Researchers at CMNH regularly give lectures and seminar papers, talks and other kinds of presentation, often by invitation, to a wide range of audiences at academic gatherings and other public events.
2017
Dawson, Graham. Keynote speaker, title tbc, at the “Northern Ireland: Memory, Commemoration and Public Symbolism” seminar series supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, University of Ulster, 29-30 June 2017, forthcoming.
Dawson, Graham. Invited speaker, “The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, Engagements, Legacies and Memories”, at the Centre for Irish Studies seminar series, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 28 March 2017.
Dawson, Graham. Invited workshop leader, with Mark Hackett, “Workshop 1: Memories and Mapping” and “Workshop 2: Current Maps and Movements”, as part of the Lanark Way Community History project, organised by Falls Community Council (with Impact Training, Shankill Area Social History, Clonard Neighbourhood Development Project, EPIC, Forthspring and Shankill Women’s Centre) supported by Belfast City Council, at Impact Training, Lanark Way, Belfast, 22 February and 1 March 2017.
Dawson, Graham. Invited speaker, “Memory, the Afterlife of Emotion, and ‘Post-conflict’ Temporalities in Conflict Transformation after the Irish Troubles”, at the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories seminar series, 15 February 2017.
Dawson, Graham. Invited speaker, “Lanark Way: Memories, Maps and Movements”, public talk with Mark Hackett as part of the Lanark Way Community History project, organised by Falls Community Council (with Impact Training, Shankill Area Social History, Clonard Neighbourhood Development Project, EPIC, Forthspring and Shankill Women’s Centre) supported by Belfast City Council, at Impact Training, Lanark Way, Belfast, 8 February 2017.
Dawson, Graham, with Jo Dover and Stephen Hopkins, “Book Launch: The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, Engagements, Legacies and Memories (eds Dawson, Dover and Hopkins, Manchester University Press, 2017)”, at University of Notre Dame London, 26 January 2017.
Dawson, Graham, with Jo Dover and Stephen Hopkins, “Book Launch: The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, Engagements, Legacies and Memories (eds Dawson, Dover and Hopkins, Manchester University Press, 2017)”, sponsored by Healing Through Remembering and INCORE, at York Street campus, University of Ulster, 19 January 2017.
Dawson, Graham. Invited speaker, “Memory, the Afterlife of Emotion, and ‘Post-conflict’ Temporalities in Conflict Transformation after the Irish Troubles”, at ‘Emotions and the Moral Grammar of Transitional Justice’ inter-disciplinary workshop, University of Warwick, 25 November 2016.
Dawson, Graham. Keynote speaker, “Complex Temporalities of Commemoration”, at the ‘Commemoration after 2016’ conference, All-Ireland Commemoration Network, Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland, 3 November 2016.
Dawson, Graham. “Contesting Britain’s Irish War: Activist Histories, the Politics of Memory, and Anti-imperialist Critique 1969-Present”, at ‘Contesting Britain at War’, work-in-progress workshop organised by the Understanding Conflict research cluster, University of Brighton, 24 June 2016.
Dawson, Graham. “Memory, the ‘Post-conflict’ Politics of Time, and Temporal Dynamics of Emotion after the Irish Troubles”, at the Critical Studies Research Group work-in-progress seminar, University of Brighton, 31 May 2016.
Dawson, Graham. Invited speaker, “Introductory Presentation to screening of the film Cal” followed by post-screening discussion, to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, a City Reads event organised by Collected Works CIC, the Nightingale Room, Grand Central Pub, Brighton, 24 April 2016.
Noakes, Lucy. July 2017: Keynote Lecture: ‘Gender, Family Histories, and the Emotional Legacies of Total War’, Mass-Observation 80th Anniversary Conference, University of Sussex.
Noakes, Lucy. June 2017: Conference paper. Motherhood and the Gendered Politics of Wartime Grief, Berks Conference of Women Historians, New York Hofstra University.
