Love, grief, hate and fear are among the emotions most immediately associated with the rhetoric, experience and memory of war. War is often lived through and remembered as a time of heightened emotional intensity during which patriotic fervour, the break-up of families, encounters with the enemy, loss of life, and extraordinary levels of violence engender a range of complex emotional responses.

This two-day conference seeks to explore the degree to which war impacted upon the emotional world of those who lived through times of conflict, and to consider how individuals in a range of different national contexts have responded to war from the medieval to the modern period.

Speakers:

Professor Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne

Dr Eamon Darcy, Trinity College Dublin

Dr Santanu Das, King’s College London

Professor Graham Dawson, University of Brighton

Professor Martin Francis, University of Cincinnati

Dr Nik Funke, University of Edinburgh

Professor Susan-Mary Grant, University of Newcastle

Professor Christa Hämmerle, University of Vienna

Dr Claire Langhamer, University of Sussex

Dr Lucy Noakes, University of Brighton

Dr Catriona Pennell, University of Exeter

Professor Judith Pollman, Leiden University

Dr Michael Richards, University of the West of England

Dr Penny Roberts, University of Warwick

Dr Lucy Robinson, University of Sussex

Professor Michael Roper, University of Essex

Dr Claudia Siebrecht, University of Sussex