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MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES CONFERENCE

University of Bristol, 3-6 September 2008

Preliminary Programme

Thursday, 4th September 2008

9.30am - 11.30am: Contemporary military landscapes

• Shelley Egoz (Lincoln University, NZ) and Tim Williams (UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Jerusalem), 'Co-existent landscapes: military integration and civilian fragmentation'
• Jala Makhzoumi (American University of Beirut), 'Refuge, prospect and monitored: conceptions of militarized landscapes in South Lebanon
• Jean Martin (Department of National Defence, Canada), ‘Militarized landscapes in Afghanistan since 2002: Canada and NATO bases in Kabul and Kandahar'
• Rachel Woodward (University of Newcastle) ‘Being, becoming and remaining militarized: Norwegian military landscapes and the photographs of Ingrid Brook and Carina Hedén'

11.30am - 1.00pm: 'Greening of the military?'

• Philippe Boulanger (Paris-Sorbonne University), 'Protection of the environment and armies in France: stakes, realizations and limits at the beginning of the 21st century'
• Marianna Dudley (University of Bristol), 'The Greening of the MOD'
• Chris Pearson (University of Bristol), '"Khaki conservation" in trans-national perspective'

1.00pm - 2.00pm: lunch

2.15pm – 3.45pm: Military landscapes in the contemporary United States

• William Doe and Tracy Wager (Colorado State University), 'Inculcating an environmental stewardship ethic in US army leaders and soldiers: education, awareness, integrated training and operational contexts'
• Susan Enscore (US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Champaign, Illinois), 'Boots, tanks and planes: how military mission shaped U.S. installation landscape development'
• William Goran (ERDC) and William Doe (Colorado State University), 'US military land management, 1970s to the present'
• Timothy Hayden (ERDC), 'US military installations as bioreserves: crossroads for conservation and military mission’ Larry Pater (ERDC), ‘Training noise management: balancing mission capability and environmental quality'

4.15pm - 6.00pm: Surprising nature

• Julia Adeney Thomas (University of Notre Dame), 'The exquisite corpse and Korea's DMZ'
• Mary Cablk (Desert Research Institute, Reno), 'Experiencing nature in military landscapes: if a bomb drops on the desert do we still call it wilderness?'
• Malcolm Draper (University of KwaZulu, Pietermaritzburg), 'Militarizing nature: patterns in a century of Southern African conservation'
• Rob Lambert (University of Nottingham), 'Watched over as never before: the militarization of Britain’s raptorial landscapes'

Friday, 5th September 2008

Field trip to Salisbury Plain Army Training Estate, Wiltshire
Presentation by Richard Osgood (Environmental Support Team, Defence Estates, Westdown Camp) Tour of the range.

Saturday, 6th September 2008

9.30am - 11.00am: Opposing military presence

• Tim Cole (University of Bristol), 'The "ghost villages" of Epynt, Imber, Tyneham and narratives of loss'
• Amy Holmes (Johns Hopkins University), 'Malign Maneuvers: war games and the Greens in the American Sector of West Germany'
• Joy Parr (University of Western Ontario) and graduate student, 'Creating a militarized landscape: Canadian Forces Base at Gagetown'

11.30am - 1.00pm: De-militarized landscapes

• Josef Dufek (Charles University in Prague), 'Quantitative analysis of land-cover development in the former military area of Mlada, Czech Republic'
• David Havlick (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), 'Militarization, conservation and US base transformations'
• Lia Shimada (University College, London), 'Demilitarizing Divis Mountain: new narratives of place and identity in the Northern Irish peace process'

2.15pm - 3.15pm: Military bodies and the landscape

• Matthew Farish (University of Toronto), 'The Lab and the land: overcoming the Arctic in Cold War Alaska'
• Kathryn Shively (University of Virginia), 'Fighting in "Dante’s Inferno": changing perceptions of Civil War combat in the Spotsylvania wilderness from 1863 to 1864'

3.30pm - 5.30pm: Heritage and memory

• Brian Black (Penn State University, Altoona), 'Addressing the nature of Gettysburg: "addition and detraction" in preserving an American shrine'
• Sophia Davis (University of Cambridge), 'Military landscapes and secret science: mythical and empirical histories of the Suffolk coast, 1935-1975'
• Ryan Edgington (Temple University), 'Fragmented atoms: nature, commemoration, and the making of the Trinity Site'
• Sam Edwards (University of Lancaster), 'From haunted landscapes to heritage landscapes: American airfields and battlefields in Britain and France, 1970 to the present'
• Thao Tran (Pau University) and Jean-Paul Amat (Paris-Sorbonne University), 'Construction of the militarized landscapes of South Viet-Nam: between natural cicatization and cultural valorization'

5.45pm - 6.15pm
Concluding reflections: Edmund Russell (University of Virginia)