Noakes, Lucy. May 2017: Public Lecture: The First World War and the British Way of Death. For Then, For Now, For Ever. One Hundred Years of the CWGC, Brookwood Military Cemetery,
Noakes, Lucy. May 2017: Public lecture. The British People and Sheltering in the Second World War, The Bombing of Barcelona and London. Memories of a Shared History. Public Seminar, Imperial War Museum London
Noakes, Lucy. February 2017, Research Seminar: Towards an Emotional Economy of Grief in Second World War Britain’. Modern History Seminar Series, University of Oxford, UK
Noakes, Lucy. January 2017: Keynote Lecture: ‘Couldn’t Have Been A Nicer Morning For It’: Gendering Remembrance in 1930s Britain’, Gendering Peace in Europe, 1918-1946 Conference, University of Sheffield.
Madden, Deborah. June 2017. Keynote Lecture ‘Sacred Geographies and Empire-Building: Perspectives on Gender, Temporality and Religion in the Life Writings of Elizabeth Bowen Thompson (1812-1869)' for CLHLWR and CMNH PG Conference Life History and Life Writing Research: Critical and Creative Approaches, University of Sussex.
2016
Graham Dawson, “Contesting Britain’s Irish War: Activist Histories, the Politics of Memory, and Anti-imperialist Critique 1969-Present”, at ‘Contesting Britain at War’, work-in-progress workshop organised by the Understanding Conflict research cluster, University of Brighton, 24 June 2016.
Noakes, Lucy. November 2016,: Conference paper. War without End. Living with Grief in 1940s Britain, North American Conference of British Studies, Washington DC.
Noakes, Lucy. January 2016: Research Seminar. ‘Emotional Communities in the Second World War: Death, Grief and Masculinity in the British Armed Services’, University of Edinburgh Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict, invited speaker.
Carpenter-Latiri, Dora. June 2016, University of Exeter, Crea(c)tives Women network: ‘Tunisian Women of the Book’
Carpenter-Latiri, Dora. January 2016, University of Manchester, CASAW: ‘Tunisian Women of the Book’ (invited presentation and exhibition)
Abigail Wincott, public talk, 'The rise and rise of the heritage vegetable', Nerd Night, Patterns Night Club, Brighton, June 2016.
Ian Cantoni, “Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes: a multidirectional, palimpsestic site of memory”, Negotiating Complex Temporalities in ‘Post–conflict’ Spaces: France, Cuba, Chile panel ,‘Spatiality and Temporality’ International Symposium organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, As-Bud Conference Centre, Warsaw, Poland, 22 April 2016.
Thomas Carter, “Tempus Interruptus? Everyday Life, Urban Spatiality and Nonlinear Time in Revolutionary Society”, Negotiating Complex Temporalities in ‘Post–conflict’ Spaces: France, Cuba, Chile panel, ‘Spatiality and Temporality’ International Symposium organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, As-Bud Conference Centre, Warsaw, Poland, 22 April 2016.
Struan Gray,”Cartographies of Pain: Spatializing Injustice in Chilean Film from the Early Democratic Transition”, Negotiating Complex Temporalities in ‘Post–conflict’ Spaces: France, Cuba, Chile panel, ‘Spatiality and Temporality’ International Symposium organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, As-Bud Conference Centre, Warsaw, Poland, 22 April 2016.
Kate Newby, “Time, Memory and the Troubles: Childhood conflict experience and trans-generational remembering in the space of contemporary Belfast”, Negotiating Complex Temporalities in ‘Post–conflict’ Spaces Northern Ireland panel, ‘Spatiality and Temporality’ International Symposium organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, As-Bud Conference Centre, Warsaw, Poland, 22 April 2016.
Garikoitz Gomez Alfaro, “The spatial politics of time in post-conflict Derry/Londonderry (N.Ireland). Notes on memory, affect and materiality”, Negotiating Complex Temporalities in ‘Post–conflict’ Spaces Northern Ireland panel, ‘Spatiality and Temporality’ International Symposium organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, As-Bud Conference Centre, Warsaw, Poland, 22 April 2016.
Graham Dawson, “Sites of Memory, Spaces of Fear and the Culture of 'Historical Reconciliation' in 'Post-Conflict' Belfast”, Negotiating Complex Temporalities in ‘Post–conflict’ Spaces: Northern Ireland panel, ‘Spatiality and Temporality’ International Symposium organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, As-Bud Conference Centre, Warsaw, Poland, 22 April 2016.
