Friday, October 27, 2017

2:00-4:45 p.m. Visit the new WWI exhibit: "WWI Beyond the Trenches: Stories from the Front Exhibit" (Wisconsin Veterans Museum)

5:00-6:00 p.m. Registration open & Reception (Overture Center for the Arts)

6:00-6:10 p.m. Introductory Remarks

6:10-7:45 p.m. Roundtable: "Woodrow Wilson in the World's Eyes" Featuring Sir Hew Strachan and Professors John Cooper, David McDonald & Bruno Cabanes

8:00-9:00 p.m. Film Preview: "Dawn of the Red Arrow"

Saturday, October 28, 2017
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast (Wisconsin Historical Society)

7:30-10:30 a.m. Registration open (Wisconsin Historical Society)

8:30-9:30 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Bruno Cabanes, "Rights, not Charity. France, the Great War and the Rights of War Victims" (Wisconsin Historical Society)

9:45-10:45 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Holly Case, "The Great War in the Age of Questions" (Wisconsin Historical Society)

11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Registration open (Pyle Center)

11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Panel Sessions I (Pyle Center)
Cultural Mobilization in the United States (Session I), Location: 209
Shifting Gender Norms in Wartime (Session I), Location: 213
Poland and the First World War (Session I), Location: 313
America Prepares for War (Session I), Location: 325
Wisconsin's Great War - I (Session I), Location: Pyle Auditorium
Conscription and Resistance (Session I), Location: 309

12:20-1:40 p.m. Lunch & Keynote Speaker, (Pyle Center)
Keynote Speaker: Michael Neiberg, "America Responds to the War in Europe, 1914-1917"

1:45-2:50 p.m. Panel Sessions II (Pyle Center)
Colonial Soldiers in a Global War (Session II), Location:209
World War I and the Environment (Session II), Location: 309
Wisconsin's Great War-II (Session II), Location: Pyle Auditorium
Enforcing Loyalty: World War I and Civil Liberties (Session II), Location: 313
A War of Firsts: Technology in WWI (Session II), Location: 325

2:55-4:00 p.m. Panel Sessions III (Pyle Center)
The Great War's Forgotten Front: the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire (Session III), Location: 313
Medicine and Healing in the Great War (Session II), Location: 213
Wisconsin's Great War-III (Session III), Location: Pyle Auditorium
The War's Contested Legacy (Session III), Location: 209
Germany's Contested Legacies (Session III), Location: 309

4:30-5:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Keene, "What did it all Mean? Americans and World War I" (Wisconsin Historical Society)
5:45-6:45 p.m. Reception, (Lobby & Reading Room ,Wisconsin Historical Society)