
Day 2 - 23.5.2015 - Kobarid
8:00 - 8:20
8:20 - 8:40
8:40 - 9:05
Maria Rosaria Vitale
9:05 - 9:30
Paul S Ell
9:30 - 9:55
William Blair
10:25 - 10:50
Drago Zalar
10:50 - 11:15
Branko Šuštar
11:15 - 11:40
Žiga Koncilija
12:05 - 12.30
Dimitrij Mlekuž, Uroš Košir,
Matija Črešnar
Rémi De Matos-Machado,
François Bétard, Clélia Bilodeau,
Stéphanie Jacquemot,
Jean-Paul Amat
13:55 - 14:20
Military diary of private Anton Platan
Teachers during World War One: during lessons, at the front, in
captivity and in exile. Slovenian experience in the south of the
Habsburg monarchy 1914-1918
The impact of War on Women's Criminality - Court Records of the
Provincial Court in Ljubljana (1914-1916)
Mountain war – Archaeological approaches towards understanding
conflict landscapes of Rombon (Upper Soča Valley)
Great War archaeo-geomorphology: Exploring the links between
conflict-induced landforms and archaeological records in the battlefield
of Verdun (Northeastern France)
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 13:55
Myth and reality in the reconstruction of Reims after the Great War
Living Legacies 1914-18: From Past Conflict to Shared Future
Myth, Memory and Material Culture: The impact and legacy of the
First World War in Northern Ireland
Coffee and poster section
9:55 - 10:25
11:40 - 12:05
Registration and coffee
Introduction
Jan Petřík, Jakub Těsnohlídek, Jiří
Zubalík, Richard Bíško, Jiří
Kadlec, Martin Vojtas, Martin
Drobňák, Petr Vavrečka, Michal
Hlavica, Peter Tajkov
Anna Zalewska, Michał
Jakubczak, Bartłomiej Klęczar
Archaeological survey of Austro-Hungarian field fortification
remnants located in Eastern Carpathians in Slovakia
The archaeological revival of memory of the Great War in
central Poland
Eastern European GAS-SCAPE on Rawka and Bzura Rivers –
from the Perspective of Archaeology and Memory Studies
(1915-2015)
14:20 - 14:45
Anna Zalewska
14:45 - 15:10
Michał Czarnik, Kamil Karski,
Dominik Kurek, Katarzyna
Skowron, Tomasz Tokarczyk
Great War centenary – what is left – an archaeological perspective.
Exhumations of the I world war human remains in Zdziary (Poland)
15:10 - 15:35
Joanna Rogóż
The remains of soldiers from the First World War exhumed in
Zdziary (south-eastern Poland) − an anthropological perspective
Coffee and poster section
15:35 - 15:55
15:55 – 17:00
19:00
Nicholas Saunders
summary and discussion
Walk to Kobarid Ossuary
Day 3 - 24.5.2015 - Kobarid
8:30 - 15:00
Field Trip
Loče – Austro-Hungarian cemetery
Tolmin – German charnel house
Mengore - Austro-Hungarian first line of defence at the Tolmin bridgehead
(programme under construction)
15:30
Departure to Ljubljana