Graham Dawson, invited speaker, “Memory, the Afterlife of Emotion, and ‘Post-conflict’ Temporalities in Conflict Transformation after the Irish Troubles”, Modern History Research Centre, University of Winchester, 14 January 2016.
2015
Noakes, Lucy. December 2015: Research Seminar. ‘An Ordinary Heroism’: British Cultural Memory of the Second World War in the early 21st Century’, International Workshop, Commemorating World War Two and the Politics of Memory, Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. Invited participant.
Noakes, Lucy. Invited speaker, ‘The Emotional Economy of Death in Wartime Britain’, AHRC Public Workshop on Culture and Conflict, Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA. November 2015:
Noakes, Lucy. Public Lecture: ‘A Broken Silence: Mass Observation and Armistice Day in 1930s Britain’, The Keep Archive Centre, Brighton. November 2015.
Noakes, Lucy. ‘’Deep England’: Britain, the Countryside and the Second World War, North American Conference on British Studies, Little Rock, USA. November 2015.
Noakes, Lucy. Keynote Lecture: Gender, Memory and the Centenary of the Great War, Gender and the Great War, University of Portsmouth, UK. October 2015.
Abigail Wincott, research paper, 'Rustling something up: frugal foodyism in the lifestyle media', Arts and Humanities Research Festival, University of Brighton, Oct 2015.
Carpenter-Latiri, Dora. September-October 2015 London P21 Gallery Event at ‘Autonomy of self ‘exhibition, ‘Rejecting violence with the lens in former Ottoman territories’. Transformed Cities and the Family Album.
Noakes, Lucy. Invited speaker. ‘Telling Tales about the Blitz: Men, Women and Memories of Civil Defence in Britain’, Gender, Memory and War in the Anglo-American World, University of Mississippi, USA. September 2015.
Graham Dawson, “Imagined Futures, Damaged Pasts: Temporalities, Subjectivities and the Politics of 'Post-conflict' Transition in Northern Ireland”, at the “Ireland: Shared Futures?” international conference, Université Rennes II, Rennes, France, 10-12 September 2015.
Noakes, Lucy. Keynote Lecture: Cultural Memory and the Second World War, Cultural Memory Conference, Greenwich University, UK. June 2015.
Noakes, Lucy. Plenary speaker, War and Post-War, Conference, University of Kent, UK. May 2015.
Graham Dawson, invited speaker, “Storytelling, historical reconciliation and the politics of memory in the Irish peace process”, Irish Studies Seminar, Université Rennes II, Rennes, France, 30 April 2015.
Carpenter-Latiri, Dora. Tunisian women of the book’ University of Brighton, ‘Legacies of the Avant-Garde: Fairmont Hotel, Toronto, Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention (April 30-May 3, 2015)
Graham Dawson, invited keynote speaker, “Memory, the afterlife of emotion, and ‘post-conflict’ temporalities in conflict transformation after the Irish Troubles”, at ‘Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory: Transitions and Transformations’, international conference, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 31 March–2 April 2015.
Graham Dawson, invited speaker, “Storytelling, historical reconciliation and the politics of memory in the Irish peace process”, Memory Studies Seminar, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 30 March 2015.
Garikoitz Gómez Alfaro, “What time is radical history? A rough guide to critical time”, What is Radical History?, Birkbeck University, London, 24 March 2015.
Abigail Wincott, public talk, 'Allotment chic and heritage vegetables’, Hastings History House, March 2015.
Garikoitz Gómez Alfaro, “Enduring injustices and politics of time in post-conflict Derry/Londonderry (N. Ireland)", Arts and Humanities Research Forum, University of Brighton, 25 February 2015.
Abigail Wincott, research paper, ‘Top chefs are going wild: heritages of food and lifestyle in the 21st century’. Heritage in the 21st Century symposium, The Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories, Brighton, Feb 2015.
Carpenter-Latiri, Dora. 2014-2015 Rome (Villa Borghese) and Venice (Biennale): ‘Torsion’ ‘Turbulence’ exhibition (Benetton-‘Imago Mundi’ collection), dedicated to post-Revolution Tunisia and sponsored by Benetton
2014
Graham Dawson, invited speaker, ‘The Politics of Memory: History and Commemoration of War and Conflict’, Leicester CND 'Memories in Conflict' project, the Unitarian Church, Leicester, 8 December 2014.
Lucy Noakes, Research paper on 'The search for peace in interwar Europe' delivered to symposium on Peace and Diplomacy at British Embassy, Helsinki, Finland, November 2014. Attended by diplomats, policy makers and conflict resolution specialists from Britain and Finland.
Lucy Noakes, Public Lecture by invitation, 'Burying the People of the People's War: Death, the State and Intimacy in Second World War Britain', to the 'War and Intimacy' Lecture Series organised by the George L. Mosse program and Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison USA, October 2014.
Garikoitz Gómez Alfaro: ‘Portbou as memoryscape: politics of the past on Europe's periphery’, at the International MEFROP Seminar, ‘European Memories on the Pyrenees border: History, heritage, politics and cultural models’, organised by Université de Perpignan Via Domitia; GIS IPAPIC; Association Trajectoires; The Exile Memorial Museum (MUME); University of Barcelona Solidarity Foundation (FSUB); European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), at University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France, October 9th–11th 2014.
Lucy Noakes, Research paper on remembrance in the 1930s delivered to Anglo American Conference, Institute for Historical Research, London, July 2014.
Lucy Noakes, Research paper on death and grief in Second World War Britain delivered to War: An Emotional History Conference, British Academy, July 2014.
Lucy Noakes, Research paper on gender and women's military clothing in the First World War delivered to AHRC Tailored Trades' workshop, Exeter, July 2014, subsequently made available via a podcast.
Graham Dawson, invited speaker, ‘War and its Emotional Legacies: Roundtable’, at ‘War: An Emotional History’, British Academy conference, British Academy, London, 10–11 July 2014.
Garikoitz Gómez Alfaro, “The (Chrono)politics of haunted spaces in post-Franco Spain", Spaces of Memory & Performance: Trauma, Affect, Displacement | University of East London, 20-21 June 2014.
Graham Dawson, invited speaker, “Afterwards: Space, Time and Subjectivity in ‘Post-conflict’ Cultures”, ‘Governing Through the “Post–”: Post-Disaster, Post-Conflict, Post-Crisis?’ workshop, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, 18 June 2014.
Graham Dawson, invited speaker, “The Afterlife of Emotions and Post-conflict Temporalities: The Case of the Northern Ireland Troubles”, ‘History of Emotions’ seminar series, University of Oxford, 10 June 2014.
Lucy Noakes. Lecture for the LSE/Churchill Centre Annual Winston Churchill Commemorative Lecture, LSE London, 'Churchill as post-war political icon', April 2014. (This led to a subsequent invitation to sit as an Advisor to the Churchill Archive, University of Cambridge and to act as Research Advisor for a forthcoming [January 2015] BBC documentary on Churchill's legacy).
Garikoitz Gómez Alfaro, "The redistribution of the sensible. Mapping ecologies of memory through Participative Action Research", Cultural Memory, Trauma and Affect working Group, School of Advances Studies, University of London, 19 March 2014.
Graham Dawson, invited speaker, ‘Storytelling in the Irish Peace Process’, in the ‘Dealing with the Legacies of the Past’ panel, ‘The Promise of Peace in Northern Ireland’ conference, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 14 March 2014. (Closing event of ‘The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, 15 Years On: Revisiting the Promise of Peace’ project, supported by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust, 2013–14).
Garikoitz Gómez Alfaro, invited speaker, 'Towards a critical ecology of memory: notes on the relationship between space, affect, power and the past', CMNH Seminar Series 2013-14, Grand Parade, University of Brighton, 26 February 2014.
Carpenter-Latiri, Dora. November-December 2014 ‘Tunisian women of the book’ University of Brighton, ‘Legacies of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Writings 1960-2014’.
2013
Lucy Noakes, keynote address, “ 'Gentle in Manner, Resolute in Deed’: Women in the British Army in the Postwar Years”, Women's History Network Annual Regional Conference, University of Worcester, 2013.
Lucy Noakes, keynote address, 'Gender, Grief and Mourning in Wartime', Lessons of War Conference, Lancaster University, 2013.
Lucy Noakes, invited speaker, 'Burying the Civilian Dead of the Second World War', University of Manchester History Research Seminar, 2013.
