Images of the Body - First World War and its Aftermath
This workshop, organised in cooperation with the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, aims at examining the centrality of the body in the narration, representation, experience and understanding of the First World War. It will take into account individual bodies in war, as they were compelled in the trenches, wounded, dispersed, exhausted, mutilated, or killed. As well, it will consider how those bodies came to symbolize the national community as a whole.
Therefore, the workshop approaches the topic by paying attention to both the war and the home front, to both wartime and post-war societies. The main idea is to involve historians, art historians and visual culture historians to reflect upon specific key-questions concerning the representation of bodies during and after the First World War.
Venue. Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, Via Aurelia Antica 391, 00165 Rom
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Programme.
Thursday, 9 June
10.30 Martin Baumeister (Director, DHI Rome) - Welcome
Martina Salvante (Rome) - Introduction
11.00 Panel I - The Male Body Revisited
Chair: Annette Becker (Paris)
Sarah Kinzel (Berlin): Expulsion from Paradise - Representations of the human body in early 20th century painting
Monica Cioli (Rome): From Man at War to Machine Man - The Evolution of the Body in the 1920s
12.15 Coffee Break
12.30 Flavia Marcello (Melbourne): Art, Architecture and the Body of the Soldier in Marcello Piacentini's Casa Madre dei Mutilati in Rome
13.15 Lunch Break
14.30 Panel II - Memorializing the Body
Chair: Martina Salvante (Rome)
Martin Baumeister (Rome): Filling the big void - mourning fallen soldiers and the thirst of representation
Paolo Nicoloso (Trieste): Memory Strategies - Ossuaries on the Eastern Italian Border
18.00 Keynote - Michael Diers (Berlin): Fragments. Politics and Aesthetics of the Body in Pieces
Friday, 10 June
10.00 Panel III - Wounded and Dead Bodies
Chair: Martin Baumeister (Rome)
Alessandro Faccioli (Padova): Landscapes of Death in the Italian WWI Cinema
Marjorie Gehrhardt (Reading): The Face of War - Repairing Gueules cassées, rebuilding society
11.30 Coffee Break
11.45 Panel IV - Bodies of War and their Representations
Chair: Michael Diers (Berlin)
Bernd Huppauf (New York/Berlin): Images between Ethics and Aesthetics - Mutilated Bodies after World War I
Annette Becker (Paris): To Photography, to camouflage, to draw - Images of a war of bodies, 1914-2014
Final Discussion
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Contact:
Monica Cioli
Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom