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In late October
Georgetown University co-hosted the Fourth Conference of the
International Society for First World War Studies (www.firstworldwarstudies.org),
a worldwide academic society with over 200 members. The conference
met over three days at the National Archives, the German Historical
Institute, and the University. A full day of panel discussions
in Riggs Library included the topics “Memory of War,” Mobilization
and Demobilization,” and “Women of War.”
In collaboration with Professor Elizabeth Prelinger of the
Art, Music and Theater Department, the Special Collections
Research Center assembled a wide range of WWI-related art,
posters and manuscripts in Lauinger Library’s Murray
Room. Highlights shown to the 60-some scholars by Art Curator
LuLen Walker included:
- Lester Hornby’s 1918 etching Wire Cutters, currently
on display in the Fairchild Gallery;
- nineteen advertising, mobilization, and recruitment posters
including one of R. M. Flagg’s famous “I want YOU” Uncle
Sams;
- an early proof copy of the Treaty of Versailles (Paris
Peace Treaty) of 1919;
- a letter from soldier and poet Joyce Kilmer to his wife,
with drafts of poems published after his death in the Second
Battle
of the Marne; and
- a selection from Professor Prelinger’s World War
I collection.
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