Graham Dawson “Sites of Memory, Spaces of Fear and the Culture of 'Historical Reconciliation' in 'Post-conflict' Belfast’, at ‘Memory, Conflict and Space’ conference, Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University, 10-12 July 2013.
2012
Lucy Noakes, keynote address, 'What Does Britain Mean to You? Mass-Observation, National identity and the English in the Second World War', Fighting For Britain? Negotiating Identities in Britain During the Second World War Conference, Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars, University of Edinburgh, 2012.
Lucy Noakes, 'The Management of the War Dead in Second World War Britain', 'Atrocity and Aftermath Panel', North American Conference on British Studies, Montreal, 2012.
Lucy Noakes, 'Mass-Observation and Memorials': Commemorating the Second World War in 1940s Britain', Landscapes of War interdisciplinary workshop, Academia Belgica, Rome, 2012.
Lucy Noakes, 'No More Useless Lumps of Stone: Mass-Observation and War Memorials' Mass-Observation 75th Anniversary Conference, 2012.
Lucy Noakes, 'Gender, Citizenship and Civil Defence in 1930s Britain', Women's History Network Annual Conference, University of Cardiff, 2012.
Lucy Noakes, invited speaker, 'Second World War Memorials in Britain', War and Remembrance Symposium, National Memorial Arboretum, 2012.
Graham Dawson, “Sites of Memory, Spaces of Fear and the Culture of 'Historical Reconciliation' in 'Post-conflict' Belfast”, at ‘Engaging the Other: Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition’ conference, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 5-8 December 2012.
Deborah Philips, ‘The metonymic icons of carnival site’, paper delivered by invitation to CMNH to the 4th International Forum of Design as a Process, at the Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 19th–22nd September 2012.
Graham Dawson, Invited lecturer, "Memory, Trauma and Language in the Northern Ireland Conflict", at the 13th International Summer School on Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, INCORE [International Institute of Conflict Research], University of Ulster, 18-22 June 2012.
Graham Dawson, Invited speaker, "Sites of Memory, Spaces of Fear and the Dark Heritage of Violent Conflict in 'Post-conflict' Belfast", for the panel "Deconstructing the Dark: A Critical Approach to Dark Heritage" (organised by the Heritage Research Group, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge), at "The Re/theorisation of Heritage Studies", Association of Critical Heritage Studies inaugural conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 5-8 June 2012.
Graham Dawson, Invited speaker, "Making Peace with the Past? Memory, Conflict Transformation and the Problem of 'Closure' in the Irish Troubles", at the History Seminar, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 20 February 2012.
Graham Dawson, Invited plenary panelist, "Historical Justice and Memory" conference (organised by Historical Justice and Memory Research Network), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 14-17 February 2012.
2011
Graham Dawson, Invited speaker, "The Desire for Justice, Psychic Reparation and the Politics of Memory in 'Post-conflict' Northern Ireland", at "Narratives of Victimhood in Post-conflict Northern Ireland" seminar (in ESRC Seminar Series: "The Politics of Victimhood"), Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, 9 December 2011.
Graham Dawson, Invited speaker, "The Desire for Justice, Psychic Reparation and the Politics of Memory in 'Post-conflict' Northern Ireland", at the Psychoanalysis and History Seminar 2010- 2011, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 30 March 2011.
Graham Dawson, Invited speaker, "Silence, Memory and the Violent Past: Fictions of the Troubles in the Irish Peace Process", English Literature Research Seminar 2010-11, School of Humanities, University of Brighton, 16 March 2011.
Graham Dawson, Invited speaker, "Panel 3: Representation: How Do We Record and Represent Difficult Memories?", at "Representing Memories from Conflict", One-day Symposium at the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster, Belfast, 25 February 2011.
Lucy Noakes, “ 'Serve to Save': Gender, Citizenship and Civil Defence in 1930s Britain”, Annual Conference of the Social History Society, University of Manchester, 2011.
Lucy Noakes, 'War on the Web: Gender and the Memory of the Second World War', 15th Tri-Annual Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, University of Massachussetts, USA, 2011.
2010
Lucy Noakes, ‘Death, Mourning and Citizenship in World War Two Britain’, History Symposium, University of Sydney, 2010.
Lucy Noakes, ‘Public Writing, Private Trauma: Memories of the Blitz in the Digital Age’, Historical Research Series, Monash University, 2010.
Lucy Noakes, ‘Gendered Memories of the Second World War’, Women, War and Remembrance Symposium, National Memorial Arboretum, 2010.
Lucy Noakes, ‘Life Writing, Memory and War on the Web’, 7th International Auto/Biography and Life Writing Conference, University of Sussex, 2010.
Graham Dawson, Invited participant, 'Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity', Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London, February-October 2010; including invited speaker, "Legacies of Violence and the War over Memory in the Irish Peace Process", at Closing Conference: Fraternité, University of London, 28-29 October 2010.
Graham Dawson, "The Desire for Justice, Psychic Reparation and the Politics of Memory in 'Post-conflict' Northern Ireland", at 'Ireland and Victims: Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation?' conference, University of Rennes 2, France, 9-11 September 2010.
Graham Dawson, "The Desire for Justice: Life Stories of Violence, Discourses of Victimhood and the Politics of Memory in 'Post-conflict' Northern Ireland", at 'Life Writing and Intimate Publics', The International Auto/Biography Association Conference, University of Sussex, 28 June - 1 July 2010.
Graham Dawson, Invited speaker, "Victims, Justice and the Politics of Memory in the Irish Peace Process", at ‘Bloody Sunday and the Saville Inquiry’, Annual Symposium of the London Irish Studies Seminar, King's College London, 25 June 2010.
Graham Dawson, Invited keynote speaker: "Imaginative Geographies and Contested Memories: Problems of Representation across the Psychic and Political 'Peace-lines' of 'Post-conflict' Northern Ireland", at 'Conflicting Views: Visual Culture, Conflict and Northern Ireland' conference, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Republic of Ireland, 9-11 June 2010.
Graham Dawson, Invited speaker, ‘Memory Today’ seminar, in the ‘Conversations and Disputations’ series, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Stewart House, University of London, 11 June 2010.
2009
Graham Dawson, "The Desire for Justice, Psychic Reparation and the Politics of Memory in 'Post-conflict' Northern Ireland", at 'Beyond Reconciliation: Dealing with the Aftermath of Mass Trauma and Violence' conference, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2-6 December 2009.
Graham Dawson, Invited roundtable discussant, "Roundtable Dialogue with Archbishop Desmond Tutu," at 'Beyond Reconciliation: Dealing with the Aftermath of Mass Trauma and Violence' conference, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2-6 December 2009.
Lucy Noakes, 'Femininity and Home Defence: Women's Work on British Anti-Aircraft Batteries in the Second World War, 'Femmes, Conflits et Pouvoir' Conference at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France, October 2009.
Graham Dawson, Invited keynote speaker, "Masculinity, State Violence, and the Political Psychology of Military Extirpation: Reflections on the Israeli Assault on Gaza, 27 December 2008 - 17 January 2009," at the 'Men at War: Masculinities, Identities and Cultures' conference organised by the Group for War and Culture Studies, University of Swansea, 10-11 September 2009.
Lucy Noakes, invited speaker, ‘Cultural memory in 21st century Britain', at the 'Myths and the Military Conquest of Air and Sea' British-German Conference, University of Oldenburg, Germany, 23-25 April 2009.
Graham Dawson, Invited speaker, " 'Popular Memory': Interactions between 'Public' and 'Private' in the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting", at the 'Myths and the Military Conquest of Air and Sea' British-German Conference, University of Oldenburg, Germany, 23-25 April 2009.
Graham Dawson, Invited speaker, "Trauma, Memory, Politics: The Present Past in the Irish Troubles", at 'War, Bombing, and Trauma: World War Two and Comparative Perspectives', a workshop for the AHRC-funded programme ‘Bombing, States, and Peoples in Western Europe, 1940-1945’, University of Reading, 13 March 2009.
Lucy Noakes, '"Hitler Couldn't Get Us Down!": Remembering and Forgetting the Blitz in 21st century Britain', 2009 Porter-Fortune Symposium: The Civilian Experience of Bombing in the World Wars, University of Mississippi, USA, 2009.